COVID-19 bed capacity: 30 of 150 NCR hospitals under critical status — DOH
Portion of two wards at UP-PGH dedicated to COVID-19 patients, which were finished in just five days. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)
MANILA, Philippines — Thirty out of 150 hospitals in Metro Manila were placed under critical status in terms of bed capacity solely for COVID-19 patients while 22 were listed under the high-risk status, based on the latest date from the Department of Health (DOH) as of March 20.
The figure for hospitals classified as critical increased from the previous 23, while hospitals listed under high-risk decreased from 23 last March 17.
Of the hospitals under critical status, 13 have already reached 100 percent bed occupancy, namely:
- A Zarate Hospital
- Bernardino General Hospital I
- Commonwealth Hospital and Medical Center
- East Avenue Medical Center
- F.Y. Manalo Medical Foundation, Inc.
- FEU- Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation Inc.
- HolyLife Hospital
- Makati Medical Center
- Metro North Medical Center and Hospital
- Metropolitan Medical Center
- Rosario Maclang Bautista Hospital
- Sta. Ana Hospital
- Unihealth Parañaque Hospital and Medical Center, Inc.
The DOH classifies occupancy levels for COVID-19 beds in health centers as either critical, high risk, moderate, and safe.
Under the critical level, hospitals have already reached more than 85 percent of its bed occupancy for COVID-19 patients.
Hospitals are classified as high risk if 70 percent but not more than 85 percent of its COVID-19 beds are occupied while those with a COVID-19 bed capacity of from 60 to 70 percent rate are classified as moderate.
Hospitals fall under the safe level if bed utilization rate is less than 60 percent.
The bed occupancy rate for the whole of Metro Manila remains at the safe zone with 54.3 percent, or 4,460 out of the 8,207 total beds occupied.
INQUIRER.net analyzed the most available data, which is on March 20, 2021, based on the DOH’s COVID-19 tracker.
This article is aimed at showing how prepared Metro Manila hospitals are, should there be a surge in COVID-19 infections.
Only hospitals in Metro Manila, however, that have data on COVID-19 beds allocated for the treatment of coronavirus patients were included in this article.
Critical
- A Zarate Hospital – 100 percent
- Bernardino General Hospital I – 100 percent
- Commonwealth Hospital and Medical Center – 100 percent
- Diliman Doctors Hospital Inc. – 85.3 percent
- East Avenue Medical Center – 100 percent
- F.Y. Manalo Medical Foundation, Inc. – 100 percent
- FEU- Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation Inc. – 100 percent
- HolyLife Hospital – 100 percent
- Las Piñas Doctors Hospital – 93.1 percent
- Lung Center of the Philippines – 96 percent
- Makati Medical Center – 100 percent
- Metro North Medical Center and Hospital – 100 percent
- Metropolitan Medical Center – 100 percent
- Ospital ng Makati – 96.8 percent
- Ospital ng Muntinlupa – 96.7 percent
- Pacific Global Medical Center – 86.7 percent
- Pasig City Children’s Hospital Child’s Hope – 96.8 percent
- Quirino Memorial Medical Center – 87.7 percent
- Research Institute for Tropical Medicine – 91.3 percent
- Rosario Maclang Bautista Hospital – 100 percent
- San Juan De Dios Educational Foundation – 96.7 percent
- St. Luke’s Medical Center, Taguig – 89.6 percent
- Sta. Ana Hospital – 100 percent
- The Medical City – 86.8 percent
- Unihealth Parañaque Hospital and Medical Center, Inc. – 100 percent
- University of Perpetual Help Dalta Medical Center, Inc. – 88.6 percent
- University of the Philippines Philippine General Hospital – 91.9 percent
- Valenzuela Citicare Medical Center Timog Hilaga Providence Group, Inc. – 92.9 percent
- Victoriano Luna Medical Center – 98.4 percent
- World Citi Medical Center – 94.4 percent
Ospital ng Makati. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO
High-risk
- Adventist Medical Center – 70.6 percent
- Allied Care Experts (Ace) Medical Center Pateros – 81.3 percent
- Allied Care Experts (Ace) Medical Center Quezon City – 83.3 percent
- Army General Hospital – 80 percent
- Bernardino General Hospital II – 71.4 percent
- Cardinal Santos Medical Center – 70.7 percent
- Chinese General Hospital Medical Center – 71 percent
- Christ The King Medical Center Unihealth Las Piñas Inc. – 75 percent
- Dr. Fe Del Mundo Medical Center – 79.5 percent
- Las Piñas General Hospital and Satellite Trauma Center – 83.3 percent
- Medical Center Manila – 83 percent
- Medical Center Taguig – 77.8 percent
- National Children’s Hospital – 72.2 percent
- National Kidney Transplant Institute – 83.1 percent
- Novaliches District Hospital – 84.4 percent
- Ospital ng Malabon – 80 percent
- Pasay General Hospital – 78.8 percent
- Philippine Heart Center – 76.9 percent
- Providence Hospital – 73.3 percent
- St. Luke’s Medical Center, Quezon City – 81.9 percent
- Taguig Pateros District Hospital – 76 percent
- Tondo Medical Center – 73.1 percent
Moderate
- Allied Care Experts (Ace) Medical Center Valenzuela – 61.1 percent
- Amang Rodriguez Memorial Medical Center – 63 percent
- Las Piñas City Medical Center – 68 percent
- Mandaluyong City Medical Center – 67.4 percent
- Marikina Valley Medical Center – 61.4 percent
- Mary Johnston Hospital Inc. – 69.2 percent
- Seamen’s Hospital – 60 percent
- St. Clare’s Medical Center – 66.7 percent
- The Premier Medical Center – 68.8 percent
- VRP Medical Center – 61.1 percent
Safe
- Air Force General Hospital – 46 percent
- Alabang Medical Center – No occupied beds
- Alabang Medical Clinic – 16.7 percent
- Alabang Medical Clinic Las Piñas branch – 12.5 percent
- Alabang Medical Clinic Muntinlupa – No occupied beds
- Alfonso Specialist Hospital – No occupied beds
- Asian Hospital – 53.6 percent
- Bermudez PolyClinic Hospital – No occupied beds
- Calalang General Hospital – No occupied beds
- Caloocan City Medical Center – 50 percent
- Capitol Medical Center Inc. – 46.2 percent
- Cruz-Rabe Maternity and General Hospital – No occupied beds
- Cure and Care Maternity Hospital OPC – No occupied beds
- D.T. Protacio Hospital – 25 percent
- De Los Santos Medical Center – 52.5 percent
- De Ocampo Memorial Medical Center – No occupied beds
- Divine Heart Medical Service and Development Cooperative Hospital – 14.3 percent
- Dr. Jesus Delgado Memorial Hospital – 56.3 percent
- Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital – 4 percent
- Dr. Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial Hospital – 40.2 percent
- Dr. Montano G. Ramos General Hospital Corporation – No occupied beds
- Dr. Sabili Health Services Corporation – No occupied beds
- E. Zarate Hospital – 50 percent
- Fairveiw General Hospital – No occupied beds
- Fatima University Medical Center Corporation – 29.3 percent
- Foundation of Our Lady of Peace Mission Inc. Our Lady of Peace Hospital – 55.6 percent
- Gat Andres Bonifacio Memorial Medical Center – 40.5 percent
- Gen. Miguel Malvar Medical Research Foundation Inc. – No occupied beds
- Hospital of the Infant Jesus Medical Center – 27.6 percent
- JP Sioson General Hospital and Colleges Inc. – No occupied beds
- Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center – 51.5 percent
- Justice Jose Abad General Hospital – 15.6 percent
- Manila Doctors Hospital – No occupied beds
- Manila Naval Hospital – 8.3 percent
- Marikina Doctors Hospital and Medical Center -m54.5 percent
- Marikina St. Vincent General Hospital Inc. – 16.7 percent
- Martinez Memorial Hospital Inc. – No occupied beds
- Mary Chiles General Hospital Inc. – 49.1 percent
- MCPC St. Therese of Lisieux Doctors Hospital – No occupied beds
- MCU-FDT Medical Foundation Hospital – 50 percent
- Medical Center Muntinlupa – 56 percent
- Medical Center Parañaque – 15.8 percent
- Mission Hospital – 50 percent
- National Center for Mental Health – 5 percent
- Navotas City Hospital – 50 percent
- Nodado General Hospital – No occupied beds
- North Caloocan Doctors Hospital – No occupied beds
- Novaliches General Hospital – 33.3 percent
- Olivarez General Hospital – 35 percent
- Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center -32.2 percent
- Ospital ng Parañaque – No occupied beds
- Ospital ng Sampaloc – 58.1 percent
- Ospital ng Tondo – 46.7 percent
- Our Lady of Grace Hospital Inc. – No occupied beds
- Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Inc. – 54.3 percent
- Pasig City General Hospital – 37.8 percent
- Pasig Doctors Medical Center Inc. – 56.3 percent
- Perpetual Succor Hospital and Maternity Inc. – No occupied beds
- Philippine Children’s Medical Center – 31.3 percent
- Philippine Orthopedic Center – 50 percent
- Pope John Paul II Hospital and Medical Center – 37 percent
- Quezon City General Hospital – 51.5 percent
- Quezon Institute – No occupied beds
- Recuenco General Hospital Inc. – No occupied beds
- Rizal Medical Center – 38.5 percent
- Salve Regina General Hospital – No occupied beds
- San Juan Medical Center – 48.9 percent
- San Lazaro Hospital – 46 percent
- San Lorenzo Hospital Health Management – 33.3 percent
- San Lorenzo Ruiz Women’s Hospital – 50 percent
- SDS Medical Center – 9.1 percent
- St. Anthony Medical Center of Marikina, Inc. – No occupied beds
- St. Camillus Medical Center – 53.8 percent
- St. Jude General Hospital and Medical Center – 20 percent
- St. Martin de Porres Charity Hospital – No occupied beds
- St. Victoria Hospital – 28.6 percent
- Sta. Teresita General Hospital – No occupied beds
- Tricity Medical Center, Inc. – 45.8 percent
- Trinity Woman and Child Center “The Birthplace” – No occupied beds
- U.E.R.M. Memorial Hospital – 56.7 percent
- UHBI – Parañaque Doctors Hospital, Inc. – 38.1 percent
- United Doctors Medical Center – No occupied beds
- University of Santo Tomas Hospital – 24.7 percent
- Valenzuela Medical Center – 50.8 percent
- Veterans Memorial Medical Center – 54.7 percent
- Villarosa Hospital, Inc. – 50 percent
- VT Maternity Hospital – No occupied beds
- Word of Hope General Foundation, Inc. – 25 percent
Due to the continuous increase in COVID-19 cases in the country, the Philippine Hospital Association (PHA) on Monday called for a reinforcement of healthcare workers from nurses who are currently employed in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Philippine National Police (PNP), and call centers.
According to PHA President Jaime Almora, nurses in hospitals are already exhausted.
The DOH on Sunday recorded 7,757 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total active coronavirus cases in the country to 73,072.
Of the tally, 577,754 patients survived while 12,968 succumbed to the respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
The country’s total COVID-19 caseload is 663,794.
On Saturday, the health department reported another all-time high single-day tally of 7,999 new infections in the country.
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