MANILA, Philippines — Hospitals in Metro Manila placed under critical status in terms of bed capacity solely for COVID-19 patients increased to 43 from the previous 30 reported last week, based on the latest data from the Department of Health (DOH) as of March 23.
The recent data also bared that 152 facilities have submitted their data and were categorized based on their occupancy levels while only 150 hospitals were listed in the health department’s COVID-19 tracker last March 20.
Meanwhile, hospitals classified under high-risk status decreased to 19 from 22.
Of the hospitals under “critical” level, 15 have already reached 100 percent bed occupancy, namely:
- A. Zarate Hospital
- Air Force General Hospital
- Allied Care Experts (Ace) Medical Center Valenzuela
- Bernardino General Hospital I
- Chinese General Hospital Medical Center
- F.Y. Manalo Medical Foundation, Inc.
- FEU- Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation Inc.
- Las Piñas Doctors Hospital
- Makati Medical Center
- Metropolitan Medical Center
- Novaliches District Hospital
- Rosario Maclang Bautista Hospital
- Sta. Ana Hospital
- University of Perpetual Help Dalta Medical Center, Inc.
- Valenzuela Citicare Medical Center Timog Hilaga Providence Group, 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 their 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 the bed utilization rate is less than 60 percent.
The bed occupancy rate for the whole of Metro Manila was placed under moderate level with 61.5 percent, or 5,144 out of the 8,362 total beds occupied.
INQUIRER.net analyzed the most available data, which is on March 23, 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
- Air Force General Hospital – 100 percent
- Allied Care Experts (Ace) Medical Center Pateros – 93.8 percent
- Allied Care Experts (Ace) Medical Center Valenzuela – 100 percent
- Bernardino General Hospital I – 100 percent
- Bernardino General Hospital II – 85.7 percent
- Capitol Medical Center Inc. – 90.9 percent
- Chinese General Hospital Medical Center – 100 percent
- Commonwealth Hospital and Medical Center – 96.9 percent
- East Avenue Medical Center – 86.7 percent
- F.Y. Manalo Medical Foundation, Inc. – 100 percent
- FEU- Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation Inc. – 100 percent
- Las Piñas Doctors Hospital – 100 percent
- Lung Center of the Philippines – 96.3 percent
- Makati Medical Center – 100 percent
- Mandaluyong City Medical Center – 87 percent
- MCU-FDT Medical Foundation Hospital – 93.8 percent
- Medical Center Muntinlupa – 92 percent
- Medical Center Taguig – 89.3 percent
- Metro North Medical Center and Hospital – 95.2 percent
- Metropolitan Medical Center – 100 percent
- National Kidney Transplant Institute – 88.3 percent
- Novaliches District Hospital – 100 percent
- Ospital ng Makati – 93.8 percent
- Ospital ng Muntinlupa – 97.1 percent
- Ospital ng Sampaloc – 93.5 percent
- Pacific Global Medical Center – 88.9 percent
- Pasig City Children’s Hospital Child’s Hope – 96.2 percent
- Quezon City General Hospital – 86.7 percent
- Quirino Memorial Medical Center – 90.8 percent
- Rosario Maclang Bautista Hospital – 100 percent
- St. Luke’s Medical Center, Quezon City – 96 percent
- St. Luke’s Medical Center, Taguig – 88.9 percent
- Sta. Ana Hospital – 100 percent
- Taguig Pateros District Hospital – 90 percent
- The Medical City – 94.4 percent
- Tondo Medical Center – 90.8 percent
- Unihealth Parañaque Hospital and Medical Center, Inc. – 94.4 percent
- University of Perpetual Help Dalta Medical Center, Inc. – 100 percent
- Valenzuela Citicare Medical Center Timog Hilaga Providence Group, Inc. – 100 percent
- Veterans Memorial Medical Center – 96.8 percent
- Victoriano Luna Medical Center – 99.4 percent
- World Citi Medical Center – 86.1 percent
High-risk
- Adventist Medical Center – 71.8 percent
- Allied Care Experts (Ace) Medical Center Quezon City – 79.2 percent
- Amang Rodriguez Memorial Medical Center – 82.6 percent
- Army General Hospital – 75.7 percent
- Caloocan City Medical Center – 70 percent
- Cardinal Santos Medical Center – 70.9 percent
- Dr. Fe Del Mundo Medical Center – 82.1 percent
- Dr. Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial Hospital – 72.8 percent
- Las Piñas General Hospital and Satellite Trauma Center – 82.4 percent
- Marikina Valley Medical Center – 79.5 percent
- Medical Center Manila – 83 percent
- National Children’s Hospital – 77.8 percent
- Pasay General Hospital – 75.9 percent
- Pasig Doctors Medical Center Inc. – 70.6 percent
- Research Institute for Tropical Medicine – 75.9 percent
- San Juan De Dios Educational Foundation – 83.3 percent
- St. Clare’s Medical Center – 80 percent
- The Premier Medical Center – 75 percent
- University of the Philippines Philippine General Hospital – 71 percent
Moderate
- De Los Santos Medical Center – 60 percent
- Diliman Doctors Hospital Inc. – 69.7 percent
- HolyLife Hospital – 66.7 percent
- Las Piñas City Medical Center – 68 percent
- Mary Johnston Hospital Inc. – 61.5 percent
- Philippine Heart Center – 67.6 percent
- U.E.R.M. Memorial Hospital – 65.6 percent
Safe
- Alabang Medical Center – No occupied beds
- Alabang Medical Clinic – No occupied beds
- Alabang Medical Clinic Las Piñas branch – 12.5 percent
- Alabang Medical Clinic Muntinlupa – No occupied beds
- Alfonso Specialist Hospital – No occupied beds
- Asian Hospital – 46.4 percent
- Bermudez PolyClinic Hospital – No occupied beds
- Calalang General Hospital – No occupied beds
- Christ The King Medical Center Unihealth Las Piñas Inc. – 25 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 Ocampo Memorial Medical Center – No occupied beds
- Divine Heart Medical Service and Development Cooperative Hospital – 14.3 percent
- Dr. Jesus Delgado Memorial Hospital – 50 percent
- Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital – 6.6 percent
- Dr. Montano G. Ramos General Hospital Corporation – No occupied beds
- Dr. Sabili Health Services Corporation – No occupied beds
- E. Zarate Hospital – 33.3 percent
- Fairview General Hospital – No occupied beds
- Fatima University Medical Center Corporation – 26.1 percent
- Foundation of Our Lady of Peace Mission Inc. Our Lady of Peace Hospital – 18.5 percent
- Gat Andres Bonifacio Memorial Medical Center – 38 percent
- Gen. Miguel Malvar Medical Research Foundation Inc. – No occupied beds
- Hospital of the Infant Jesus Medical Center – 42.9 percent
- JP Sioson General Hospital and Colleges Inc. – No occupied beds
- Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center – 56.3 percent
- Justice Jose Abad General Hospital – 13.3 percent
- Manila Doctors Hospital – No occupied beds
- Manila Naval Hospital – 41.7 percent
- Marikina Doctors Hospital and Medical Center – 58.3 percent
- Marikina St. Vincent General Hospital Inc. – No occupied beds
- Martinez Memorial Hospital Inc. – 33.3 percent
- Mary Chiles General Hospital Inc. – 41.8 percent
- MCPC St. Therese of Lisieux Doctors Hospital – No occupied beds
- Medical Center Parañaque – 5.9 percent
- Mission Hospital – 45.5 percent
- National Center for Mental Health – 10.2 percent
- Navotas City Hospital – 52.9 percent
- Nodado General Hospital – No occupied beds
- North Caloocan Doctors Hospital – No occupied beds
- Novaliches General Hospital – 41.7 percent
- Olivarez General Hospital – 47.4 percent
- Ospital ng Malabon – No occupied beds
- Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center – 51.1 percent
- Ospital ng Parañaque – No occupied beds
- Ospital ng Tondo – 27.8 percent
- Our Lady of Grace Hospital Inc. – No occupied beds
- Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Inc. – 58.7 percent
- Pasig City General Hospital – 39.1 percent
- Perpetual Succor Hospital and Maternity Inc. – No occupied beds
- Philippine Children’s Medical Center – 39.7 percent
- Philippine Orthopedic Center – 58.3 percent
- Pope John Paul II Hospital and Medical Center – 42.1 percent
- Providence Hospital – 37.5 percent
- Queensberry Hospital – No occupied beds
- Quezon Institute – No occupied beds
- Recuenco General Hospital Inc. – No occupied beds
- Rizal Medical Center – 44.4 percent
- Salve Regina General Hospital – No occupied beds
- San Juan Medical Center – 53.3 percent
- San Lazaro Hospital – 48 percent
- San Lorenzo Hospital Health Management – No occupied beds
- San Lorenzo Ruiz Women’s Hospital – 46.2 percent
- SDS Medical Center – 27.3 percent
- Seamen’s Hospital – 55 percent
- South Superhighway Medical Center – No occupied beds
- St. Anthony Medical Center of Marikina, Inc. – No occupied beds
- St. Camillus Medical Center – 46.2 percent
- St. Jude General Hospital and Medical Center – 30 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. – 54.2 percent
- Trinity Woman and Child Center “The Birthplace” – 20 percent
- UHBI – Parañaque Doctors Hospital, Inc. – 50 percent
- United Doctors Medical Center – 10 percent
- University of Santo Tomas Hospital – 27.2 percent
- Valenzuela Medical Center – 51.6 percent
- Villarosa Hospital, Inc. – No occupied beds
- VRP Medical Center – 16.2 percent
- VT Maternity Hospital – No occupied beds
- Word of Hope General Foundation, Inc. – No occupied beds
The DOH on Tuesday recorded 5,867 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total active coronavirus cases in the country to 86,200.
Of the tally, 578,461 patients survived while 12,992 succumbed to the respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
The country’s total COVID-19 caseload is 677,653.
On Monday, the health department reported another all-time high single-day tally of 8,019 new infections in the country.
JPV