COVID-19 beds: 16 NCR hospitals in critical level, 9 under full capacity — DOH

MANILA, Philippines — Out of the 16 hospitals in Metro Manila that were placed under critical status in terms of bed capacity solely for COVID-19 patients, nine have already reached 100 percent bed occupancy according to the Department of Health (DOH) as of May 12.

The hospitals that have reported full bed occupancy were:

A Zarate General Hospital
E Zarate Hospital
F.Y. Manalo Medical Foundation
Marikina Doctors Hospital and Medical Center, Inc.
Metro North Medical Center and Hospital Inc.
Philippine Orthopedic Center
Recuenco General Hospital, Inc.
Rosario Maclang Bautista General Hospital
VRP Medical Center

The figures are lower from the previous 27 hospitals classified as critical and 15 under full bed occupancy last May 5.

Meanwhile, around 15 hospitals were listed under the high-risk status. The figure is also lower than the 21 facilities reported last week.

The latest DOH information likewise bared that 156 facilities have submitted data and were categorized based on their occupancy levels.

In addition, around 64.12 percent or 772 of 1,204 total Intensive Care Units (ICU) beds solely for COVID-19 patients in Metro Manila hospitals are already in use, according to the same DOH data.

The health department also added that of the same date, 45.73 percent or 2,217 of 4,848 isolation beds, and 48.98 percent or 1,828 of 3,732 ward beds in NCR are likewise occupied.

Overall, it noted that the bed occupancy rate for the whole NCR has reached 49.2 percent, with 4,817 of the total 9,784 beds now in use. This is still lower than the recorded 54.5 percent overall bed occupancy rate last week

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 60 to 70 percent rate are classified as moderate.

Hospitals fall under the safe level if their bed utilization rate is less than 60 percent.

INQUIRER.net analyzed the latest most available data – May 12, 2021 – based on DOH’s COVID-19 tracker.

This article aims to show how prepared Metro Manila hospitals are, should there be a rush in COVID-19 infections in the region, which remains the epicenter of the health crisis in the Philippines.

However, only hospitals in Metro Manila that have information on COVID-19 bed allocation for the treatment of new coronavirus patients were included in this article.

Critical

A Zarate General Hospital – 100 percent
Bermudez Polymedic Hospital I – 90.9 percent
Bermudez Polymedic Hospital II – 85.7 percent
E Zarate Hospital -100 percent
F.Y. Manalo Medical Foundation – 100 percent
Marikina Doctors Hospital and Medical Center, Inc. – 100 percent
Metro North Medical Center and Hospital Inc. – 100 percent
National Kidney and Transplant Institute – 94.2 percent
Pasig City Children’s Hospital Child’s Hope – 97.1 percent
Philippine Orthopedic Center – 100 percent
Recuenco General Hospital, Inc. – 100 percent
Rosario Maclang Bautista General Hospital – 100 percent
Seamen’s Hospital – 85.7 percent
University of Perpetual Help Dalta Medical Center, Inc.  – 96.2 percent
Victoriano Luna Medical Center 87.1 percent
VRP Medical Center – 100 percent

High risk

Commonwealth Hospital and Medical Center – 79.4 percent
Diliman Doctors Hospital, Inc. – 71.9 percent
East Avenue Medical Center – 79.9 percent
Makati Medical Center – 78 percent
Marikina Valley Medical Center – 82.2 percent
National Children’s Hospital – 74.3 percent
Novaliches District Hospital – 81.3 percent
Ospital ng Muntinlupa – 77.7 percent
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Inc. – 76.4 percent
Quirino Memorial Medical Center – 75.5 percent
Research Institute for Tropical Medicine – 77.8 percent
St. Luke’s Medical Center – 76.1 percent
St. Luke’s Medical Center – Global City – 78.2 percent
Taguig-Pateros District Hospital – 72.5 percent
The Medical City – 75.5 percent
UP  Philippine General Hospital – 73.8 percent
World Citi Medical Center – 75 percent

Moderate

Allied Care Experts (ACE) Medical Center – Pateros, Inc. – 66.7 percent
Capitol Medical Center, Inc. – 69.6 percent
Cardinal Santos Medical Center – 67.9 percent
Christ the King Medical Center Unihealth Las Piñas, Inc. – 66.7 percent
Lung Center of the Philippines – 67.1 percent
Medical Center Muntinlupa, Inc. – 60.7 percent
Ospital ng Makati – 67.4 percent
Quezon City General Hospital – 63.3 percent
St. Clare’s Medical Center, Inc. – 66.7 percent
The Premier Medical Center – 68.8 percent
U.E.R.M Memorial Hospital – 65.8 percent
Unihealth Parañaque Hospital and Medical Center, Inc. –  62.5 percent
Valenzuela Medical Center – 60.9 percent
Veterans Memorial Medical Center – 60.5 percent

Safe

Acebedo General Hospital – No occupied beds
Adventist Medical Center Manila – 46.2 percent
Air Force General Hospital – 12 percent
Alabang Medical Center – No occupied beds
Alabang Medical Clinic – 22.2 percent
Alabang Medical Clinic Las Piñas Branch – No occupied beds
Alabang Medical Clinic Muntinlupa Branch – No occupied beds
Alfonso Specialist Hospital – No occupied beds
Allied Care Experts (ACE) Medical Center – Quezon City, Inc. – 56.7 percent
Allied Care Experts (ACE) Medical Center – Valenzuela, Inc. – 50 percent
Amang Rodriguez Memorial Medical Center – 43.1 percent
Army General Hospital – 18.3 percent
Asian Hospital Inc. – 35 percent
Bermudez Polymedic Hospital – No occupied beds
Calalang General Hospital – No occupied beds
Caloocan City Medical Center – 57.8 percent
Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center – 41.3 percent
Cruz-Rabe Maternity and General Hospital – No occupied beds
Cure and Care Maternity Hospital OPC – No occupied beds
De Los Santos Medical Center – 26.4 percent
De Ocampo Memorial Medical Center – No occupied beds
Divine Heart Medical Service and Development Cooperative Hospital – 33.3 percent
Dr. Fe Del Mundo Medical Center – 47.6 percent
Dr. Jesus C. Delgado Memorial Hospital – 31.3 percent
Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital – 9.1 percent
Dr. Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial Hospital – 38.1 percent
Dr. Montano G. Ramos General Hospital Corporation – 25 percent
Dr. Sabili Health Services Corporation – No occupied beds
Fairview General Hospital, Inc. – 30.8 percent
Fatima University Medical Center, Corporation – 50 percent
FEU – Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation, Inc. – 27.8 percent
Foundation of Our Lady of Peace Mission, Inc. – Our Lady of Peace Hospital – No occupied beds
Gat Andres Bonifacio Memorial Medical Center – 47 percent
Gen. Miguel Malvar Medical Research Foundation, Inc. – No occupied beds
Holylife Hospital – No occupied beds
Hospital of the Infant Jesus Medical Center – 18.6 percent
J.P. Sioson General Hospital and Colleges, Inc. – No occupied beds
Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center – 58.1 percent
Justice Jose Abad Santos General Hospital – 33.8 percent
Las Piñas City Medical Center – 48 percent
Las Piñas Doctors Hospital, Inc. – 54.5 percent
Las Piñas General Hospital and Satellite Trauma Center – 42.3 percent
Mandaluyong City Medical Center – 48.6 percent
Manila Doctors Hospital – 45.7 percent
Manila Naval Hospital – 3 percent
Marikina St. Vincent General Hospital, Inc. – No occupied beds
Martinez Memorial Hospital, Inc. – No occupied beds
Mary Chiles General Hospital, Inc. – 25.5 percent
Mary Johnston Hospital, Inc. – 30.6 percent
MCPC St. Therese of Lisieux Doctors Hospital – No occupied beds
MCU – FDT Medical Foundation Hospital – 29.2 percent
Medical Center Manila, Inc. – 44.8 percent
Medical Center of Taguig City, Inc. – 48.1 percent
Medical Center Parañaque, Inc. – 50 percent
Metropolitan Medical Center – 41.5 percent
Mission Hospital – 50 percent
National Center for Mental Health – 27.1 percent
Navotas City Hospital – 26.7 percent
Nodado General Hospital – 25 percent
North Caloocan Doctors Hospital, Inc. – No occupied beds
Novaliches General Hospital, Inc. – 50 percent
Olivarez General Hospital, Inc. – 35 percent
Ospital ng Malabon – 16.1 percent
Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center – 22 percent
Ospital ng Parañaque – 28 percent
Ospital ng Sampaloc – 47.2 percent
Ospital ng Tondo – 50 percent
Our Lady of Grace Hospital, Inc. – No occupied beds
Pacific Global Medical Center, Inc. – 44.1 percent
Pasay City General Hospital – 40.4 percent
Pasig City General Hospital – 50 percent
Pasig Doctors Medical Center, Inc. – 50 percent
Perpetual Succor Hospital & Maternity, Inc. – No occupied beds
Philippine Children’s Medical Center – 51.3 percent
Philippine Heart Center – 33.1 percent
Pope John Paul II Hospital and Medical Center Inc. – 26.8 percent
Protacio Hospital – No occupied beds
Providence Hospital, Inc. – 37.9 percent
Queensberry Hospital – No occupied beds
Quezon Institute – No occupied beds
Rizal Medical Center – 48.9 percent
Sabater General Hospital, Inc. – No occupied beds
Salve Reginal General Hospital, Inc. – No occupied beds
San Juan De Dios Educational Foundation Inc. – 42.6 percent
San Juan Medical Center – 41.3 percent
San Lazaro Hospital – 33.3 percent
San Lorenzo Hospital Health Management Co., Inc. – No occupied beds
San Lorenzo Ruiz General Hospital – 42.5 percent
SDS Medical Center – 40 percent
South Superhighway Medical Center – No occupied beds
St. Anthony Medical Center of Marikina, Inc. – No occupied beds
St. Camillus Medical Center – 7.7 percent
St. Christiana Maternity Hospital – No occupied beds
St. Jude General Hospital and Medical Center – No occupied beds
St. Martin De Porres Charity Hospital – No occupied beds
St. Victoria Hospital – No occupied beds
Sta. Ana Hospital – 48 percent
Sta. Teresita General Hospital – 20 percent
Tondo Medical Center – 40.2 percent
Tricity Medical Center, Inc. – 37.5 percent
Trinity Woman and Child Center “The Birthplace” – 50 percent
UHBI-Parañaque Doctors Hospital, Inc. – 53.8 percent
United Doctors Medical Center – 33.3 percent
University of Santo Tomas – 49.2 percent
Urology Center of the Philippines, Inc. – No occupied beds
Valenzuela Citicare Medical Center Timog Hilaga Providence Group, Inc.- 42.9 percent
Villarosa Hospital, Inc. – No occupied beds
VT Maternity Hospital – No occupied beds
Word of Hope General Hospital Foundation, Inc. – No occupied beds

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