13 of 130 Metro hospitals in ‘critical’ zone as DOH revises COVID-19 bed occupancy levels

Hospital COVID-19 bed occupancy rate for the whole of Metro Manila is at 41.5 percent, as of Oct. 28, 2020. /DOH COVID-19 tracker

MANILA, Philippines — Thirteen out of 130 hospitals in the National Capital Region are in the “critical zone” for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) facilities while the Department of Health (DOH) modifies its classification for the utilization rate of COVID-19 beds, recent records from the health agency showed.

Of the 13 hospitals in the “critical” zone, seven have reached a 100 percent utilization rate in their COVID-19 facilities:  Allied Care Experts (Ace) Medical Center Valenzuela,  Alabang Medical Clinic, Bernardino General Hospital I, Bernardino General Hospital II, Holy Life Hospital, Mary Chiles General Hospital Inc., and the Novaliches District Hospital.

Meanwhile, the DOH also revised its classification for occupancy of COVID-19 beds in health centers to critical, high risk, moderate and safe from the previous classification of danger, warning, and safe levels.

With these new classifications, the DOH said hospitals that are in the critical zone have a bed occupancy rate of more than 85 percent.

“High risk” health facilities are those with an occupancy rate of 70 percent but is not more than 85 percent.

Hospitals that are in the moderate level have a 60 percent up to less than 70-bed occupancy percentage.

Hospitals with a “safe” classification mean that their bed utilization rate is less than 60 percent. It also means they are not in danger in case of a surge of COVID-19 cases.

Compared to the previous classification, a hospital is “safe” if the occupancy rate is equal or less than 30 percent.

Hospitals are identified as in a “warning” level if their COVID-19 beds are 30 to 70 percent occupied. Lastly, a “danger” level means that the bed occupancy rate has reached more than 70 percent.

The changes in classification were approved by the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID), DOH health promotions, and communications service director Dr. Beverly Ho said.

“This classification is of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases and this was approved last Sept. 30,” Ho told reporters in a DOH online media briefing this Friday.

For the whole of Metro Manila, the bed occupancy rate was downgraded to a “safe” level with 41.5 percent as 2,809 out of 6,772 total beds are utilized.

Last Oct. 21, the bed occupancy rate of Metro Manila hospitals were classified as “warning level” with  43.7 percent as 2,982 beds out of 6,827 total beds are occupied.

INQUIRER.net analyzed the most available data, dated Oct. 28, 2020, based on the DOH COVID-19 tracker.

The story aims to show the preparedness of hospitals in Metro Manila if there is a sudden increase in coronavirus cases. However, only hospitals in Metro Manila that have data on COVID-19 beds allocated for coronavirus patients were included in this story.

Also, the data only records hospital beds solely for COVID-19 patients and not the overall total hospital beds.

Critical 

1. Allied Care Experts (Ace) Medical Center Valenzuela – 100 percent
2. Alabang Medical Clinic – 100 percent
3. Bernardino General Hospital I –  100 percent
4. Bernardino General Hospital II – 100 percent
5. Holy Life Hospital – 100 percent
6. Las Piñas City Medical Center – 88 percent
7. Las Piñas General Hospital and Satellite Trauma Center – 85.9 percent
8. Mary Chiles General Hospital Inc. – 100 percent
9. National Kidney Transplant Institute – 90.5 percent
10. Novaliches District Hospital – 100 percent
11. Philippine Heart Center – 86.7 percent
12. Taguig Pateros District Hospital – 86.8 percent
13. Victoriano Luna Medical Center – 95.6 percent

High risk

1. Allied Care Experts (Ace) Medical Center Pateros – 81.3 percent
2. Asian Hospital – 78.9 percent
3. East Avenue Medical Center – 72.6 percent
4. Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center – 71.1 percent
5. Makati Medical Center – 73.9 percent
6. National Children’s Hospital – 80.6 percent
7. Ospital ng Muntinlupa – 83.3 percent
8. St. Victoria Hospital – 71.4 percent

Moderate

1. Capitol Medical Center Inc. – 66.7 percent
2. Mandaluyong City Medical Center – 60 percent
3. Marikina St. Vincent General Hospital Inc. – 60 percent
4. Ospital ng Makati – 61.7 percent
5. Rizal Medical Center – 69.2 percent
6. Tricity Medical Center, Inc. – 62.5 percent
7. University of Perpetual Help Dalta Medical Center, Inc. – 69.2 percent
8. Veterans Memorial Medical Center – 65.7 percent

Safe 

1. A Zarate Hospital – 50 percent
2. Adventist Medical Center – 28 percent
3. Air Force General Hospital – 39.8 percent
4. Alabang Medical Clinic Las Piñas branch – 12.5 percent
5. Alabang Medical Center – No occupied beds
6. Alabang Medical Clinic Muntinlupa – No occupied beds
7. Alfonso Specialist Hospital – No occupied beds
8. Allied Care Experts (Ace) Medical Center Quezon City – 57.9 percent
9. Amang Rodriguez Memorial Medical Center – 39 percent
10. Beato Caulian Hospital – No occupied beds
11. Bermudez Polyclinic Hospital – No occupied beds
12. Caloocan City Medical Center – 35.6 percent
13. Cardinal Santos Medical Center – 38.5 percent
14. Chinese General Hospital Medical Center – 28.9 percent
15. Christ The King Medical Center Unihealth Las Piñas Inc. – 25 percent
16. Commonwealth Hospital and Medical Center – 43.7 percent
17. D.T. Protacio Hospital – No occupied beds
18. De Los Santos Medical Center – 10.5 percent
19. De Ocampo Memorial Medical Center – No occupied beds
20. Diliman Doctors Hospital Inc.  – 23.1 percent
21. Dr. Fe Del Mundo Medical Center – 19.4 percent
22. Dr. Jesus Delgado Memorial Hospital – 6.3 percent
23. Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital – 11.8 percent
24. Dr. Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial Hospital  – 19.4 percent
25. Dr. Montano G. Ramos General Hospital Corporation – No occupied beds
26. Dr. Victor R. Potenciano Medical Center – 48.8 percent
27. E. Zarate Hospital – 33.3 percent
28. F.Y. Manalo Medical Foundation, Inc. – 50 percent
29. Fatima University Medical Center Corporation – 14.3 percent
30. FEU- Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation Inc. – 44.4 percent
31. Foundation of Our Lady of Peace Mission Inc. Our Lady of Peace Hospital – No occupied beds
32. Gat Andres Bonifacio Memorial Medical Center – 47.5 percent
33. Gen. Miguel Malvar Medical Research Foundation Inc. – No occupied beds
34. Hospital of the Infant Jesus Medical Center – 50 percent
35. Justice Jose Abad General Hospital – 37.5 percent
36. Las Piñas Doctors Hospital – 57.9 percent
37. Lung Center of the Philippines – 52.3 percent
38. Manila Doctors Hospital – 10 percent
39. Manila Naval Hospital – No occupied beds
40. Marikina Doctors Hospital and Medical Center – 33.3 percent
41. Marikina Valley Medical Center – 40.5 percent
42. Mary Johnston Hospital Inc. – 37.5 percent
43. MCPC St. Therese of Lisieux Doctors Hospital -No occupied beds
44. MCU-FDT Medical Foundation Hospital – 50 percent
45. Medical Center Manila – 29.8 percent
46. Medical Center Muntinlupa – 50 percent
47. Medical Center Taguig – 8 percent
48. Medical Center Parañaque – No occupied beds
49. Metro-North Medical Center and Hospital – 45.5 percent
50. Metropolitan Medical Center – 28.3 percent
51. Mission Hospital – 40 percent
52. National Center for Mental Health – 4.8 percent
53. Navotas City Hospital – 28.6 percent
54. Novaliches General Hospital – 20 percent
55. Olivarez General Hospital – 50 percent
56. Ospital ng Malabon – 23.3 percent
57. Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center – 15.7 percent
58. Ospital ng Sampaloc – 33.3 percent
59. Ospital ng Tondo – 40 percent
60. Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Inc. – 13 percent
61. Pacific Global Medical Center – 50 percent
62. Pasay General Hospital – 24 percent
63. Pasig City Children’s Hospital Child’s Hope – 45.2 percent
64. Pasig City General Hospital – 50 percent
65. Pasig Doctors Medical Center Inc. – 25 percent
66. Perpetual Succor Hospital and Maternity Inc. – No occupied beds
67. Philippine Heart Center – 29.2 percent
68. Philippine Orthopedic Center – 4.5 percent
69. Pope John Paul II Hospital and Medical Center – 8.7 percent
70. Providence Hospital – 50 percent
71. Quezon City General Hospital  – 26.7 percent
72. Quirino Memorial Medical Center – 55.8 percent
73. Research Institute for Tropical Medicine – 16.1 percent
74. Rosario Maclang Bautista Hospital – 50 percent
75. Salve Regina General Hospital – No occupied beds
76. San Juan De Dios Educational Foundation – 36.7 percent
77. San Juan Medical Center – 51.2 percent
78. San Lazaro Hospital – 24 percent
79. San Lorenzo Hospital Health Management – No occupied beds
80. San Lorenzo Ruiz Women’s Hospital – 32.5 percent
81. SDS Medical Center – 9.1 percent
82. Seamen’s Hospital – No occupied beds
83. St. Camillus Medical Center – 30.8 percent
84. St. Clare’s Medical Center  – 16.7 percent
85. St. Jude General Hospital and Medical Center  – 10 percent
86. St. Luke’s Medical Center, Quezon City – 15.5 percent
87. St. Luke’s Medical Center, Taguig – 40 percent
88. Sta. Ana Hospital  – 37.5 percent
89. The Medical City – 50.7 percent
90. The Premier Medical Center – No occupied beds
91. Tondo Medical Center – 51.5 percent
92. U.E.R.M. Memorial Hospital – 57.5 percent
93. UHBI – Parañaque Doctors Hospital, Inc. – 27.8 percent
94. Unihealth Parañaque Hospital and Medical Center, Inc. – 39.5 percent
95. United Doctors Medical Center – No occupied beds
96. University of Santo Tomas Hospital – 51.7 percent
97. University of the Philippines Philippine General Hospital – 48.6 percent
98. Valenzuela Citicare Medical Center Timog Hilaga Providence Group, Inc. – 20 percent
99. Valenzuela Medical Center – 45.9 percent
100. VT Maternity Hospital – No occupied beds
101. VT Maternity Hospital – 42.1 percent

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