Baguio General Hospital

Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center
Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center
Geography
Location	Governor Pack Road, Baguio, Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines
Coordinates	16.4011°N 120.5960°E
Organization
Type	Government, charity
Services
Standards	ISO 9001:2015
Emergency department	24/7 available with specialist and subspecialist facilities
Beds	500 (To be increased to 800)[1]
Links
Website	www.bghmc.doh.gov.ph
Lists	Hospitals in the Philippines

Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC), also known as Baguio General Hospital (BGH), is a hospital in Baguio, Philippines. It is the largest government funded tertiary hospital in the Northern Luzon Region.[2]

Started in 1902 by American physician Dr. Eugene Stafford, as a sanatorium (at the site where the present SM City Baguio now stands), it grew into a hospital and was named as Baguio Hospital in 1907. Its name was changed to Baguio General Hospital in 1937, was bombed in World War II in 1945, and in 1967 following accreditation by the Philippine Medical Association and Philippine College of Surgeons, it started as a training center with residency programs for all branches of medicine[3] and remains so until today training residents, consultants, as well as interns and Medical/allied health science students of various universities around the country. On January 2017 BGHMC was named as an ISO 9001:2015 institution.[4] In 2018, President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte signed into law Republic Act 11084 on October 3, increasing the bed capacity of BGHMC from 500 to 800.[5][1]

References

Agoot, Liza (August 8, 2018). "Senate okays bill increasing Baguio hospital capacity to 800 beds". www.pna.gov.ph. Retrieved February 7, 2019.
"The Electives Network: Baguio General Hospital and Medical Centre". www.electives.net. Retrieved February 7, 2019.
"HISTORY BGHMC". Retrieved February 7, 2019.
"ENTRY NO. 1 – 7 AMAZING FACTS OF HOW BGHMC GREW THROUGH THE YEARS | BGHMC". August 8, 2017. Retrieved February 7, 2019.
Cawis, Redjie Melvic M. (October 15, 2018). "Pres. Duterte approves expansion of BGHMC, 3 other hospitals in N. Luzon". pia.gov.ph. Retrieved February 7, 2019.

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[agoot-1] Agoot, Liza (August 8, 2018). "Senate okays bill increasing Baguio hospital capacity to 800 beds". www.pna.gov.ph. Retrieved February 7, 2019.

[2] "The Electives Network: Baguio General Hospital and Medical Centre". www.electives.net. Retrieved February 7, 2019.

[3] "HISTORY BGHMC". Retrieved February 7, 2019.

[4] "ENTRY NO. 1 – 7 AMAZING FACTS OF HOW BGHMC GREW THROUGH THE YEARS | BGHMC". August 8, 2017. Retrieved February 7, 2019.

[5] Cawis, Redjie Melvic M. (October 15, 2018). "Pres. Duterte approves expansion of BGHMC, 3 other hospitals in N. Luzon". pia.gov.ph. Retrieved February 7, 2019.