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Patient Care Facilities

    In-Patient Capacity
    650-Bed Capacity
    • Critical Care Beds
    • Suites
    • Private Rooms
    • Semi-Private Rooms
    • Ward Beds
    • Pediatric Beds
    • Nursery/Newborn Bassinets

    Out-Patient Capacity
    • 24-hour emergency care
    • With adult and pediatric 24-hour consultant-based triage system
    • Over 4,300 procedures per day
Human Resources
    • Seasoned medical and administrative management team
    • Expertise of over 1,700 physicians
    • Almost 2,600 non-medical employees
Other Services/Facilities
    A. Critical Care Units
    • The Jonathan Y. Dy Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit
    • Coronary Care Unit
    • Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
    • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
    • Acute Stroke Unit
    • Neurological Critical Care Unit
    • Epilepsy Monitoring Unit

    B. Special Nursing Units
    • Main Operating and Recovery Rooms
    • Cardiovascular Operating and Recovery Rooms
    • Ophthalmology Operating Rooms
    • Delivery Room
    • Nursery
    • Advanced Reproductive Care Unit
    • Blood & Marrow Transplant Unit
    • Emergency Department
    • Ambulatory Care Unit
    • High-Risk Pregnancy Unit
Milestones

1903 A free dispensary clinic for the outpatient treatment of the poor was opened by the Episcopal Mission at Calle Magdalena, Tondo, Manila. It was named Dispensary of St. Luke the beloved Physician.
1905 A modest nine-bed ward was opened.
1907 The University Hospital of 30 beds plus eight emergency beds was inaugurated on October 23.
1910 Capacity of the hospital was increased to 52 beds, mostly charity patients.
1912 The University Hospital was renamed St. Luke's Hospital to differentiate it from the University of the Philippines Hospital.
1959 The medical and paramedical team of St. Luke's Hospital moved to its new home in Cathedral Heights, Quezon City. It was a 150-bed hospital with eight suites, 32 bassinets, a recovery room within the operating room, the 1st Philippine Neuro-Psychiatric unit, the first cobalt therapy unit in a private hospital, and a physiotherapy department.
1975 The hospital was spun off into an independent non-stock, not-for-profit corporation governed by a Board of Trustees headed by Atty. William H. Quasha as Chairman, President and CEO.
1984 The Board of Trustees renamed the institution St. Luke's Medical Center.
1986 Mr. Jose F.G. Ledesma was appointed as Executive Director and Dr. Arsenio C. Cantos as Medical Director.
1994 Opening of St. Luke's College of Medicine-William H. Quasha Memorial (SLCM-WHQM)
1996 Mr. Robert F. Kuan was elected as Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Mr. Jose F.G. Ledesma as President and Chief Executive Officer.
2001 St. Luke's became an international affiliate of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and accorded the honor of being affiliated with the medical schools of Columbia University College Physicians and Surgeons and the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University.
2003 Accredited by the Joint Commission International (JCI). St. Luke's is the first hospitalin the Philippines and the second in Asia to get accreditation.
2005 February 1, Groundbreaking for St. Luke's Medical Center-Bonifacio Global City. Signing of Affiliation Agreement with Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

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