By ALFREDO P HERNANDEZ
THE Jose Panganiban Primary
Hospital Service Cooperative (JPPHSC) is gearing up to build the second-floor
in its hospital to be able to rise to Level 1 category, hopefully next year,
and provide more medical and healthcare services.
This was stressed by cooperative
board chairperson Priscilla G Mariano in a comment carried in the 2013
financial report of the cooperative.
She said the proposed new section
of the cooperative hospital would need at least Php2 million to complete and
that amount has already been set aside.
Noting that JPPHSC is at present
a primary health care facility, Mariano stressed that the facility has to upgrade
to Level 1 as required by the rules and regulations governing the new
classification of hospitals and other health facilities in the country.
She warned that failure to do so
would mean a 30% reduction of benefits the facility would get from PhilHealth
as determined by the number of patients it serves.
“We need to install the second
floor so we could provide services in general medicine, pediatrics, OB-Gyne and
surgery.
“There’s also a need for
ancillary services such as isolation service emergency and out-patient
services, surgical, maternity services, dental clinic, blood station, secondary
and clinical laboratory, first level X-ray and pharmacy.”
Mariano said that said services
would require corresponding medical officers, nurses and medical staff and the
required facilities and equipment.
To meet this need, the hospital
is expected to hire more personnel.
Mariano recalled that as early as
2011, the cooperative had already planned to build the second floor to meet the
need for more rooms with the increasing number of patients.
However, such plan was revised as
the new rules set out by the Department of Health required more services and
not just increased number of rooms.
Mariano stressed such service
expansion has been supported by the cooperative co-owners who approved the
allocation of Php500,000 for the project.
The additional Php1.5 million was
provided last year through board resolution. The fund will come from the savings
posted in 2012.
Last year, the cooperative
hospital admitted 3,185 patients. Of this, 1,360 were paying patients, 550
members, 1,157 indigents with the rest making up different patient
categories.
During the period, the hospital
discharged (alive) 3,221 patients, while
total in-patients who died were 11.
The hospital also said the seven
leading causes of deaths were acute myocardial infarction, severe pneumonia,
cerebrovascular accident, central nervous system infection, status asthmaticus,
placental retention and acute gastroenteritis with moderate dehydration.
During the period in review, the
hospital attended to 7,765 outpatients (including those who revisited for
further treatment/checkups), for an average of 21 patients per day.
The most common cases brought in
included fever (857); cough and colds (411); dizziness (259); cough (270); LBM
and vomiting (231); difficulty in breathing (215); headache (138); abdominal
pain (122); chest pain (107); and lumbar/lower back pain (71).
During the period, the hospital
performed a total of 914 minor surgeries on cases that included lacerated
wounds, abrasion wounds and dog bites, among others.
Also during the year, the
hospital dispensed with (sold) drugs and pharmaceutical items worth about P6
million.
It also earned P1.2 million in
professional fees/consultation fees; P159,241 in X-ray fees; P5.13 million and
room and board; 481,713 in laboratory fees; 49,000 in ECG fees and P205,186 in
emergency fees.
The cooperative hospital’s
operation is managed by medical director Dr Amador C Salen.
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