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The Calbayog Sanitarium and Hospital is located on the island of Samar, the
Philippines third largest island. You can
see a
MAP HERE. Calbayog as a city has an area that is the fifth largest in
the country. In addition, it's strategically located
and is the only city
on the island.
While much of the surrounding area that the hospital cares for is economically
challenged, Calbayog is the center of
trade for the upper-half of the population
on the island having trading and transportation routes including the Pan
Philippine Highway that transects the city.
What areas are served by the
Calbayog Sanitarium
and Hospital
at present?
The Calbayog Sanitarium and Hospital is one of the few hospitals serving the
region. The hospital serves the city of Calbayog, and the municipalities
both in the upper-half Western area (including Tarangnan, Gandara, Sto Nino
and
Almagro) and the Southeastern area
of Northern Samar (including San Isidro, San
Antonio, Allen and others).
We our vital to the region.
With a combined population of over 500,000 people, Calbayog plays a very
important role
to the surrounding areas and especially to those patients who
could not afford the additional traveling expense in going to other medical
facilities. Moreover, as civil infrastructure improves our hospital
outreach would greatly expand covering more a much larger area including up to Catarman and nearby towns that would place up to 1,000,000 people for our
catchment area.
Can you
describe the hospital's physical
plant and
layout?
The Calbayog Hospital is a one story 300 sq meter building consisting of one
main hospital building, a kitchen cum canteen (not operational now), an OPD
extension and conference room, and a maintained shed-garage. In addition,
we have 4 staff houses
with 2 needing major repairs. And while we have 25 beds we are
rated as a 15 bed hospital. Also situated on the property is the Calbayog
Adventist Multi-grade School and
the Calbayog Adventist Center.
There are two major wings of the hospital that interconnect to each other. The
first constructed in 1984 and the rest in 1998.
All in all there are 2
operating rooms and a DR
in one; a small emergency room; 1 private non-air condition
room, a small dental office, laboratory room, and OPD Annex and conference room,
a nursing service and chaplain office.
We have rooms supposedly for an ICU and NICU, but do not have needed equipment
except for an oxygen tank and gauge. Moreover, the integrity of the newly
constructed wing needs work and the old wing constructed with wooden beams and
trusses needs termite treatment. Ideally, with outside donations from good
people like you, we could re-roof the compound and add steel trusses.
The last major addition to the hospital was way back in 1998 through a grant
provided by the Adventist Health System then
headed by Ms. Thelma Robles-Selerio.
This wing presently houses our Pediatric, Obstetric, Male and Female wards, 2
private rooms and a business office.
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Most, if not just about all our medical equipment
is fully depreciated. Our x-ray machines are over 30 years
old, our chemistry analyzer is not owned by the hospital but is
lent to us by and Adventist owned medical reagent supplier.
Frankly, the hospital is woefully ill equipped compared to other
Adventist hospitals.
Moreover, we don't have an ambulance or adequate transportation
equipment. Our assets in the form of capital
equipment is
nearly non-existent and basic items like EKG and a pulse
oximeter are in the process of frequent repair
and in most
instances, many items need to be replaced. Any
donations to
our needy hospital would be
greatly appreciated!
Unlike the more progressive area of the Philippines, the Adventist population
in
Samar has not produced enough health professionals to serve as a manpower
tool where the hospital could get its personnel needs.
At present, only the nurse aids, pharmacist (about to retire), housekeeping and
maintenance personnel are from
Calbayog or Samar. Only one of our staff
nurses is from the area due to a manpower shortage. Our physician and
nurses come from other parts of the country. However, some non-Adventist
physicians bring their patients to the hospital.
A practice that began
several years ago and was maximized during the last three years.
How could we address the manpower component?
Finding missionary minded physicians (that would serve locally) is difficult.
Nevertheless, we should definitely get
Adventist physicians to serve either as
staff or visiting consultants. Nursing staffing may well be a coordinated
and a collaborative effort among the AHS/A hospitals in the region.
Opening of the hospital in terms of training with residents, medical interns and
nurses would have to be done. Nursing
and Medical schools are in the
region of Calbayog and might have to be tapped for both the hospital to grow and
to
augment its manpower current needs.
Seemingly the challenges are insurmountable
and ceaseless. However, with God nothing is impossible.
Our challenges are summarized below:
1. Improved Hospital Administrative and Business
processes. While our goal is
to create greater revenue and to be a sustainable member of the AHS/A system,
our business processes need to be examined and improvements implemented.
2. Improved Physical Plant and Equipment.
There has to be a calculated improvement in the physical plant itself. An
expanded ER is necessary, a more patient friendly OPD complex with more offices
for physicians, relocation of the OR
and NICU and ICU ensuring it's aptly
equipped and staffed, and a chapel for worship services and prayer.
3. Manpower Development and Sustainability.
We have to attract physicians. The core of which should be committed SDAs
who we believe would integrate their faith and spiritual values into their
medical practice here. However, it's
imperative we can offer them decent
housing, not a shack, pay them opportunities to grow.
Once a nucleolus is made this core group could influence the other physicians.
Nurses also need a program that would provide training and work experience
knowing they would serve here at least for 2 to 5 years.
4. Open the hospital for affiliation with medical and
nursing schools. With the
increasing number of medical schools offering nursing and the allied medical
sciences, opportunities are opening-up that would allow this hospital to become
a venue for affiliation. In doing so, we also would boost our manpower
pool from which we could select future workers.
5. Increased Marketing, Outreach and Community Services.
An effort has to be made to look for and attract more
paying patients and yet
expand services to the economically less fortunate and needy. Contacts
must be established
with the community, friendships reinvigorated, and
participation in the community and city activities would be areas of address.
6. Spiritual Rejuvenation and Value Formation among
the Hospital Staff. With the
economic difficulties besetting the Philippines, we have to turn to God to guide
us asking for His blessings with the condition that we fully submit our lives to
HIM. At the same time, we have to have an atmosphere of trust and
camaraderie among the hospital workers knowing that we are going through life
together and committed to a greater service and calling to glorify our God.
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What is the financial status of the hospital,
is it surviving?
The operations for the year of 2003 showed a net income of about
P/250,000 from a revenue base of P/6.5M. This was vastly
different from the scenario of a P/200,000 loss last 2002.
Yet, from the point of view of the staff, the hospital
has been
able to pay the salaries of its workers in time. However,
because of the spending patterns of the past,
particularly about
a decade and half ago, the hospital is indebted to the Central
Philippine Union Conference in the
amount of P/4.2M.
Thanks be to God we are regularly remitting payments back to
them.
Yes, we have created a photo album for others to see what our
part of the world looks like and what we do here at the Calbayog
Sanitarium and Hospital. Please click the link below to
see our photos.
See our PHOTO ALBUM
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 We
have setup an iKobo account
http://www.ikobo.com so that you can securely use your Visa
or MasterCard credit card and easily send us a donation. We then will
mail you back a receipt. Please allow up to 2 weeks for
our mailed receipt to reach you.
It's free to get your own iKobo account
and takes just a minute
to setup. IKobo is very popular worldwide and cheaper then
Western Union to send money abroad. I Kobo will cost you
about $6.50 U.S. per $100 you donate. You will need to know
our iKobo email address to send us any donation. Our iKobo
email address is:
calbayogsan@yahoo.com
In
addition, you are welcome to use Western Union
http://www.westernunion.com to send us funds. Just
send the funds to
Calbayog Sanitarium.
Below is our local Western Union Agent. Thank you for your
support.
You may also send a tax-deductible
check directly to our U.S. Church Conference
headquarters. A receipt will be sent back to you
upon request.
Make your check out to the 'Seventh-day Adventist
Church' and write on the check in your notes on the
check that it is for the 'Calbayog Sanitarium and
Hospital.' All donations you send go completely to
our hospital and it's healing ministry.
Mail Your Tax Deductible Check To:
GENERAL CONFERENCE OF SDA
DONATIONS "Calbayog
Sanitarium & Hospital"
12501 OLD COLUMBIA PIKE
SILVER SPRING, MD. 20904
USA
MEDICAL EQUIPMENT DONATIONS:
 If you have any medical equipment or supplies you wish to donate
to our hospital, you are welcome to
contact ADRA
PHILIPPINES as they can assist you with information about
shipping, including the possibility of
helping with shipping costs, and other valuable information.
They are a valuable resource, worldwide.
You can learn more about this worldwide organization at:
ADRA INTERNATIONAL.
If you need help at all, or would like to mail us a personal
check or money order to help our hospital, please
contact us
to see our mailing address. Thank you very much for your
help and love gifts.
Prior to 2003, many of the Adventist hospitals in the
Philippines were governed by a collection of various unions and
conferences. However, today the Calbayog Sanitarium and
Hospital is part of the umbrella network of hospitals governed
by the the Adventist Health System/Asia (AHS/A)
system.
The AHSA has brought in common standards, more managerial
inputs, better knowledge of industry practices
and challenges
and coordinated efforts to help us.
AHS/A, a department of the South Asia Pacific Division, is
headed by
Mr. Don Weidemann.
However, the Philippines is divided into three zones, and
Calbayog belonging to the central Philippines, is headed by the
Regional Vice President Mr. Rufo Gesapo. Mr. Gesapo is
also the President of
Bacolod Sanitarium and Hospital and the Chair of
the Board
of Calbayog Sanitarium and the
H.W. Miller Memorial Hospital.
Within the Calbayog Hospital is the Administrative Council which
is composed of the President, the Vice President for Finance,
Ms. Jo Ann Amparo, MBA CPA, Pharmacist Ms. Linda Balag, the
District Pastor, Pastor Rolly Ronato and the
Nursing Service
Coordinator, Mr. Rey Booz LaPoore.
The creation of our
website was donated by Mark Bishop and
Adventist Domains provides our free web hosting and
maintenance services.
Mailing Address
and Telephone:
CONTACT US HERE:
Calbayog Sanitarium &
Hospital
National Road
San Policarpo, Calbayog City
Philippines
Telephone: (055) 209-1323, 209-1150
U.S. Dial: (011) (63)-55-2091323 or (63)-55-2091150
VP Finance - Jo Ann Amparo
(for donations too)
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