Iloilo Mission Hospital

Iloilo Mission Hospital (also referred to as Mission Hospital, Mission or IMH) is a private tertiary, training and teaching hospital located in Jaro, Iloilo City, Philippines. It was established in 1901 by Joseph Andrew Hall, a Physician and missionary of the Presbyterian Foreign Mission Board, is the first Protestant and American founded hospital in the Philippines (Second American Hospital in Asia after the Canton Hospital in China).^[1] The hospital pioneered the Nursing Education in the Philippines through the establishment of the Union Mission Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1906, the present day Central Philippine University College of Nursing.^[2][3]

Iloilo Mission Hospital serves as the university hospital of Central Philippine University.^[1] It operates independently from Central Philippine University but administered by the university's board of trustees and personnels. Iloilo Mission Hospital predates CPU founding by four years.^[4]

Iloilo Mission Hospital serves as a teaching, training and laboratory hospital and facility for the university and the community in general for Medicine, Nursing, Medical Technology, Physical Therapy, Medical Social Work, Pharmacy, Nutrition and Dietetics, while the College of Theology (for its chaplaincy program).^[5][6]

In 2001, Iloilo Mission Hospital celebrated its centennial, commemorating its century of existence and its contribution since its founding in 1901 to the Philippine and American colonial history in the Philippines and in Asia as it pioneered the Nursing education in the Philippines, as the first Protestant founded hospital in the country and the second American hospital in Asia. The centennial building was inaugurated in the hospital area proper and the hospital acquisition of the Philips MX8000 CT Scan machine, the first of its kind in South East Asia^[7]

Iloilo Mission Hospital is accredited also for residency training program in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology and with Family Medicine and Surgery. Dr. Elmer Pedregosa serves as the current Hospital Director. Although founded by the Presbyterian missionaries, it is subsequently affiliated with the Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches, but independent.

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