St. Luke's Medical Center - Global City

St. Luke's Medical Center – Global City
St. Luke's Medical Center, Inc.
Geography
Location Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines
Services
Helipad Yes
Beds 600
Links
Lists Hospitals in Philippines

Building details

General information
Opening 2010
Cost ₱9 billion
Technical details
Floor count Nursing Tower: 14
Medical Arts Building : 11
Design and construction
Architecture firm RR Payumo and Associates
Developer Makati Development Corporation
Other information
Parking 1,000 slots

The St. Luke's Medical Center – Global City is a hospital at the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is the sister facility of the hospital of the same name in Quezon City.

History

The hospital at the Bonifaco Global City is an off-shoot of the hospital of the same name in Quezon City which was established in 1903. In January 16, 2010 the hospital was inaugurated by then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.[1]

Architecture and design

The hospital was designed by architecture firm RR Payumo and Associates and the construction costed around ₱9 billion.[2] Makati Development Corporation was involved in the construction of the hospital.[3]

Upon its inauguration the health facility hosts a 14-storey nursing tower with a capacity of 600 beds, a helipad and a podium, along with a 11-storey medical arts building which can house clinics for 374 doctors and a ground floor with lobbies described as "hotel-like", and a multi-level parking with at least 1,000 parking slots.[1] The hospital's gross floor area is about 154,000 square meters (1,660,000 sq ft).[3]

Facilities

The hospital hosts 10 institutes dedicated to cancer, digestive and liver diseases, eyes, neurosciences, orthopedics and sports medicine, pathology, pediatrics and child care, pulmonary medicines, and radiology. It also has 18 operating rooms, five delivery rooms, imaging suites, ancillary outpatient services, critical care units, catheterization laboratory, OB-gynecology complex and post anesthetic care units.[1] The state-of-the-art center in Global City houses 10 institutes for the heart, cancer, neurosciences, digestive and liver diseases, eyes, orthopedics and sports medicine, pathology, pediatrics and child care, pulmonary medicines and radiology.[1]

Reception

United States based magazine, Healthcare Management News and Insights, list St. Lukes Medical Center - Global City as part of its "World’s Most Beautiful Hospitals" on its March 2012 issue where the hospital was ranked 11th out of the 25 listed. The hospitals were rated by the magazine's editors according to their interior and exterior features, as well as their "health-promoting" features. St. Lukes was only one of the three Asian hospitals on the list.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Torrevillas, Domini (16 January 2010). "St. Luke's rises on Global City". The Philippine Star. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  2. ↑ Subido, Joy Angelica (3 December 2016). "St. Luke's Medical Center: A look at the future of healthcare". The Philippine Star. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
  3. 1 2 "St. Luke's Medical Center - Global City". Makati Development Corporation. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  4. ↑ Carvajal, Nancy (10 April 2012). "St. Luke's rated among world's most beautiful hospitals". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 3 December 2016.

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