After years of being downgraded to a Level I hospital, the Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital is back as a Level II hospital, a status comparable to private hospitals.
Provincial Administrator Arthur Tolcidas said this achievement is the fulfilment of one of Governor Chaco Sagarbarria’s goals, which is to improve the quality of health care in the province.
Tolcidas said being a Level 2 hospital will mean that it can expand Philhealth coverage and we it will have more training departments to add to the accreditation given by the Philippine College of Physicians for the NOPH Internal Medicine Department.
Dr. Marc Angelo Llosa, NOPH chief of hospital, said getting accredited as training facility will improve the quality of service. NOPH will be like a private hospital in terms of service. It will benefit patients who cannot afford private hospitals. This will also set the ground for the hospital to become a level 3 hospital.
“When we expanded our area to build bigger and better buildings, we also expanded our medical staff. We have several private practitioners—specialists– who have affiliated with NOPH. If you talk of quality, that’s very good,” Llosa said.
Dr. Mark Arbolado, NOPH hospital administrator, said the hospital has added more comfort rooms for patients, bantays and the general public and periodically keep these clean with the addition of more janitors.
In line with its policy that no one is turned away, patients can also be admitted for free or for a very minimal cost through several modes, said Hospital Administrator Mark Arbolado.
If a patient is a Philhealth member, he or she is assessed upon arrival to see up to how much assistance can be availed of . If a patient is not a Philhealth member, within three days of your admission, you will be given Philhealth coverage for one year;
There’s also the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office and the Sagar, which is responsive to the needs of patients that we at NOPH cannot address and there is also the assistance from the Department of Social Welfare and Development, where patients do not anymore have to go to the DSWD office but is being processed at the NOPH.
If they cannot avail of any of the aforementioned options, qualified patients may avail of the Medical Assistance for Indigent and Financially Incapacitated Patients Program (MAIP).
