St. Luke's Medical Center – Global City

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. Both are affiliated with the Episcopal Church of the Philippines.^[1]

St. Luke's Medical Center – Global City
St. Luke's Medical Center, Inc.
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Geography
Location	Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines
Coordinates	14°33′18″N 121°02′54″E / 14.555072°N 121.0482323°E / 14.555072; 121.0482323
Services
Beds	600
Helipad	Yes
Links
Website	www.stlukes.com.ph
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	First Balfour and Makati Development Corporation
Other information
Parking	1,000 slots

History

The hospital at the Bonifacio Global City is an offshoot of the hospital of the same name in Quezon City which was established in 1903. On January 16, 2010, the hospital was inaugurated by then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.^[2]

Architecture and design

 

The hospital in 2018

The hospital was designed by architecture firm RR Payumo and Associates and the construction costed around ₱9 billion.^[3] A joint venture between First Balfour and Makati Development Corporation was involved in the construction of the hospital.^[4][5] 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 an 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.^[2] The hospital's gross floor area is about 154,000 square meters (1,660,000 sq ft).^[5]

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.^[2] The 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.^[2]

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.^[6]

References

1. official site of the Episcopal Church of the Philippines - Institutitions
2. Torrevillas, Domini (January 16, 2010). "St. Luke's rises on Global City". The Philippine Star. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
3. Subido, Joy Angelica (December 3, 2016). "St. Luke's Medical Center: A look at the future of healthcare". The Philippine Star. Retrieved August 3, 2016.
4. "St. Luke's Medical Center – Bonifacio Global City – First Balfour". firstbalfour.com. Retrieved March 30, 2019.
5. "St. Luke's Medical Center - Global City". Makati Development Corporation. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
6. Carvajal, Nancy (April 10, 2012). "St. Luke's rated among world's most beautiful hospitals". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved December 3, 2016.

External links

 

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