| Founded in 1903 by American
Episcopal missionary Charles Brent, St. Luke's Hospital started as a nine-bed
ward and dispensary named Mosher Hall. In 1907, it became the University
Hospital. Over the next three decades, bed capacity at St. Luke's Hospital
increased to 140 beds. During the Japanese Occupation, the hospital's name
was changed to Nippon Byoin.
In 1959, St. Luke's Hospital
moved to its new site in Cathedral Heights. Already a 190 bed Hospital
by then, it had a neuro-psychiatric unit, a cobalt therapy unit, and a
physiotherapy department, all new health services for the community.
The era of St. Luke's Hospital
as a church owned institution ended in August of 1975. Stewardship was
transferred to a board of trustees, and St. Luke's Hospital became an independent,
non-sectarian, non-profit, non-stock corporation with income continuously
reverting back to the hospital for acquisition of world class equipments,
funding of medical research, and providing charity medical care. In line
with these, the hospital was renamed St. Luke's Medical Center in 1984.
In 1991, St. Luke's Medical
Center was cited by both the Asian Institute of Management and the World
Executive Digest, in their First Annual Management Awards, as one of Asia's
Outstanding Companies.
Today, the 650-bed hospital
facility has nine institutes, namely: Heart, Radiology, Pathology, Pulmonary
Medicine, Ophthalmology, Neurosciences, Digestive Diseases, Cancer, and
Orthopedics and Sports medicine. It has thirteen departments, namely: Surgery,
Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Anaesthesiology, Otorhinolaryngology-Head
and Neck Surgery, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Emergency Medicine,
Out-Patient Care, Radiation Oncology, Nuclear Medicine, Legal Medicine
and Jurisprudence, and Dentistry and Oral Surgery. And it has three centers,
namely: Geriatric, Pain Management, and Stone and Prostrate Treatment.
Adjacent is the Medical Arts Building and the Cathedral Heights Building
Complex, where over 1,000 hospital-affiliated medical consultants see outpatients
in more than 500 private clinics. Also located within the compound is the
St. Luke's College of Medicine - William H. Quasha Memorial.
St. Luke's Medical Center
has the perfect synergy of state-of-the-art technology and first class
human resources in its continuing pursuit in providing high quality health
care and services to the country. And in the same breadth, it has maintained
its lead in the hospital industry and lived up to its credo, "World Class
Technology and Expertise in Caring Hands,"
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