Classification

of Health
Care
Facilities
Report by: Level 2 Section A, Group 2

Community Health Nursing

 DOH ISSUED ADMINISTRATIVE
ORDER 2012-0012
(RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING
THE NEW CLASSIFICATION OF
HOSPITALS AND OTHER HEALTH
FACILITIES IN THE PHILIPP INES)

Advances in health sciences and services have

brought about the development of different types of
health facilities. In response, that provides for a new
classification scheme of health facilities.
NEW CLASSIFICATION
OF HOSPITALS
2012 Administrative Order No. 2012-
0012
Amended the classification criteria for hospitals,
reducing the number of levels from 4 levels to 3
levels (DOH, 2012b).

HOSPITALS ARE BROADLY CLASSIFIED

AS GENERAL OR SPECIALTY HOSPITALS.

a.) A general hospital provides services for all kinds

of illnesses, injuries, or deformities.

b.) A specialty hospital specializes in the treatment

of a particular or a group of related ailments only.
 CLASSIFICATION OF GENERAL HOSPITALS

CLINICAL SERVICES FOR ANCILLARY SERVICES

INPATIENTS
Consulting specialists in all four Secondary clinical laboratory
major specialties Blood station
Emergency and outpatient services Pharmacy
Isolation facilities
Surgical/maternity facilities
Dental clinic
Schistosomiasis
Control and Research
Hospital in Palo, Leyte
 CLASSIFICATION OF GENERAL HOSPITALS

CLINICAL SERVICES FOR ANCILLARY SERVICES

INPATIENTS
Departmentalized clinical services Tertiary clinical laboratory
Respiratory unit Blood station
General intensive care unit 2nd level X-ray with mobile unit
High-risk pregnancy unit
Neonatal intensive care unit
Biliran Provincial Hospital in Naval, Biliran
Ormoc District Hospital in Ormoc City, Leyte
 CLASSIFICATION OF GENERAL HOSPITALS

CLINICAL SERVICES FOR ANCILLARY SERVICES

INPATIENTS
Teaching/training plus accredited Tertiary clinical laboratory with
residency program in all four major histopathology
specialties Blood bank
Physical medicine and 3rd level X-ray
rehabilitation unit
Ambulatory surgical unit
Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu
City, Cebu
Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center in
Tacloban City, Leyte
CLASSIFICATION OF
OTHER HEALTH CARE
FACILITIES
Apart from hospitals, there are other health
facilities that are classified as primary care,
custodial care, diagnostic and therapeutic, and
specialized outpatient facilities.
CATEGORY A:
PRIMARY CARE FACILITY

A first-contact health care facility that offers basic services

including emergency services and provision for normal
deliveries.

1. With Inpatient Beds — a short-stay facility where the

patient spends an average of one to two days before
discharge. Examples are infirmaries and birthing (lying-
in) facilities.
2. Without Inpatient Beds - like health centers, out-patient
clinics, and dental clinics.
CATEGORY B:
CUSTODIAL CARE FACILITY
A health facility that provides long-term care,
including basic services like food and shelter, to patients
with chronic conditions requiring ongoing health and
nursing care due to impairment and a reduced degree of
independence in activities of daily living, and patients in
need of rehabilitation.

Examples: custodial psychiatric facilities, substance/drug

abuse treatment and rehabilitation centers,
sanitaria/leprosaria, and nursing homes.
CATEGORY C:
DIAGNOSTIC/THERAPEUTIC FACILITY

A facility for the examination of the human body,

specimens from the human body for the diagnosis,
sometimes treatment of disease, or water for drinking
water analysis. The test covers are preanalytical,
analytical, and post-analytical phases of the
examination.

This category is further classified into:

1.
Such as, but not limited to the following:
a. Clinical Laboratory
b. HIV testing laboratory
c. Blood service facility
d. Drug testing laboratory
e. Newborn screening laboratory
f. Laboratory for drinking water analysis

providing services such as X-ray, CT Scan,

mammography, MRI, and
ultrasonography.
 3. NUCLEAR
MEDICINE FACILITY

A facility regulated by the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute

utilizing applications of radioactive materials in diagnosis,
treatment, or medical research, with the exception of the use of
sealed radiation sources in radiotherapy, as in internal radiation
therapy.

CATEGORY D:
SPECIALIZED OUTPATIENT FACILITY

A facility that performs highly specialized procedures

on an outpatient basis.

Examples: dialysis clinics, ambulatory surgical clinics,

cancer chemotherapeutic centers/clinics, cancer
radiation facilities, and physical medicine and
rehabilitation centers/clinic.
THAT'S ALL, THANK
YOU!