Central Luzon Doctors' Hospital is a private 200-bed tertiary-level training hospital located along Hospital Drive, Barangay San Vicente, Tarlac City, Tarlac, Philippines. CLDH is accredited by the Department of Health (DOH) and by the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth). CLDH is a member of the Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines (PHAP) and the Philippine Hospital Association (PHA).
CLDH History
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In the late 1950s a group of doctors realized the need for an alternative private health care provider in the province of Tarlac. By the early 1960s, these doctors decided that a new and modern hospital should provide better and more effective health care services and that they would built that hospital themselves. On February 2, 1962, the Central Luzon Doctors' Hospital, or CLDH for short, was formally established.
The original incorporators of CLDH are Drs. Constante D.Quirino, Fausto Pineda, Cesario Bondoc, Juan Talon, Benjamin S. Paz, Carlos Kipping Jr., Romualdo R. Aclao, Alfredo Carlos, Alberto David, Esteban E. Fabie Jr., Rodolfo de Guzman, Emiliano Magdangal, Benito M. Milla, Restituto de Ocampo, and Pablito Tanedo.
Forty-eight (48) years from CLDH's foundation day, only Drs. Paz, Bondoc, David and de Ocampo are left from the original group of fifteen who envisioned a modern health care institution for Tarlac City, the province and its surrounding communities. Of the four surviving incorporators, only Dr. Paz, now the Hospital's President, continues to practice his medical profession.
In April 4, 1964, the construction of the hospital's first building along Hospital Drive in San Vicente started with the laying of the corner stone. The then Secretary of Health Rodolfo T. Canos was the special guest. On Christmas day of the same year, the first surgical operation was performed at the then newly-constructed operating room of the fledgling hospital. In January 1965, the formal inauguration of the hospital was held with the then Tarlac Governor Ninoy Aquino as the guest speaker.
In 1976, CLDH embarked in general nursing education and established the CLDH School of Nursing, which was later renamed Central Luzon Doctors' Hospital Educational Institution. The school was built behind the hospital facing Romulo Highway. In 1979, the school produced its first nursing graduates. In 2004, the school campus was moved to San Pablo. Today, the school is offering undergraduate and graduate courses in Nursing, allied health services (Radiologic Technology, Medical Technology, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Pulmonary Therapy, Midwifery, and Health Care Services) and basic education (pre-school, elementary and high school).
During the mid-1990s, when the original hospital buildings were no longer enough to accommodate the growing number of population and of patients seeking health care from the hospital, the construction of a new three-storey building complex was started. This new building shall house most of the health care service units, clinical wards, operating room, pharmacy, chapel and administrative offices. However, due of the effects of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, only two-phases from the original three-phase plan was completed. Nevertheless, the project gave the hospital wider space to serve the health care needs of the community as well as giving CLDH a new look.
In 1965, CLDH was a 25-bed capacity, primary hospital with less than a hundred employees and a capitalization of less than a million pesos. Today, the hospital is a 200-bed tertiary general hospital with a medical staff numbering more than 200, employees numbering about 700, and assets that have since multiplied more than a thousandfold since its incorporation in 1962.
CLDH FOUNDERS
CLDH Incorporators: standing from left; Dr. Benito M. Milla, Dr. Rudy de Guzman, Dr. Emiliano Magdangal, Dr. Alfredo Carlos, Dr. Romualdo Aclao, Dr. Restituto de Guzman, seated from left; Dr. Alberto David, Dr. Esteban Fabie Jr., Dr. Carlos Kipping Jr., Dr. Constante D. Quirino, Dr. Cesario Bondoc, Dr. Benjamin S. Paz, and Dr. Juan Talon. Not in photo were Dr. Pablito Tanedo and Dr. Fausto Pineda. (Photo from C P Quirino Jr's collection)
VISSION/MISSION
OUR VISION
We will sustain our leadership in Central Luzon by maintaining a dynamic and progressive professional and technical staff that will provide the highest possible standard of medical and health care resposive to the needs and expectations of the people we serve.
OUR MISSION
- We are a general hospital organized as a stock corporation to provide to the residents of Central Luzon and its immediate communities Christ-like, comprehensive, affordable and achievable quality health care.
- We recognize that our patients are integrated persons with physical, psychological, mental, social and spiritual needs and we respond to such needs by way of holistic attention to their concerns.
- We engage in medical research and educational processes that enable us to render our services with the use of current acceptable, technology-based and ethical medical practices.
- We are committed to provide an equitable balance of benefits to our clients, professional partners, employees, owner and the people of the communities we serve.
ACCREDITATIONS/LICENSES
Department of Health (DOH)
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)
Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth/PHIC)
Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD)
Philippine Pediatrics Society
Philippine Academy of Family Physicians
Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines (PHAP)
Philippine Hospital Association (PHA)
Philippine Society for Quality in Healthcare (PSQua)
Philippine Nurses Association (PNA)
Philippine Pharmacy Association (PPA)
