The Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital (CLMMRH) began the ₱163.5 million renovation of its Mother and Child Building on Monday, June 15.
The year-long project will upgrade maternal, neonatal, pediatric, and women’s healthcare services, Dr. Joan Cerrada, CLMMRH Medical Center Chief said at a press conference on Monday.
CLMMRH is the apex government tertiary referral hospital of the NIR. The renovation will significantly boost the hospital’s capacity to provide highly specialized care for mothers, newborns, children, and women throughout the region, she said.
Funded through the Department of Health’s Health Facilities Enhancement Program (HFEP), the project breathes new life into an initiative originally launched in 2013.
Despite years of delays due to funding and implementation hurdles, hospital officials confirmed they are finally moving forward with a comprehensive structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and architectural overhaul.
The project aims to restore and upgrade these critical systems while ensuring full compliance with national building regulations, fire safety codes, licensing requirements, accessibility standards, and modern green building initiatives.
To minimize disruptions to daily patient care and ensure continuous operations, the renovation will be rolled out in two phases over the next twelve months, Cerrada said.
The first phase will focus entirely on the third floor and is scheduled to take approximately 20 weeks. The second phase will target the second floor, spanning both operational and non-operational areas over an estimated 21 weeks.
The remaining weeks of the year-long timeline will be dedicated to migration, transition, equipment commissioning, and formal turnover activities.
Upon completion, the Mother and Child Building will boast a total capacity of 189 beds distributed across its upper levels to ensure appropriate patient segregation, a CLMMRH press statement said.
The third floor will accommodate 85 of these beds, consisting of 68 ward beds, 9 Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) beds, and 8 Special Care Unit (SCU) beds.
This floor will serve as the primary hub for specialized obstetrics, gynecology, and pediatrics, housing dedicated spaces for gynecologic chemotherapy cases, an Oncology Pharmacy Preparation Room, and isolation units for airborne or infectious pediatric conditions.
Meanwhile, the second floor will provide the remaining 104 beds, which include 90 ward beds, 12 private rooms, and 2 isolation rooms.
This level will cater directly to post-normal and post-caesarean delivery patients, critical OB-GYNE cases, and specialized mother-and-newborn services such as Kangaroo Mother Care.
It will also accommodate intensive pediatric cases alongside patients requiring specialized subspecialty care in nephrology, cardiology, rheumatology, and endocrinology. *.
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