St. Luke's Medical Center
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St. Luke's Medical Center is a tertiary referral hospital located in Quezon City and Taguig City, Philippines. It has a bed capacity of 660. It is the first in the Philippines and second in Asia to be accredited by the US based Joint Commission International (JCIA), .[citation needed]
St. Luke’s was established in 1903 by American missionaries as a charity ward and dispensary hospital, until it was transformed into an independent, non-sectarian, non-stock, non-profit corporation in the 1970s.
Today, St. Luke’s is a complex atop a hilly terrain in Quezon City. The hospital now accommodates 652 beds, and is home to 10 institutes, 13 departments, and 22 "Centers of Excellence", . Adjacent to the hospital proper are the Medical Arts Building and the twin towers of Cathedral Heights Building Complex (CHBC) where over 1,000 hospital-affiliated medical consultants see out-patients in more than 450 private clinics. Also within the complex are a five-story parking building, six restaurants, ten apartelle units for out-of-town families of patients, 14 residential units at the top floor and the St. Luke’s College of Medicine – William H. Quasha Memorial.
The Center is especially active in cardiovascular medicine, neurology and neurosurgery, and cancer.[citation needed]
On February 1, 2005, St. Luke's signed an Affiliation Agreement with Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. It also started work on a branch in
A branch in Bonifacio Global City opened on January 16, 2010,
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