MEDICAL SERVICE
The hospital medical services provide good, quality and affordable health care services to all the patients. This was made possible through the concerted efforts of the hospital staff, who works as a team.
Emergency Room
Emergency Room is the show window of the hospital. It is open 24-hours a day, 7days a week and caters both to emergency and out-patient cases after office hours. The ER is fully equipped with emergency drugs, medicines and equipment needed for emergency cases. This is manned by trained and well experienced physicians and nurses. At present, ER caters to an average of 150 patients per day with limitations in terms of manpower manning the ER.
Operating Room
The hospital has two major operating rooms that caters to the major and minor cases. Various emergency and elective surgical, orthopaedic, EENT, Urological and obstetrical cases are being done in this Service area. This is equipped with drugs and medicines, and surgical equipment necessary in the operation, with limitation in terms of manpower.
Out-Patient Department
The Out-Patient Department (OPD) delivers quality health care services during office hours through medical consultations and minor surgeries. Medical Specialists manned the OPD Department. The Medical Specialist for the day also attends to the referrals of complicated cases in the ER and wards.
Health Education and Promotion activities are also done at the OPD while patients are waiting. It aims to increase awareness and understanding of the patients on the importance of good health. It further promotes the existing health policies and regulations of the hospital including PhilHealth benefits. This is done by the Health Education & Promotion officer of the hospital. The OPD caters to an average of 150 patients per day with limitations in terms of manpower manning the OPD.
Surgery Department
Surgery Department caters to a wide variety of surgical cases. This is manned by three part-time Medical Specialists. There is one Medical Specialist on-call daily for emergency referral in the Surgical Department. There is one Surgical Resident who goes on 24 hour duty at the emergency room. Surgical Consultants man the OPD-Surgery Section. However, this is inadequate to cover the duty at the Emergency Department on a 24/7 basis.
Obstetrics and Gynecology Department
OB-Gyne Department caters to a wide variety of OB-Gyne cases including pre-natal check-up, post-partum follow-up and surgical procedures and other Gynecological problems. They likewise attend to emergency referrals. The Department is manned by one full-time OB-Gyne Medical Specialist and two part-time OB-Gyne Medical Specialist. However, this is inadequate to cover the 24/7 duty hours.
Medical Department
The Department of Internal Medicine is committed to provide health services to patients seen at the OPD and Emergency Room on a 24/7 basis. As a Level III hospital, a single Medical Officer or Resident on Duty per department is still inadequate to meet the 24/7 hours duty.
Intensive Care Unit
The Intensive Care Unit is under the care of the Medical Specialists in the Medical Department. It is a specialized unit for the critical and morbid cases where close monitoring and care is needed. The ICU has 2 beds and it is equipped with the drugs and medicines and equipment needed for the treatment and care of critically ill patient.
Hemodialysis Unit
The hemodialysis machines were acquired through the funding of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, (PCSO). The unit caters to patients undergoing hemodialysis from Las Piñas City, Parañaque and Muntinlupa and neighboring towns of Cavite.
The hemodialysis unit is temporarily located at the second floor besides the operating room complex. It has two hemodialysis machines used only for patients that are negative for hepatitis B and hepatitis C diseases. As of this time, patients who were screened and tested positive for either hepatitis B or hepatitis C were referred to other hemodialysis units. The dialyzers and blood lines are being reprocessed manually and preserved using the paracetic acid solution. The water passes through a reverse osmosis unit as well as other filters before going to the hemodialysis machine.
Pediatric Department
The Pediatric Department caters to almost all pediatric cases in the hospital. There are four Pediatric Residents and each goes on a 24-hour duty. One Resident is assigned at the emergency room and one goes on 8-hour duty at the OPD. A Diplomate Pediatrician is acting as Medical Specialist in this Department. Despite of the existing number of Residents, they are still inadequate to cover a particular duty shift.
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
The NICU is a specialized unit designed to provide quality care to the newborns requiring special attention and careful monitoring.
The unit is equipped with drugs and medicines and equipment necessary in the care and treatment of critically ill neonatal patients. The hospital is very strict in the implementation of Newborn Screening Program. Special diagnostic procedures are also done in this unit.
ANCILLARY SERVICE
Radiology
The Radiology Department of the Las Piñas General Hospital and Satellite Trauma Center is located at the ground floor building 1, along the hallway, facing the Emergency Room. It is manned by 5 licensed Radiologic Technologist. The Radiology section provides a 24 hour x-ray operations. At present the Department has only one Radiologist. The services provided are the X-ray, Ultrasound, and CT-Scan.
Laboratory
The Clinical Laboratory provides and interprets analytical and morphological information to assist in the diagnosis of clinical problems and the monitoring of disease, progress and treatment. The provision of a legible and appropriate clinical history on the request form, together with a properly collected specimen, allows the clinical laboratory to issue relevant and accurate results, and to assist the clinician in the interpretation of these results in the clinical context.
The Clinical laboratory is sub-divided into three sections:
a) Clinical Chemistry, b) Hematology, c) Clinical Microscopy, d) Microbiology
The Section of Clinical Chemistry is equipped with a semi-automated chemistry analyzer, doing routine and special chemistries and ion-selective analyzer for electrolytes.These chemistry analyzers were calibrated regularly and validated by daily quality control program, using Levey Jennins Chart.
The Section of Hematology offers routine CBC with Platelet count, ESR and basic coagulation tests. CBCs were done, using fully automated hematology analyzer.On the other hand, Cyanmethemoglobin method was used for hemoglobin determination, while light scattering and flow cytometry on other parameters.
The Section of Clinical Microscopy offers routine urinalysis, fecalysis and pregnancy tests.Special urine chemical examination such as ketone is available upon request.
The Section of Microbiology merely offers Gram stain and AFB stain.The Department is enthusiastically involved in the DOTS program of the Department of Health, as the foremost laboratory in validating sputum positive smears. Cytopathology specimens (paps smears) are also being processed in the department. Likewise, CNS is also being processed.
Blood Bank
The Las Piñas General Hospital & Satellite Trauma Center being the lead hospital in the South of Metro Manila, continues to fulfill the objectives of R.A. 7719. Community mobile blood donations are being conducted to the catchment areas namely, Las Piñas, Parañaque, Muntinlupa and Bacoor.
Pharmacy
This Unit is manned by four permanent registered pharmacists, and three contractual pharmacists. Pharmacy is on 24/7 service, caters to both Hospital and Community clients. Pharmacy aims to provide a complete variety of drugs, medicines and supplies necessary for the operation of the hospital.
