CARDINAL Santos Medical Center (CSMC) was recognized at the Asian Hospital Management Awards (Ahma) given out in September in Hanoi, Vietnam, for its commitment to provide excellent health care and world-class medical training.
With the award, the hospital has once again shown that health-care professionals are multifaceted individuals who can be innovators as much as providers of care, CSMC officials said.
Hospital Management Asia (HMA) is an award-giving body that recognizes the best practices of various hospitals across Asia. For the past 18 years, the annual conference gives health-care leaders the opportunity to gather and exchange insights toward better health-care management. This year, among the 500 entries received from 129 hospitals across 17 countries, five entries from the Philippines have been shortlisted as finalists, and two of those are from Cardinal Santos Medical Center.
Winning the Gold Award under the Talent Development category is the Philippine Center for Advanced Surgery (PCAS) Minimally Invasive Surgery Training Center, the pioneering training center for MIS in the Philippines, accredited and recognized here and abroad and continues to set high standards in training for minimally invasive surgery.
Receiving the Excellence Award under Innovations in Healthcare Technology category is Project E.R.R.A.N.D (Electronic Real-time Rounds Activities for Nursing Division): Using Technology for Productivity and Better Patient Care. This is one of the innovation projects from CSMC Supervisory School which made use of technology to collect real-time feedback from in-patient using mobile phones, tablets and computers, and provide reports to unit managers for faster decision-making and provision of support to enable the desired patient and nursing experience.
Both awards for Cardinal Santos Medical Center were received by members of the Senior Management and Medical Executive Committee led by SVP and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Zenaida M. Javier-Uy. She was joined by PCAS-MIS Executive Director Dr. Alfred Allen E. Buenafe on behalf of the hospital’s President and CEO Atty. Pilar Nenuca P. Almira.
The conference allowed medical practitioners and health-care professionals to take inspiration from others to make health care available and accessible for everyone in the best way possible.