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Introduced by: MA. THERESA B. BONOAN
4th District, City of Manila

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill seeks to convert and upgrade the Sta. Ana Hospital located in the City
of Manila into Sta. Ana Training and General Hospital which administration and
management will now be under the national government through the Department of
Health.

Santa Ana Hospital was built by the City of Manila with the help of Lucio Tan's
‘Tan Yan Kee Foundation. The hospital building was completed in April 2010, opening
on April 28. Santa Ana is ten stories high, is fully air conditioned and has a capacity of
500 inpatient beds.t

However, the City of Manila is, at present, in severe financial distress and
submerged in huge financial indebtedness amounting to millions of pesos. By reason of
the same, the City of Manila is now having a hard time to budget its collections from
basic services for its constitutents and could hardly sustain the maintenance of the said
hospital, thus the need to transfer Sta. Ana Hospital's administration and management
unde rthe national government through the Department of Health.

The transfer of the management and administration of the Sta, Ana Hospital to
the national government will improve its services by upgrading the same into a training
hospital and also its improvement in its services particularly that it will not only cater
the residents of Manila, but more so the general population.

In view of the foregoing, the passage of this bill is earnestly sought.

MA, Ce W oan

4th District, City of Manila

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SIXTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE )
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES }
First Regular Session )

HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES
House Bill No. 8870

Introduced by: MA. THERESA B. BONOAN
4h District, City of Manila

AN ACT CONVERTING THE STA. ANA HOSPITAL
IN THE CITY OF MANILA INTO STA. ANA TRAINING AND
GENERAL HOSPITAL AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in
Congress of the Philippines assembled:

SEC. 1. Title. - This Act shall be known as the “Sta. Ana Hospital Conversion
and Upgrading Act of 2014”.

SEC. 2. Sta. Ana Hospital Conversion. - The Sta. Ana Hospital in the City of
Manila built by the City of Manila with the help of Lucio Tan's Tan Yan Kee
Foundation hospital is hereby converted to a general hospital to be known as the
Sta. Ana Training and General Hospital.

SEC. 3. Conversion Plan. - The conversion scheme, including the proposed
timetable for the same, shall be carried out under a conversion plan to be drawn
up by the Central Office of the Department of Health: Provided, That said plan
shall be constituted and coordinated by the Department with the Center for
Health Development Metro Manila Director, Chief of Sta. Ana Training and
General Hospital, medical and non-medical personnel through their legal or
duly-designated representatives, and other stakeholders and the City of Manila
through its authorized representative.

Part of the conversion plan of the Sta. Ana Hospital, its management and
administration shall be made under the national government through the
Department of Health. By reason of this, Sta. Ana Training and General Hospital
shall be included in the list of hospitals under the administration and supervision
of the Department of Health.

SEC. 4. Transfer of All Assets and Liabilities. - All assets, movable and
immovable, and records of the Sta. Ana Hospital, as well as its liabilities and
obligations, are hereby transferred to the Sta. Ana Training and General
Hospital.


SEC. 5. Security of Tenure. - The positions, seniority, security and other rights
of tenure of medical and non-medical personnel of the Sta. Ana Hospital
shall continue to be honored under the Sta. Ana Training and General
Hospital.

SEC. 6. Expanded Services. - Considering the coversion and upgrade of the Sta.
Ana Hospital into a training and general hospital and its administration and
management being now under the Department of Health, it will expand its
services not only to the residents or constituents of the City of Manila but to the
whole country as well particluarly those in the nearby cities.

SEC. 7. Appropriations. - The Secretary of Health shall immediately include in
the Departments programs the operationalization of the Sta. Ana Training
and General Hospital, the initial funding of which shall be charged against its
current year’s appropriations. Thereafter, the amount necessary for its continued
operation shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act,

In this view, the City of Manila will no longer appropriate any part of its
budget for the funding of the Sta. Ana Training and General Hospital as it will
now be under the national government’s management and administration.

SEC. 8. Supplementary Funding. - The CHD for Metro Manila Regional
Director and Chief of Hospital, in coordination with the City of Manila—the
concerned local government unit, shall also draw up a mechanism for sourcing
supplementary funds to augment the operations of the Sta. Ana Training
and General Hospital.

SEC. 9. Separability Clause. - If any portion or provision of this Act is declared
unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act or any provision not affected thereby
shall remain in force and effect.

SEC. 10. Repealing Clause. - All laws, decrees, orders, rules and regulations or
other issuances or parts thereof inconsistent with the provisions ofthis Act are
hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

SEC. 11. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect after fifteen (15) days following

the completion of its publication either in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper
of general circulation in the Philippines..

Approved.