page_title: Good News Clinic and Hospital
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Good News Clinic and Hospital / History
caption_attribution_description: English: View from the backdoor trail of the hospital compound leading to the highway near town.
context_page_description: Good News Clinic and Hospital, Inc., shortened to GNCH or Good News, is a missions hospital and first response facility located in Banaue, Ifugao. It is the only private hospital in Ifugao, and until 2015, the only primary care hospital in the province before the provincial hospital in Lamut, Ifugao was built.
context_section_description: Good News started out as a military medical mission at the close of World War II, as military personnel from the nearby former Ifugao capital town of Kiangan began to visit Banaue for the Banaue Rice Terraces. Dr. James Irvine, a US Army surgeon and Evangelical Christian missionary, came back to establish Good News Clinic in 1956 at Barrio Tam-an, with surplus US military medical equipment.
caption: View from the back trail of the hospital compound overlooking and leading to the highway near town.
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