Eastern Visayas Medical Center
Government hospital in Tacloban, Philippines
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The Eastern Visayas Medical Center (EVMC) is a tertiary level teaching and training government hospital in the Philippines.
| Eastern Visayas Medical Center | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Tacloban, Leyte, Eastern Visayas, Philippines |
| Coordinates | 11°15′06″N 125°00′17″E |
| Organization | |
| Type | tertiary level teaching and training hospital |
| Services | |
| Beds | 500 |
| History | |
| Founded | July 16, 1916 (Leyte Provincial Hospital as the oldest merged entity) June 18, 1966 (Speaker Daniel Z. Romualdez Memorial City Hospital as the surviving entity) |
| Links | |
| Website | evrmc |
On June 18, 1966, the then Speaker Daniel Z. Romualdez Memorial City Hospital was established as a general hospital in Tacloban with service capacity of one hundred beds.[1] On July 22, 1972, the Speaker Daniel Z. Romualdez Memorial City Hospital became the surviving entity when the Leyte Provincial Hospital and the Tacloban City Hospital were merged with it.[2] During this time, its capacity was increased to two hundred fifty beds.[3] It was renamed as Tacloban City Medical Center on November 12, 1986 [4] and again renamed as Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center (EVRMC) on March 24, 1992.[5] In 2009, it was authorized by the national law to expand into a five hundred bed hospital.[6] In 2021, the word "regional" was dropped from its name[7] and its service capacity was further increased to 1500 beds.[8]