Baguio General Hospital
Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center, also known as Baguio General Hospital a hospital in in Baguio, Philippines. It is the largest government funded tertiary hospital in the Cordillera Administrative Region.
Started in 1902 by American physician Dr. Eugene Stafford, as a sanatorium, it grew into a hospital and was named as Baguio Hospital in 1907. Its name was changed to Baguio General Hospital in 1937, was bombed in World War II in 1945, and in 1967 following accreditation by the Philippine Medical Association and Philippine College of Surgeons, it started as a training center with residency programs for all branches of medicine and remains so until today training residents, consultants, as well as interns and Medical/allied health science students of various universities around the country. On January 2017 BGHMC was named as an ISO 9001:2015 institution. In 2018, President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte signed into law Republic Act 11084 on October 3, increasing the bed capacity of BGHMC from 500 to 800.
