National Center for Health Facilities and Development

General Functions and Structures:

• Formulate policies, plans and programs on health facilities design, operation and management, hospital corporate restructuring, in congruence with hospital reform and the HSRA.
• Provide technical assistance to all stakeholder regarding health facility development and hospital corporate restructuring.
• Nurture and help sustain transformed DOH Hospitals into government-owned corporate hospitals
• Management System Development Division

Specific Functions:

- Develop technical guidelines on Integrated Hospital Information System (IHIS):

• Corporate assessment tools checklist and MOP
• Change management for corporatization
• Blood services network
• Laboratory network
• Hospital network

- Public health unit in hospitals
- Develop training programs/modules on corporate restructuring;
- Develop an assessment mechanism for corporatization of Department of Health (DOH) and Local Government Unit (LGU) hospitals;
- Develop monitoring parameters for corporatized hospital;
- Evaluate project proposals on Hospital Operation and Management (HOM) and corporate restructuring;
- Establish the national hospital data bank on performance indices;
- Provide advisory services on advocacy for planning corporate restructuring and local health development.

Infrastructure and equipment Division

Specific Functions:

• Develop and update technical guidelines on health facility design, planning implementation, building and mechanical equipment maintenance;
• Develop and coordinate the implementation of hospital’s infrastructure upgrading projects;
• Develop training program on health facility design, planning and building maintenance in coordination with CHD’S;
• Provide advisory services regarding health facility design planning, implementation and building maintenance;
• Conceptualize special health facilities’ projects;
• Coordinate training programs on mechanical equipment maintenance
• Ensure coordination of functions with CHD’s

Technical Operations Division

Specific Functions:

• Review, revise and develop technical guidelines on the following;
• Manuals on Operation of Health Facilities
• Program Health Implementation
• Integration of Public Health Unit in the Hospital
• Coordinate the training programs/modules with Health Human Resource Development Bureau (HHRDB) on the management of different service component of health care facilities;

- Provide technical assistance to the following:

• Bureau of Health Facilities and Services (BHFS) and requesting LGU's hospital operations and management
• Center for Health Development (CHDs) or Regional Hospital operation and management
• Infrastructure and Equipment Division on training program and health facility planning, design and maintenance
• Health Policy Development and Planning Bureau (HPDPB) on legislative bills on hospital issues
• Health Human Resource Development Bureau (HHRDB) on health facility personnel training and development

- Conduct in-depth assessment of hospital operation for Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) of systems and sub-systems;
- Develop project proposals on hospital equipment facility upgrading for funding;
- Provide equipment requirement for building design and technical guidelines purposes.

Management and System Development Division

- Formulation of policies and standards on the upgrading of health facilities.
- Evaluation of Senate / House bills and Resolutions
- Conduct of fact-finding activity