24/03/2024
CENTRAL PHILIPPINE SPECIALTY CENTER - Construction Progress
The following photos are the latest construction updates of the up-and-coming Central Philippine Specialty Center, formerly named Gov. Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital - Cortes Campus. EPEA's and the hospital team's design vision for the central healthcare facility for the heart of the Philippines will soon become a reality.
This complex is a state-of-the-art medical facility and envisioned to be the primary healthcare center in Central Philippines. A five (5) hectare lot in Cortes, Bohol was master-planned to have seven (7) facilities. Namely, they are (Building A) Critical Care Building, (Building B-D) Inpatient Building 1-2, (Building C) Administration Building, (Building E) Behavioral Sciences Center, (Building G) Utilities Backbone Facility, (Building H) Central Materials Recovery Facility. Currently, Building A, B and C are nearing their completion date.
Espina, Perez-Espina, and Associates, an architecture firm specializing in hospital design, along with a dedicated team of hospital engineers, medical planners and professionals, proposed a holistic and evidence-based approach for the design.
To duly reflect the lessons that were learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, the tenets of decentralization/compartmentalization, hospital concourse, source control, and surge capacity were applied to the design. These were done to adapt to the new normal.
Besides this, patient-experience, occupational safety, green, sustainable design, and wellness were also prioritized.