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The history
of PERPETUAL SUCCOUR HOSPITAL is a story of a grateful
Bishop and three Sisters. In June 30, 1936, to answer
the urgent plea of Msgr. Gabriel Reyes, Sister Teresa
de Jesus Fernandez, Sr. Carmen Artiaga,and one young
professed Sister-nurse found the beginning of the Holy
Child Hospital . The pioneering sisters gave the dilapidated
wooden house near the Archbishop’s residence |
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a semblance
of a hospital, where they ministered to their poor patients
who could
only afford to give vegetables, chicken and fruits in
exchange of their hospital bills. |
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Just
when the HOLY CHILD HOSPITAL was
budding forth a promise of expansion, the
conflagration of war broke out and it swallowed
in its flames the small hospital. On December
27, 1941, the Sisters had to evacuate to Danao
with some of their patients and were housed by
Atty. Durano. There, they carried on with their
ministry to the sick and childbearing mothers.
It took a long time for Mother Alice, |
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SPC, the Provincial
Superior, to locate the Sisters for they shifted locations.
Once found, the seven Sisters made a grueling and perilous
sea journey to Iloilo City in a Japanese cruiser, where
they were housed at St. Paul ’s Hospital until
they were dispensed to the different houses of the community.
In 1950, the Archbishop of Cebu, Msgr. Julio Rosales,
requested the Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres to return
to his archdiocese, and Sr. Josephine represented the
first batch of returnees. Prominent families of Cebu
rented for the Sisters the government owned Library
at Jones Avenue for a nominal fee of P50.00. Manuel
de Veyra, M.D., helped in the negotiations, and served
as Medical Director for seven years. With the rebirth
came a new name: PERPETUAL SUCCOUR HOSPITAL. |
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A
great number of patients kept pouring in. The hospital
needed expansion that |
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became
the immediate concern of the new administrator,
Mother Charles de Jesus, SPC. With due consultation,
the land was purchased and on June 13,1958 the
construction started. On July 26,1958, the cornerstone
was blessed and on April 5,1959, His Excellency,
Msgr. Esteban Montecillo blessed the 100-bed capacity
hospital. |
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then, PERPETUAL SUCCOUR HOSPITAL remaining true
to its humble beginnings and urged by the founders
to care for the sick and the under-privileged,
has opened its doors to all, regardless of creed,
race and status. |
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With
the advent of the new millennium, waves of innovations
swept PERPETUAL
SUCCOUR HOSPITAL to unprecedented heights. On March
19, 2001, the ground
breaking of the SPC Medical Specialty Center took place
in the lots adjacent to the
Cebu Heart Institute that the administration had recently
purchased. This 7-storey
building houses the Cebu Cancer Institute, the Advanced
RehabCare and Sports
Medicine Centre, Nuclear Medicine, the ACES & PSH
Eye Referral Center with an
Adjoining Eye Surgicenter, the Varicose Center, Dental
Center, Doctors Clinics, etc. |
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PERPETUAL
SUCCOUR HOSPITAL at present, is a 240-bed capacity,
tertiary training and education facility, committed
to the truest expression of Catholic values and is recognized
for its tradition of medical innovation and leadership
in various specialties. The state of the art care is
matched by its commitment to service; its unhesitating
outreach to those in need, where the enduring values
give life to this momentous history, are incorporated
into the very fiber of the institution and its employees;
where leadership inspired the tremendous growth of its
missions. |
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This
transformation of PSH into what it is now, is a combined
effort of love, of
commitment to service, and dynamism of the very people,
mostly, the SPC Sisters in
the Administration, who revitalized their sense of purpose,
under the leadership of
Sr. Zeta Caridad R. Rivero, SPC, in collaboration with
the Medical Staff and
personnel. |
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Sr. Santaniña
Maria Bernaldez, SPC, currently PSH's Hospital Administrator,
continues the legacy, upholding Perpetual Succour Hospital
as one of the country’s world-class and highly
specialized health care system in cardiac, cancer, kidney,
and physical rehabilitation, uniquely recognized for
its tradition of excellence, technological leadership,
compassionate and holistic patient care. |
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