Covered hospital and supervising authority
- The Southern Isabela General Hospital in Santiago City, Province of Isabela is upgraded into a tertiary general hospital.
- The upgraded hospital is known as the Southern Isabela Medical Center (SIMC) (Section 1).
- The SIMC shall be under the direct technical and administrative supervision of the Department of Health (DOH) (Section 1).
Bed capacity and implementation timeline
- The authorized bed capacity of the SIMC is increased from fifty (50) to three hundred fifty (350) beds (Section 2).
- The Secretary of the DOH shall implement the increase in bed capacity over a period of five (5) years from the approval of this Act (Section 2).
Upgrading services and staffing requirements
- The SIMC’s existing service capability, professional health care services, and health human resource shall be upgraded and increased to match and be commensurate with the increase in authorized bed capacity (Section 3).
- The Secretary of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) shall create regular plantilla positions for health personnel required of a medical center, in consultation with the DOH (Section 3).
- The plantilla-position creation must correspond to increases in the SIMC’s maintenance and other operating expenses (MOOE) and personal services (PS) (Section 3).
DOH program inclusion and annual funding
- The Secretary of Health shall immediately include the implementation of this Act in the Department’s program (Section 4).
- The funding for implementation shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act (Section 4).
Implementing rules within deadline
- Within 90 days from the approval of this Act, the Secretary of the DOH, in consultation with the Secretary of the DBM, shall promulgate the necessary rules and regulations to implement the Act (Section 5).
Repeals, inconsistent issuances, and transition
- Republic Act No. 3138, establishing the Southern Isabela Emergency Hospital, is repealed (Section 6).
- Republic Act No. 8338, upgrading it to Southern Isabela General Hospital, is repealed (Section 6).
- All other laws, decrees, orders, issuances, rules, and regulations, and parts thereof, that are inconsistent with Republic Act No. 11082 are repealed, amended, or modified accordingly (Section 6).