CLASSIFICATION ACCORDING TO SERVICE CAPABILITY:

• Primary Care

• Secondary Care

• Tertiary Care

Essential Service Area of Hospital

• Patient Care Services

  • Nursing Care

  • Emergency Services

  • Intensive Care Units

  • Surgery

• Support Services

  • Central Supply

  • Dietary Services

  • Environmental Services

  • Health information Technology

• Professional Services

  • Cardiodiagnostics (EKG or ECG)

  • Pathology and Clinical Laboratory

  • Electroneurodiagnostic technology (ENT) or Electroencephalography (EEG)

  • Occupational Theraphy (OT)

  • Physical theraphy (PT)

  • Respiratory Theraphy (RT)

  • Diagnostic Radiology Services

THE CLINICAL LABORATORY

Two major divisions in the clinical laboratory

• Clinical Analysis Areas (6)

  • Hematology & Coagulation

  • Clinical Chemistry

  • Serology & Immunology

  • Clinical Microscopy

  • Microbiology

  • Blood bank & Immunohematology

• Anatomical and Surgical Pathology (4)

  • Histopathology

  • Cell Cytology

  • Cytogenetics

  • Autopsy Services

Reference laboratories in the Philippines:

• East Avenue Medical Center (EAMC)

• Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP)

• National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI)

• Philippine Heart Center (PHC) — designated through DPO No. 2009- 5148

• Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM)

• San Lazaro Hospital (SLH)

“ORDER OF HEIRARCHY”

1. Owner/Hospital Administrator

2. Pathologist - Laboratory Administrator

3. Chief Medical Technologist/ Laboratory Supervisor

4. Clinical Laboratory Section Supervisor/ Head

5. Senior Medical Technologist (according to tenure)

6. Junior Medical Technologist

7. Medical Laboratory Technician/Assistant/Phlebotomist

8. Clerks (Cashiers and Records)

9. Utility (Janitor, Washer and Guards)

10. Others: Interns, Trainees