Hospital Patients & Visitors
Keep track of your appointments, doctor’s visits, prescriptions, billing, and medical procedures throughout your wellness journey.
Inpatient Procedure
Upon Arrival in Healthway QualiMed Hospital
When you arrive in Healthway QualiMed Hospital, proceed to the Admitting Department. Staff will assist you to your room if you have a pre-scheduled admission. If none, staff will assist in registration and completion of required documents. If you have a Letter of Guarantee from your HMO, provide it to the staff for validation.
Settling in the Room
We hope you find your accommodations suitable to your liking. If you need assistance in moving around, don’t hesitate to ask your nurse for help. Once you’ve settled in your room, the nurse will carry-out any doctor’s requests such as diagnostic or laboratory tests.
Preparing for Discharge
If you have been cleared for discharge by the doctor, the nurse and billing teams will prepare the documents for clearance.
If you need to be transferred to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for further care and the hospital has capability to accommodate, the nurse will transfer you. If the hospital does not have the capability to accommodate, the nurse will assist in transferring to a partner hospital for admission.
Accommodations
Your surroundings can have a powerful impact on your mood and well-being. In Healthway QualiMed Hospital, we will provide spacious and comfortable rooms to ensure your ease of recovery.
Room Types
Basic Ward
Private Room
VIP Room
For inquiries about the admissions process and bed availability, call the Customer Care Hotline at (02) 7751-4929.
Admissions Process
The Admitting Department guides patients to ensure a smooth process in the hospital.
- The Admitting Department receives the Admitting Order from the Attending Physician.
- If the patient has an HMO, the staff will validate the service inclusions and coverage.
- Admitting staff will register the patient in the system and prepare the room.
- Admitting staff will assist the patient to their room.
- Nurse will administer Diagnostic Procedures prescribed to the patient, applicable.
PhilHealth Requirements
Proceed to the Admitting Department for Admission. Kindly accomplish the following documents as requested by Admitting Department:
- If initial registration in the Member Portal, complete Claim Form 1 (CF1), Claim Form 2 (CF2), and other requirements.
- If an existing member in the Member Portal, complete Claim Form (CF2) Form.
Once personal information is filled out, secure the signature of Attending Physician and Final Diagnosis on CF2. If there are other documents required, please provide it to the Claims Department within 24 hours of admission.
Once the documents are accomplished, signed and duly supported, proceed to the Claims Department and submit the requirements to the Officer of the Medical Center to compute and deduct your Philhealth benefits from your hospital bill.
Billing and Payment
Patients are encouraged to review their statement of account daily to validate the transactions for room and board, supplies, medicines, and procedures. If there are any questions, you may raise it with the Billing Staff for review prior to discharge. It is important to submit your PhilHealth documents or Letter of Guarantee (LOG) from companies or HMOs upon admission to ensure proper charging. The HMO Department can assist in coordination of the LOG with companies or HMOs. For more details on HMO Assistance and PhilHealth Requirements, visit the [link].
Patient’s Rights and Responsibilities
Healthway QualiMed Hospitals affirms its purpose of providing quality healthcare by placing top priority on the welfare of our patients, their family and their loved ones.
Patient’s Rights
We therefore affirm the following patients’ rights for all patients who come to us for medical care:
- The patient has the right to receive effective, safe, high quality medical care within the hospital’s capability and without regard to race, creed, religion, ability or disability, age, gender, ethnic or national origin, and lifestyle or ability to pay.
- The patient has the right to obtain from his/her physician complete, current information concerning his diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis in terms that the patient can be reasonably expected to understand.
- The patient has the right to receive from his/her physician the information necessary to give informed consent prior to the start of any procedure and or treatment, and to know the name of the person(s) responsible for the procedure and/or treatment.
- The patient has the right to have effective communication including interpretation, translation, and assistance with vision, speech, hearing, language, and cognitive impairments.
- The patient has the right to have a family member or representative of his/her choice and his/her own physician promptly notified of his/her admission to the hospital.
- The patient has the right to refuse treatment to the extent permitted by law and to be informed of the medical consequences of his action.
- The patient has the right to every consideration of his/her privacy concerning his own medical care program and all communication and records pertaining to his/her care should be treated as confidential.
- The patient has the right to expect that, within its capacity, a hospital must make reasonable responses to the request of a patient for services.
- The patient has the right to have reasonable opportunities for visits and for communication by telephone and private conversations, unless informed of sound medical or institutional reasons for limited access.
- The patient has the right to obtain information as to any relationship of his/her hospital to other health care and educational institutions in so far as his/her care is concerned and any professional relationships among individuals, by name, and who are treating them.
- The patient has the right to be advised if the hospital proposes to engage in or perform human experimentation affecting his/her care or treatment and that he/she has the right to refuse to participate in such undertaking.
- The patient has the right to expect that an appropriate surrogate decision-maker will be sought if he/she lacks decision making ability and has no advance directive.
- The patient has the right to be informed about his/her illness and treatment options including potential benefits, risks, alternatives, and costs and to know the identity and professional identity and professional status of his/her caregivers.
- The patient has the right to participate fully in decisions and in resolving dilemmas about his/her care, treatment and services, to accept or refuse care, treatment, and services in accordance with law and regulation.
- The patient has the right to be protected, to the best of the hospital’s ability, from real or perceived abuse, neglect, or exploitation from staff, students, volunteers, other patients, visitors or family members and to have access to protective and advocacy services when needed.
- The patient has the right to access pastoral care and spiritual services.
- The patient has the right to have his/her wishes honored concerning organ donation within the limits of the law of the hospital’s capacity.
- The patient has the right to raise ethical issues concerning his/her treatment with his/her physician or other care provider and for the Ethics or Grievance Committee, and to participate in the resolution of those issues.
- The patient has the right to freely voice complaints without fear of coercion, discrimination, reprisal or unreasonable interruption of care, treatment, and services.
- The patient has the right to receive a prompt and courteous reply to any complaint or grievance concerning the quality of care or service by contacting his/her physician, nurse, or the Customer Relations Officer.
- The patient has the right to examine and receive an explanation of his/her bill regardless of source of payment.
- The patient has the right to know what the hospital rules and regulations apply to his/her conduct as a patient.
- The patient has the right to be informed of his/her rights and responsibilities as a patient. We also believe the patient shares intrinsically in the responsibility for his/her own medical care.
Patient’s Responsibilities
We also believe the patient shares intrinsically in the responsibility for his/her own medical care. He/she is responsible for:
- Being on time for scheduled appointments or to notify the hospital when he/she cannot keep his/her appointment;
- Providing complete, truthful, and accurate information (such as information about past illnesses, medications, advance directives and other health related matters). He/she should report promptly any changes in his/her condition to his/her doctor or his/her healthcare team;
- Participating in discussions and asking questions about his/her care;
- Letting caregivers know whether he/she understands the proposed care plan and what is expected of him/her;
- Following the treatment plan to which he/she agreed upon;
- Participating in discussions about his/her pain management and to ask questions about pain relief options. He/she is responsible for asking for pain relief when pain first begins and to tell his/her caregivers if his/her pain is not relieved;
- Respecting the rights of others. He/she may not disturb other patients and may not disrupt or interfere with the care provided to other patients or smooth operations of the hospital. Any behavior that disrupts, interferes with, intimidates, harasses, threatens, or harms any staff member or other persons in the hospital is prohibited and may result in his/her removal from the hospital, termination of care and possible civil or criminal changes. Weapons are absolutely prohibited within hospital premises. Children below seven (7) years of age are cautioned from visiting sick persons;
- Complying faithfully with required documents from his/her insurance carriers or managed care companies. Promptness in submission of these documents to the hospital before discharge time is a basic responsibility;
- Complying truthfully to his/her promise to settle financial his/her obligations or alternative arrangement with his/her private doctors and to private hospitals;
- Reporting within twenty-four (24) hours to appropriate government authorities, such as Barangay Captain/City Mayor or Department of Social Welfare Development, relatives or next of kin who abandon him/her at the hospital when and he/she has recovered and given discharge orders already by the attending physician. A waiver of this responsibility is given in favor of the management of the hospital by the undersigned in case the patient is a minor;
- Telling his/her physician or other caregiver if you want to transfer to another care provider or facility.
Visitor’s Guide
- Temperature check will be done prior to entering hospital premises.
- If you are symptomatic, you must wear a facemask at all times.
- Physicians may opt to conduct the consultation of symptomatic patients at the ER isolation area.
It is under the discretion of the Attending Physician to conduct a RT-PCR or Covid-19 Antigen test.
- If the patient is fully vaccinated without flu-like symptoms, they will be admitted to the Clean Ward or ICU.
- If the patient has flu-like symptoms and/or with chest X-ray findings suggestive of pneumonia; and/or negative Covid-19 Antigen test, they will be admitted to the Holding Area.
- If the patient has flu-like symptoms; and/or with chest X-ray findings suggestive of pneumonia; and/or with positive Covid-19 Antigen test, they will be admitted ot the Covid-19 Ward or ICU.
- If the patient is fully vaccinated without flu-like symptoms, they can be accommodated in the clean OR.
- If the patient has flu-like symptoms; and/or with chest X-ray findings suggestive of pneumonia; and/or with negative or positive Covid-19 Antigen test or pending or positive RT-PCR result, they will be admitted to the Covid-19 Ward or ICU.
- Patients below 18 years of age
- Children with special needs
- Persons with disabilities
- Elderly patients requiring special assistance
- Pregnant women
- All companions should be fully vaccinated for Covid-19, asymptomatic, and free from exposure to a Covid-19 confirmed case within the past 14 days.
- Companions in the Covid-19 Ward or ICU must always wear a face mask, observe physical distancing, and do frequent hand hygiene.
- Clean Ward and ICU - Visitors are allowed provided:
- Fully vaccinated against Covid-19
- Asymptomatic
- 18 years old and above
- Not more than 3 visitors at a time
- Visiting hours:
- Regular Room: 8AM to 5PM
- ICU: 7AM to 9AM and 7PM to 9AM
- NICU Viewing Hours: 7AM to 9AM and 3PM to 5PM
- Holding Area and Covid-19 Area - No visitors are allowed