Iloilo Mission Hospital

The Iloilo Mission Hospital (formally Central Philippine University–Iloilo Mission Hospital), also known as CPU–Iloilo Mission Hospital, CPU–IMH, IMH, or Mission, is a private tertiary, academic, teaching hospital in Jaro, Iloilo City, Philippines. It is managed and operated as the university hospital of Central Philippine University. Established on February 21, 1901 as Union Mission Hospital by the American missionary doctor Joseph Andrew Hall, it is "the first Protestant and American-founded hospital in the Philippines". It became the first hospital for soldiers and constabulary during the American regime in the Philippines. The Baptists and Presbyterians operated the hospital jointly. Its administration was later ceded to the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society in 1925, becoming the Iloilo Mission Hospital in 1932. The hospital pioneered nursing education in the Philippines by establishing the Union Mission Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1906, which later became part of Central Philippine University and is now known as the Central Philippine University College of Nursing. The nursing school achieved significant milestones, including producing the first nursing graduates and top-ranking nursing board exam taker, and the first top-performing school in the history of nursing in the Philippines. While operating as the healthcare institution of Central Philippine Un

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