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A new mission focused on the highest quality of health care, training, services and research is what redefines the administration of Atty. Gabriel Martin L. Angeles, the young and dynamic president of the Angeles University Foundation Medical Center.
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Barely two years in office, Angeles made a remarkable impression among the senior officers and staff of AUFMC even as he stirs his team to work for bigger things for the hospital.
In an exclusive interview with Angeles last week, he proudly announced that this year they are celebrating 20 fruitful years of AUFMC, a strong medical institution founded and initially administered by his father, CHED Secretary Emmanuel Y. Angeles.
Among its major accomplishments, the young Angeles said AUFMC opened the Evangelina Macapagal Medical Tower last year. This new building houses the best facilities for the hospital’s specialty services.
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“The establishment of the Medical Tower gave us the opportunity to provide more specialty services while once fully completed, it will also increase our bed capacity to 250,” Angeles said.
Along with the Medical Tower, AUFMC has also established a research center that serves as an information hub for the improvement of the hospital’s services.
Last year, the Philippine Health Insurance (PhilHealth) has awarded AUFMC as the Best Private Tertiary Hospital in Region 3. Angeles said the award is one of the most coveted awards in the medical industry because of its impact on the awardees’ performance evaluation. The criteria for the award include patient care, facilities, services and strength of policies.
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And while AUFMC is working on bagging the same award this year, Angeles said another good news came their way last January after the AUFMC kidney transplant unit was accredited by the Department of Health, barely six months from application date.
The first and the only kidney transplant unit in Central Luzon, the AUFMC Kidney Transplant Center is the result of the leadership of two of the country’s foremost transplant surgeons, Dr. Rosemarie Liquete and Dr. Maricel Catunggal, a highly respected nephrologist.
“Through this facility, patients are given the opportunity to drastically improve their quality of life and live as much as they did before their illness. Transplantation eliminates the need for dialysis, thereby allowing patients live with more freedom, energy and productivity,” Angeles said.
Aside from providing the highest quality organ transplant services in the region, AUFMC actively advocates organ donation through a donor referral system where all hospitals in the region cooperate to boost the accessibility of organ donation.
As if time running so fast against them, the energetic leader of AUFMC likewise said that they will soon put up the first and only fully operational and complete Heart Institute at the AUFMC.
The AUFMC-Heart Institute is in collaboration with the H. B. Calleja National Heart Institutes, Angeles said. “The institute will have an open heart surgery capability while our collaboration will cover research, cardiology training as well as upgrading of facilities,” he said.
In the next five years, Angeles said AUFMC aims to become the finest medical institution in Asia. “Today, we are only private university-based teaching hospital in the region. We want to achieve more to deliver the best services for the people. And along with our goals for excellence, we will pursue our commitment in doing our social responsibility. Soon, we will build a new charity wing to serve a greater number of clientele,” Angeles said.
The opening of Essensa Spa at the Angeles University Foundation Medical Center (AUFMC) last May 21 has paved way for a partnership for health wellness, a growing campaign among health institutions and organizations in the country today.
Essensa Spa and Aroma, AUFMC
Sen. Chiz Escudero, DOT Region 3 Dir. Ronnie Tiotuico and Angeles City Mayor Francis “Blueboy” Nepomuceno led the opening rites for the wellness center amid a very enthusiastic crowd at the AUFMC. Essensa Spa is located at the side of AUFMC along Mac Arthur Highway, Angeles City.
(From L-R)DOT Region 3 Dir. Ronnie Tiotuico,Sen. Chiz Escudero, Angeles City Mayor Francis “Blueboy” Nepomuceno, Atty.Martin Gabriel Angeles-Pres. and CEO of AUFMC, Flor I. Arrozal-Essensa Spa Owner
Essensa is a therapeutic treatment using finest extracts, essences and oils that was born in the heart of Provence, France with the original vision of offering an alternative to Western medicine.
Flor I. Arrozal, Essensa Spa owner, said the wellness center is a joint concept with Atty. Martin Gabriel Angeles, president and CEO of AUFMC.
“When I put up Cofi Academy at AUFMC, Atty. Martin asked me if I were interested in setting up a wellness spa to cater to the hospital patients and provide in-patient service as part of their campaign for preventive medicine,” Arrozal said.
Essensa Spa and Aroma
Arrozal said Essensa Spa is offering various body massages like Essensa Signature with facial mask, Swedish, and Shiatsu; body and facial treatments like anti-stress, firming and slimming, detoxifying, scrubbing, anti-acne for the face and whitening; and others including foot massage, waxing, ventosa and reflexology.
She added that they will help AUFMC promote alternative medicine to people seeking therapy to prevent or eliminate stress and other illnesses.
Essensa Spa Manager Rodalee Nicasio-Lacson (center) and Staff
“The body treatments and massages are few of the best ways to fight stress. Too much stress affects our body’s immune system as well as resistance to illness. So if we help our body soothe and relax through treatments and massages, we have bigger chances of fighting stress,” Arrozal said.
Arrozal is also the owner of Coffee Academy in Balibago and AUFMC, as well as the NET@Fia Internet shops along Sto. Rosario St., Angeles City. (Story by Mini Arceo/Photos by Albert Lacanlale and MZA)
