REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6548 - AN
ACT FURTHER AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN,
AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE REVISED CHARTER OF QUEZON CITY
Section 1.
Section seventeen of Republic Act Numbered Five hundred thirty-seven,
as amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 17. City Departments. — There shall be the
following city departments over which the Mayor shall have direct
supervision and control, any existing law to the contrary
notwithstanding:
1. Department of Engineering
2. Department of Finance
3. Law Department
4. Department of Health
5. Police Department
6. Department of Assessment
7. Fire Department
8. Quezon City General Hospital
“The Council may from time to time make such readjustment of the duties
of the several departments as the public interest may demand."
Sec. 2. The same Act, as amended, is further
amended by inserting between Articles XIV and XV thereof a new article
to be known as Article XIV-A, which shall read as follows:
"ARTICLE XIV-A. — Quezon City General Hospital
"Sec. 65-A. Director of Hospital, Duties and Powers.
— There shall be a Director of Hospital to be appointed by the City
Mayor, who shall administer, direct, coordinate, and control the Quezon
City General Hospital including its administration, hospital services,
medical activities, and community relations, to the end that it may
achieve its objectives of providing in-patient treatment, ambulatory
and domiciliary care, and preventive services, and serve as a medical
center for the training of health workers and the advancement of
medical science through bio-social research. The Director of Hospital
shall receive compensation based on subsisting salary laws, shall enjoy
the rank and privileges of a head of department, and shall have the
following powers and duties:
"(a) To formulate in writing the general and specific
goals of the hospital, and of each hospital department and service, and
the basic guidelines to attain such goals;
"(b) To develop a program of patient care and
hospital administration that shall include the establishment,
management, operation and maintenance of a hospital organization with
clearly defined lines of administration, operational and professional
authority and responsibility, functional relationships, and lines of
communication and coordination among its various administrative and
operational units and positions involved in the clinical and nursing
aspects of patient care, budgeting and finance, personnel
administration, procurement, purchase and supply, buildings and grounds
maintenance, housekeeping, and other hospital services;
"(c) To provide for the continued improvement of the
hospital and its facilities and services, and for the training of all
hospital personnel so that the highest professional level of patient
care may be maintained in accordance with the requirements of the
Department of Health ;
"(d) To recommend to the City Council such measures
or ordinances, including the annual budget of the hospital, in the form
and with the contents prescribed by the City Council, as may be deemed
necessary for the operation and maintenance of the hospital and for its
providing medical care and to execute and enforce all laws, ordinances,
rules, and regulations pertaining to patient care and other hospital
matters;
"(e) To levy, collect and receive charges and/or fees
due to the hospital for goods and/or services provided for pay
patients, and to solicit and receive donations to the hospital in cash
or in kind, as authorized by law and ordinances, and by the rules and
regulations of the Department of Health ;
"(f) To receive and remit to the city treasurer for
safekeeping all the money arising from income and revenues of the
hospital or, with the approval of the City Council, to a government
depository, and to spend or disburse the said funds in accordance with
the provisions of this amendatory Act and with governmental hospital
accounting and auditing procedures;
"(g) To purchase and issue medicines, supplies and
materials, equipment and property required by the hospital for its
operation and maintenance, subject to availability of funds or
appropriations therefore as certified by the city treasurer and to the
general provisions of laws relating to purchases, and to supervise the
proper use and care of hospital property including the maintenance and
protection of its buildings and grounds, fixtures and equipment;
"(h) To account for the funds, property, and other
assets of the hospital, and as such, to establish and maintain separate
books of accounts under an accounting unit of the hospital, to keep
records and accounts, to render an accounting of funds and property and
other assets of the hospital, and to submit to the City Council, the
city treasurer, and the city auditor as representative of the Auditor
General, such reports as may be required by law and ordinances;
"(i) To promote cooperation and coordination with
other hospitals, the city health department, health centers and other
health and medical service agencies and associations with a view to the
enhancement of community welfare, and to solicit, receive and account
for aid received from socio-civic groups or individuals to supplement
the needs of the hospital; and,
"(j) To perform such other duties and functions not
contrary to existing laws, ordinances, or rules and regulations, with
reference to medical care, as the Department of Health may require
and/or as the City Council or the City Mayor may assign.
"Sec. 65-B. — Hospital Officers and Employees. — The hospital shall
have one Assistant Director for Professional Services and one Assistant
Director for Administration, who shall assist the Director in the
management of the professional and administrative operations of the
hospital, hospital department heads, a chief of each of the major
services of the hospital (administrative, clinical, medical-ancillary,
nursing, dietary and engineering), and such number of medical
consultants and resident physicians and other hospital employees as may
from time to time be provided for in appropriations ordinances and in
accordance with the requirements and standards of the hospital staffing
pattern set by the Department of Health. The said officers and
employees shall be appointed by the City Mayor upon recommendation of
the Director of Hospital, subject to the Civil Service Law, rules and
regulations.
"Sec. 65-C. — Financing of the City General Hospital. — In order to
carry out the objectives of the hospital including the construction of
hospital buildings, completion of its physical plant, and the operation
and maintenance of all pay and free beds therein, the hospital shall be
financed from the following sources:
"(a) A city general hospital fund for which the city
government shall appropriate, out of the funds of the city treasury not
otherwise appropriated, such sum or sums as may from year to year be
necessary for the operation and maintenance of the hospital, based on
the annual budgetary request submitted by the Director of Hospital, to
be included in the annual general appropriations ordinance of the city
government;
"(b) Funds from the city treasury appropriated from
time to time by the city government in support of particular or
specific programs or projects of the hospital;
"(c) Income or revenues arising from charges and/or
fees levied and collected from pay patients and cash donations due to
the hospital which shall accrue to a city general hospital revolving
fund to support pay beds: provided, that the hospital shall establish,
operate and maintain pay beds in accordance with the rules and
regulations of the Department of Health;
"(d) Funds which may be received as aid from or
through the National Government from time to time in support of the
hospital or any of its programs or projects;
"(e) All savings, unexpended balances and/or
budgetary surpluses of the hospital derived from the sources mentioned
in the preceding subparagraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) of this section
which shall, at the end of each fiscal year or after the completion of
the specific program or project, accrue to a city general hospital
development fund to be used, with the approval of the City Council, for
additional operating expenses, including purchase of equipment,
improvement of existing hospital facilities, and construction and/or
expansion of buildings.
"Sec. 65-D. — Status of Incumbent Hospital Officers and Employees. —
All incumbent officers and employees holding positions in the hospital
mentioned in this Act shall receive effective on the date of its
approval whatever salary increases and allowances may be due them under
existing salary laws and ordinances of the city, without the necessity
of new appointments: provided, however, that for a period of two years
after the approval of this Act the Director of the hospital shall
receive a salary of not more than twenty thousand pesos.
Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
(Lapsed into law on August 26,
1972.)
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