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Eastern Visayas Medical Center
Eastern Visayas Medical Center
Geography
Location	Tacloban, Leyte, Eastern Visayas, Philippines
Coordinates	11°15′06″N 125°00′17″E / 11.2515671°N 125.0047052°E
Organization
Funding	Government hospital
Type	tertiary level teaching and training hospital
Services
Beds	500
History
Opened	July 16, 1916 (Leyte Provincial Hospital as the oldest merged entity) ; June 18, 1966 (Speaker Daniel Z. Romualdez Memorial City Hospital as the surviving entity)
Links
Website	evrmc.doh.gov.ph

The Eastern Visayas Medical Center (EVMC) is a tertiary level teaching and training government hospital in the Philippines.

On June 18, 1966, the then Speaker Daniel Z. Romualdez Memorial City Hospital was established as a general hospital in Tacloban with service capacity of one hundred beds.^[1] On July 22, 1972, the Speaker Daniel Z. Romualdez Memorial City Hospital became the surviving entity when the Leyte Provincial Hospital and the Tacloban City Hospital were merged with it.^[2] During this time, its capacity was increased to two hundred fifty beds.^[3] It was renamed as Tacloban City Medical Center on November 12, 1986 ^[4] and again renamed as Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center (EVRMC) on March 24, 1992.^[5] In 2009, it was authorized by the national law to expand into a five hundred bed hospital.^[6] In 2021, the word "regional" was dropped from its name^[7] and its service capacity was further increased to 1500 beds.^[8]

References

^ Philippine Republic Act 4764 Section 1
^ Philippine Republic Act 6527 Section 3
^ Philippine Republic Act 6527 Section 2
^ Memorandum Order No. 48, s. 1986 issued by the Office of the President of the Philippines
^ Philippine Republic Act 7289 Section 1
^ Philippine Republic Act 9793 Section 4
^ Philippine Republic Act 11567 Section 1
^ Philippine Republic Act 11567 Section 2