Administrative Order No. 2023-0014

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New Implementing Rules and Regulations of Republic Act No. 8200, “An Act Converting the Rizal Memorial District Hospital in Dapitan City into a Tertiary Hospital Under the Full Administrative and Technical Supervision of the Department of Health, which shall be Known as the Dr. Jose Rizal Memorial Hospital, and Appropriating Funds Therefor”

Download the issuance: A.O. No. 2023-0014 dated September 5, 2023

Sets the new IRR of R.A. No. 8200, and pertains only to the provisions of this Act; includes the operations and management of Dr. Jose Rizal Memorial Hospital and the implementation of the Act. Repeals the IRR first issued by the DOH as A.O. No. 2015-0041 on September 15, 2015.

See also: R.A. No. 8200

READ: Department Memorandum (DM) No. 2023-0150, "Guidance in the Celebration of World Patient Safety Day 2023," and DM No. 2023-0283, "Supplemental Guidance to the Celebration of World Patient Safety Day 2023"

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