Administrative Order No. 68-A series of 1989, particularly Section 17.2 thereof provides that:

"A provisional license shall be granted to a hospital for a duration of three (3) to six (6) months in the meantime that all the necessary requirements and standards governing their operations are not fully complied with."

Pursuant to the above-cited provision, all Owners, Medical Directors. Administrators of private and government hospitals, and all others concerned, are hereby enjoined to follow strictly the following guidelines:

1. All hospitals which are unable to comply with licensing requirements of the Bureau shall be granted provisional license to operate under exceptional cases only.

2. At least one (1) month prior to the expiration of the provisional license, all hospitals concerned shall file with the Bureau a written request for its extension and shall speci1r therein the grounds relied upon. In addition and during the same period, they shall formally inform the Bureau whether the necessary corrections of the deficiencies noted in the last inspection were already initiated by them. In this connection, evidence of correction shall be forwarded to the Bureau in support thereof.

3. Failure to comply with the guidelines set forth in this Order, no request for extension shall be granted by this Bureau, and as a consequence thereof, the hospital concerned shall be considered as operating without a license:

4. Any hospital found to be operating with an expired provisional license and without being granted an extension, shall accordingly be dealt with administratively.

Adopted: 30 Mar. 1993

(SGD.) NELIA DIVINA-TANIO, M.D., MHA
Medical Specialist IV
Officer-In-Charge

(SGD.) MARGARITA GALON, M.D. MHA
Officer-In-Charge
Office for Health Facilities
Standards and Regulation