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15/03/2024

Issue 10

Dr. Percida Soriano-Cocos shared the Principles of Successful Living, drawing from biblical teachings in Philippians 4:13. Dr. Soriano-Cocos recounted her journey to success, emphasizing the role of faith amidst financial challenges and personal trials.

08/03/2024

Issue 9

Drawing inspiration from Proverbs 31:10-31, the event highlighted the virtues of a woman's valor and her limitless potential. Chaplain Wanee Salayon of Pastoral Care emphasized the value of women, likening it to precious rubies, and encouraged all women to strive for excellence.

01/03/2024

Issue 8

AMCM President & CEO, insightful presentation not only provided strategic guidance but also served as a testament to AMCM's commitment to innovation and leadership in the healthcare sector. As the industry navigates unprecedented challenges, his words serve as a beacon for organizations striving for growth and sustainability.

23/02/2024

Issue 7

Indeed, it echoes the fulfillment of God's promise that His people will bear witness not only locally but also across the nation and beyond.

22/02/2024

Issue 6

22/02/2024

Issue 5

22/02/2024

Issue 4

16/02/2024

Manila Adventist College holds the 19th Capping, Pinning and Candle lighting Ceremony on February 8, 2024 with 133 Level 2 BSN students. Ms. Patty Jo Toor, Ms. Evelyn Marlowe , Ms. Evelyn Duron and Mr. Owen Gregory from AdventHealth Orlando grace the occasion with their presence and inspire student nurses to be beacons of light in their healthcare journey.

16/02/2024

AMCM celebrates the heart month with a blast!
Internal Medicine-Cardiology and Patient Relations Department gives with:

💙 Spot Cholesterol
💙 Random Blood Sugar
💙 Blood Pressure Measurement
💙 Ankle Brachial Index

Happy heart month to all!

16/02/2024

AMCM celebrates the heart month with a blast!
Internal Medicine - Cardiology and Patient Relations Department gives with:

💙 Blood Sugar Level
💙 Blood Pressure Measurement
💙 Spot Cholesterol
💙 Ankle Brachial Index
💙 Consultation
💙 Lecture

Happy heart month!

02/02/2024

Adventist Medical Center Manila greets the Philippine Marketing Association a happy, healthy, and hopeful 70th Anniversary, and extends a warm congratulations to its new officers as they set-off to do their duties in creating avenues for Philippine Marketers to network and grow together!

Special thanks for recognizing us with the Haligi Awards, as a testament of our loyalty for twenty years!

26/01/2024

3rd Issue 2024 Friday 26

Vibrant Red Wave Sweeps Through AMCM Townhall

19/01/2024

AMCM President Mr. Jun Apacible explicitly announced that leadership development is a priority, and the team responded with the “AMCM Governance, Leadership, and Direction (GLD) Program” for roll-out this 2024. Everyone

19/01/2024

The year 2024 begins on an extraordinary note for AMCM, charting a course of excellence that resonates in every aspect of its operations. Everyone

19/01/2024

AMCM President Mr. Jun Apacible explicitly announced that leadership development is a priority, and the team responded with the “AMCM Governance, Leadership, and Direction (GLD) Program” for roll-out in 2024. Seventh-day Adventist Church Adventist Living South Philippine Adventist College Aniban Seventh- Day Adventist Church Pagsanjan Seventh Day Adventist Church Seventh-day Adventist Church - Bacag Villasis Pangasinan Adventist Church Seventh-day Adventist Church Biserica Adventista de ziua a Şaptea - Graz Adventist Events Everyone Dagatan Seventh-day Adventist Church Dagatan Seventh-day Adventist Church Dagatan Adventist Elementary School Dagatan Adventist Elementary School, Inc. Dagatan Aes Adventist Dagatan Adventist Elementary School

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12/01/2024

12/01/2024

The year 2024 begins on an extraordinary note for AMCM (Adventistist Medical Center Manila), charting a course of excellence that resonates in every aspect of its operations. AdventistMed Health Link

01/11/2023

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18/01/2023

The Manila Sanitarium Foundation Inc. (MSFI) is excited to announce that registration is now open for our 34th Golf Classic Tournament!
Get your foursome together and join us on Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at the spectacular Zamora Championship Course for a day of food, fun, and friendly competition.

There will be chances to win awesome prizes and support a great cause. Click on this link https://rb.gy/f45nlg and scan the QR code on the poster to register.

09/02/2022

Big congratulations to our new set of leaders, who will carry on and advance the mission of our institution.

God bless to all of you and more power in your mission-oriented leadership.

08/02/2022

Philippine Supreme Court chooses Manila Adventist College as one of the local testing centers for Bar Examination for years 2020-2021

Manila Adventist College (MAC), the only Adventist Law School with a Juris Doctor Program in the world, has been chosen by the Philippine Supreme Court to be one of the 29 local testing centers which will conduct the historic 2020/2021 Bar Examinations, the first digital and localized test for aspiring lawyers in the Philippines on February 4 and February 6, 2022. [Full story at http://adventist.asia/news/philippine-supreme-court-chooses-manila-adventist-college-as-one-of-the-local-testing-centers-for-bar-examination-for-years/

03/01/2022

Because of the health concerns of our healthcare workers, AdventistMed is now constrained to close temporarily several sections of the hospital.

Starting 6:00 pm today, January 3, 2022, AdventistMed will no longer admit patients. However, the Emergency Department will continue providing services FOR NON-ADMISSIBLE CASES ONLY. Meanwhile, please seek admissions at other hospitals.

To consult your doctor, you may avail of our TELEMEDICINE thru bit.ly/adventistmedph ❤

18/10/2021

JOIN our AdventistMed Department of Internal Medicine's 1st Virtual Postgraduate Course entitled, "I.M. WHOLE: A Holistic Approach to Patient Care."

October 26-27, 2021, Tuesday & Wednesday, 4:00 PM-7:30 PM via ZOOM.

REGISTER NOW FOR FREE! 😉
Just scan the QR code on the poster or you may visit https://bit.ly/IMWhole

Interesting topics on how to be "WHOLE" and improve your well-being will be delivered by our distinguished speakers. A list of topics can be seen once you register.

SPECIAL RAFFLE PRIZES await you!

08/09/2021

Our January-June 2021 digital newsletter is now available. Claim your copy of HealthLink issue #1 today at the link below.
http://tiny.cc/HLJanJun2021

02/07/2021

Adventist Medical Center Manila held a ribbon-cutting ceremony and dedication program to celebrate the launching of the new Nutrition Support Unit (NSU) located beside the Dietary Food Service Department on May 17, 2021. It was attended by the members of the Administrative Council, Department Heads, and workers of the hospital.

“Nutrition plays an important role in the patient management and should not be neglected especially in critical cases”, mentioned by Dr. Linda Lim-Varona, director of the Lifestyle Medicine and Medical Education departments of AdventistMed, in her keynote message during the opening program of NSU.

The establishment of a Nutrition Support Unit is an important indicator of quality care in the hospital. Patients’ simple nutritional status is still not considered a sufficient medical priority Despite numerous advancements in medical/clinical care and continuous constant efforts on nutrition education development, the simple correction of a patient’s nutritional status still appears to be overlooked or not considered as a sufficient medical priority. Identification of Nutritionally-At-Risk (NARs) patients is an essential solution to Malnutrition. Malnutrition is prevalent around the world, it is a burden both to patients and health care facilities and we cannot treat malnourished patients without identifying Nutritionally-at-risk (NARs) patients. Unidentified malnutrition not only heightens the risk of adverse complications for patients, increased muscle loss, impaired wound healing, a longer length of hospital stay, and increased morbidity and mortality. Nutrition screening upon hospital admission has just recently been mandatory, thanks to Administrative Order No. 2019-0033 “Guidelines for the Implementation of Nutrition Care Process in Hospitals.” This mandate provides all public hospitals and also private hospitals to operationalize and institutionalize the Nutrition Care Process. Aside from that, Department Memorandum No.2020-0138 “Interim Guidelines for Registered Nutritionist-Dietitians in Hospitals on the Nutritional and Dietary Management of Suspected, Probable and Confirmed Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Patients and on the Provision of Healthy Diet in Hospital Workforce” is another new mandate that can help better address nutritional needs and provide standard nutrition intervention for COVID-19 patients and to ensure the nutritional needs of the healthcare workers.

“There are overwhelming demands of nutritional care and it is only time that this new unit has been established. It is with great pride and honor to join the more than 10 tertiary hospitals in following the gold standard implementers of the nutrition program in the Philippines”, said Dr. Frances Gail M. Turalba, Internal Medicine-Clinical Nutrition Specialist, clinical head of NSU. With Sharlou Joreme L. Fajardo, NSU clinical dietitian, AdventistMed NSU will work hand in hand to improve patient care through the correct and appropriate implementation of nutritional management to in-patient, out-patient, or intermediate-care patients by using a multidisciplinary approach to nutrition management, that includes the correct and appropriate use of enteral and parenteral nutrition.

24/06/2021

“Your DNA is not your destiny,” says an article in the January 2010 issue of Time magazine. In short, we do not have to get the diseases that our parents suffered from.

Let us delve briefly into epigenetics (Read on, it’s not as complex as it sounds!) Each of our chromosomes contains 50% DNA and 50% protein molecules, the latter containing switches that can turn the genes in the DNA on and off. Identical twins have the same genes, that’s why they are remarkably similar. A study of 80 sets of identical twins found around 1200 gene expression differences in the 3-year old twins and as much as 5500 differences in the 50-year old twins. The correlation of gene expression was found in the epigenome or gene switches. The older the twins grew, the more different they became - mainly because of life choices. (Fraga et al 2007.)

Another study showed that the most powerful way to change the switch setting is by what we eat – which brings us to the new science of nutrigenomics. (Gallou-Kabani et al 2007.)

Many scientific studies have shown that a low-fat, high-fiber plant-based diet can effectively prevent, arrest and even reverse lifestyle-related diseases like diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and cancer. Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. did a 20-year follow-up on 18 patients who had severe coronary artery blockage, with a total of 49 coronary events already, like heart attack and bypass surgery. He put them on a plant-based, low-fat diet. Only one of the 18 patients suffered chest pain during the study period and that was when he strayed for a while from the diet. The rest were all symptom-free. Eleven patients agreed to have a repeat angiogram which showed a remarkable lessening of coronary artery blockage.

The China Study by Dr. T. Colin Campbell is a must-read because it shows the major role of diet in the development not only of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and common cancers (breast, prostate, colorectal) but also of auto-immune diseases like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis.
Please also check out these articles The Blue Zone: Lessons for living longer by Dan Buettner (2008) National Geographic Society p. 227; Vegetarian diets: what do we know of their effects on common chronic diseases?, by Dr. Gary Fraser (2009) American Journal of Clinical Nutrition vol. 89 no. 5.

In case you’re interested in a lifestyle-related approach to disease prevention, treatment, and reversal, enroll now in our new and very own Lifestyle Is Medicine Intervention Program offered by the Lifestyle Medicine Department of Adventist Medical Center Manila.

“The Advantages of a Vegetarian Diet”
by Dr. Odelind Conchada-Flores

Dr. Najla Conchada-Flores is a board-certified and diplomate in the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine and a founding member of the Philippine College of Lifestyle Medicine. She is also one of our consultant physicians in our Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Adventist Medical Center Manila.