North of the city, near a bus terminal in the village of Bata, (short for Bacolod-Talisay) the Allied Care Experts hospital will soon rise.
Its founders, close to 40 physicians from Manila, Iloilo and Bacolod who are top in their field say it will be different.
It promises to be a “green” one, a multi million peso medical facility that will become part of the changing city skyline now dotted with high-rise buildings, condominiums and residential areas in various stages of construction.
Physician Kaye Parreno-Bautista, one of the 25 co-founder doctors in Bacolod, said the 248-bed, seven storey hospital will be developed on a one hectare property.
Just recently, ACE had a virtual awarding and signing of contract to its general contractor, Unitan Corporation that will undertake the construction of the facility that promises to be cutting-edge, state-of-the-art and compliant with international standards “yet offer excellent health care services in an affordable, patient-oriented approach.”
Physician Jimmy Pacete, surgeon, founder, and chairman of the construction committee, called the recent event a “milestone” in the process of building a “memorial as a marker of God’s goodness, His faithfulness and steadfast love.”
A life that practices honesty, justice, integrity, gentleness, patience and kindness marks a life that is a living sacrifice, that is holy and acceptable to God, serving as a spiritual act of worship. As we labor to make this hospital, and our lives as markers, let us commit to bring the fruit of the Spirit that God can only produce in our lives, in faith. And this will be supernaturally done by the Holy Spirit Himself in each of us.”
Bautista, however, says that in the end ACE Hospital, hopes” to inculcate among our physicians, workers and clients a compassionate and caring heart for the Negrense.”
(News & photo courtesy of DNX News)