St. Luke’s Medical Center (SLMC) ensured patients of a smart-ready hospital in Aseana City in Parañaque which will be equipped with digital technologies and house several specialty centers.

SLMC president and CEO Dr. Dennis Serrano on Thursday said the new hospital is expected to be opened in 2030, a year later than his initial projection, partly due to the redesigning of structures and expansion plans for specialty centers.

SLMC expects to break ground for the Aseana hospital in the latter part of the year or in early 2026.

“The cause for the delay was our need for smart readiness. We had to go back to the schematic design of the hospital, thinking of what we really need,” he said Thursday in a meeting with the media at St. Luke’s Bonifacio Global City, Taguig.

Serrano said the redesign for the Aseana-based hospital came to mind after visiting smart hospitals in multiple countries and territories, including South Korea, Germany, Japan and Hong Kong.

“We have consultants from the US that tell us this is the trend. We have to make projections on what healthcare will be like in 2030,” he added.

Serrano said patients in the Aseana hospital will be digitally connected, resulting in faster but high-quality medical services which include patient monitoring or emergency response.

“From the time you board the ambulance, all vitals are being monitored already at the hospital so we’ll know what to prepare in the emergency room,” he shared.

“All laboratory tests are also automated and monitoring of patients is centralized. Our doctors can see how 15 to 20 patients are doing in their rooms based on their vitals monitoring at the nurse stations,” Serrano continued.