Manila City Mayor Francisco “Isko” Moreno Domagoso noted Sta. Ana Hospital’s ranking at 25th among 35 Philippine hospitals included in the World’s Best Hospitals 2026 – Philippines list released by Newsweek in partnership with Statista.

The city government earlier implemented modernization efforts in its district hospitals, including Sta. Ana Hospital, with facility upgrades and expanded services.

Sta. Ana Hospital is part of the Manila City Health Cluster led by OIC-City Health Officer Dr. Grace Padilla, its former director, and is currently headed by Dr. Janet Tan.

Among the upgrades was the establishment of a vaccine storage facility to ensure cold-chain integrity during the citywide COVID-19 vaccination rollout.

The facility houses Haier HYC-390 refrigeration units for AstraZeneca and Sinovac vaccines, biomedical freezers for Janssen and Moderna doses, and -86°C ultra-low temperature freezers for Pfizer vaccines, along with transport coolers for deployment to vaccination sites.

The city government also operationalized the Manila Molecular Testing Laboratory within the hospital complex, expanding local testing capacity during the pandemic.

The laboratory includes an RT-PCR molecular facility capable of performing up to 1,000 swab tests per day per machine using two Sansure RT-PCR machines, as well as an Xpert Xpress SARS-CoV-2 cartridge-based rapid molecular testing system. Sta. Ana Hospital became an LGU-run district hospital to house two types of molecular laboratories.

Further efforts included the creation of a Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Medicine and Robotics Center equipped with Hybrid Assistive Limb units.

The hospital also established a dialysis center as part of its specialized treatment services.

There are 11 dialysis seats, six Fresenius hemodialysis machines, additional HD units, two machines with portable reverse osmosis, a HEPA filtration system, a negative pressure room for infectious patients, and emergency equipment including ECG and defibrillator units.

During the pandemic, Sta. Ana Hospital served as the site of the Manila Infectious Disease Control Center, which houses 33 isolation wards to support infectious disease management alongside its molecular laboratories.

The city government likewise opened a new intensive care unit to expand critical care capacity for COVID-19 and non-COVID patients.

The hospital received a 97/100 rating from the Metro Manila Center for Health Development – Health Facility Development and Enhancement Unit under the Department of Health during the COVID-19 response assessment. It has secured Level III General Hospital accreditation from the Department of Health, Provisional I Accreditation for its Internal Medicine Residency Training Program from the Philippine College of Physicians, and retained its Mother+Baby-Friendly Hospital accreditation.

Newsweek said the World’s Best Hospitals 2026 ranking evaluated more than 2,500 hospitals across 32 countries, with institutions scored based on medical expert recommendations, hospital quality metrics, patient experience data and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures.