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Philippine Heart Center

Philippine Heart Center is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Philippine Heart Center rather than just read about it. In short: The Philippine Heart Center is a hospital in Central, Quezon City, Philippines, specializing in the treatment of heart ailments. It was established on February 14, 1975.

Key takeaways

Philippine Heart Center belongs to biology; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Philippine Heart Center to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Philippine Heart Center from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Philippine Heart Center is a hospital in Central, Quezon City, Philippines, specializing in the treatment of heart ailments. It was established on February 14, 1975.

Background The Philippine Heart Center is a hospital specializing in the treatment of heart ailments. It has rooms for paying patients and charity patients and admits more than 14,000 patients every year, including 3,300 that undergo heart surgery. It holds regular training programs for medical professionals. It as one of the busiest congenital heart surgery centers in Asia, according to its website. It is currently headed by cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Avenilo L. Aventura Jr.

History The Philippine Heart Center was established through Presidential Decree No. 673 issued by president Ferdinand E. Marcos on February 14, 1975. The building is identified with what is referred to as the Marcoses' "edifice complex," defined by architect Gerard Lico as "an obsession and compulsion to build edifices as a hallmark of greatness." The hospital was built using 50% of the national health budget, according to Senator Jose W. Diokno, "while around the country, Filipinos were dying of curable illnesses like TB [tuberculosis], whooping cough, and dysentery."

Its original name was the Philippine Heart Center for Asia and was changed to its current form in 1975. The first patient to be admitted to the PHC was Imelda Francisco, on April 14, 1975. Cardiovascular specialists including Christiaan Barnard, Denton Cooley, Donald Effler, and Charles Bailey practised there. The first Director of the PHC was Avenilo P. Aventura (1974–1986), a cardiovascular surgeon who performed many pioneering operations in the Philippines including the first successful renal transplantation in 1970, the first CABG in 1972, and developed and implanted the first ASEAN bioprosthesis, the PHCA porcine valve. In 2014, the Philippine Heart Center was given a Qmentum International Gold Accreditation for August 2014 – 2017 by Accreditation Canada International for "excellence in hospital practices and safety. On June 13, 2024, Marcos, Jr. appointed Avenilo "Jun" L. Aventura Jr. M.D. as PHC's Executive Director.

Architecture and design The hospital building was designed by Filipino architect Jorge Ramos in what has been described as a Brutalist style. It was built in 1975 with a reported cost of almost US$50 million. It was co-founded by Dr. Ludgerio D. Torres.

References

External links Official website Media related to Philippine Heart Center at Wikimedia Commons

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Philippine Heart Center

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Philippine Heart Center claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Philippine Heart Center before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Philippine Heart Center ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Philippine Heart Center

In research: Philippine Heart Center appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Philippine Heart Center in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Philippine Heart Center is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Brutalist architecture in the Philippines, Buildings and structures in Quezon City, Establishments by Philippine presidential decree, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Philippine Heart Center outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Philippine Heart Center in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Philippine Heart Center means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
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Frequently asked questions

What is Philippine Heart Center in simple terms?

The Philippine Heart Center is a hospital in Central, Quezon City, Philippines, specializing in the treatment of heart ailments. It was established on February 14, 1975.

Why does Philippine Heart Center matter?

Because it connects several biology ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Philippine Heart Center?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Philippine Heart Center.