Medidas Medical Center, Inc.

15/05/2026

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People, Planet, Profit: The MMCI ESG Strategy
We have already said, last month, on Earth Day, that there are no healthy individuals on a degraded planet. Some may not be obviously sick, but there could be mental anguish, suffering dignity, spiritual weakness in others. That is because we live in one planet, with common resources to share. Thus, for our corporate social responsibility we take PPP (people, planet, profit) as our ESG (environmental social governance) framework.

Our institutional development after the pandemic of 2020 to 2022, went like this: in 2022 we worked on recovering our health; in 2023 we worked on our Financial Health just for institutional viability; in 2024, we worked on our systems health for operational sustainability; in 2025, we started working on workforce health; this year, 2026, we are working on our workplace heath, and hopefully in 2027, we can work on corporate health as a whole with PPP as ESG. We adopted this strategy because we believe “Healthcare begins with people: our patients, our workforce, and the communities we serve” but we also need our system to work to sustain us and the planet we call home.
We are not perfect, nor would we likely be, but we can dream and work on that dream.

However, we cannot just dream for ourselves. That is why our unified PPP focus is important. It wraps up all our concerns as a healthcare facility. We should all stand by the belief that the success of MMCI is not measured by financial performance alone, but by how it cares for people, patients and workers alike; how it protects the environment; and how it sustains ethical and responsible growth. As much as possible, for example, our goal every day is we should have no casualty in our hands, yet we should remain accessible and affordable to all. So, we do the best we can. But before we can do the best, we should be able to achieve the best of ourselves.

Thus, our workplace should be safe, healthy and fair so we can deliver quality, compassionate care, in a safe and just environment, at the same time we prevent mental health and burnout for ourselves and grow in a manner healthy for all. All persons must feel that. This should be our internal balance for People.

The we go Planet. So, we go waste conscious: not use more than is needed. We go green. Do not allow water to flow unnecessarily, segregate solid waste, proper wastewater management, limit carbon dioxide production (no burning, planting trees and nurturing them), limit electricity consumption. At the same time we contribute to community health with our partnerships with the barangays, our outreach programs with YAKAP and GAMOT, and our conscious promotion of health habits like hand washing; all because a healing institution that must also avoid contributing to environmental harm.

Then we go Profit because all that should redound to good business practices for sustainability because institutional sustainability allows continued service to people and community. This is where risk reduction and management come in; also leadership and governance, integrity and accountability, and personal and institutional resilience, even ethical procurement and investments on people, like our scholarship programs, and on healthcare systems.

All these will shape MMCI as we go forward.

11/05/2026

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MMCI Health- Earth Day 2026

“There is no healthy person on a sick planet.” This month brings this message across loud and clear: World Health Day was observed last April 7th and World Earth Day will be observed on April 22nd. Today is the MMCI day for marking both: by looking at ways we can be healthy, for ourselves, our patients, and the world we inhabit in our workplace.

World Health Day marks the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948. It was first celebrated in 1950 to draw global attention to pressing health issues and since then, it has helped the world, including us, in many ways, mainly by understanding health issues mostly shrouded in mystery and magic before. Today, at least, we are participating in the implementation of the universal health care program, which the WHO, has advocated for all these many years. In addition, we are serious in embracing the YAKAP program of PhilHealth, designed not only to make real the universal health care law being implemented by our Department of Health (DOH) but also to make certain there is equitable access to health care. We have difficulties, yes, but we are certainly moving it.

MMCI is not only into quality health care services that makes us use our skills with polish but also into holistic, God-centered care
because we know that health is not just the absence of disease—it is complete physical, mental, and social well-being – which we try to achieve not only for our patients but for us and the community our God has assigned us to heal.

We are faced with various health issues that are concerning, even alarming within our working sphere: Rising non-communicable diseases (cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and mental health) and communicable diseases, HIV-AIDs, for example, and various infections with causative agents that were hitherto unknown when World Health Day was first observed. Then there are the rapidly escalating contagious diseases of the pocket, reason, and purpose that eat away our resilience, understanding, and joy. The good thing is that, at MMCI, we belong to a team that address all that and more.

World Earth Day may only be a socio-civic program calling attention to our ailing planet but it is a program that gained relevance because people understood that we cannot have healthy people on a planet that is on a sick bed That is why we have declared MMCI a green hospital not only because we are conscious of garbage segregation and pollution or that we have a tree planting program, but that we are also aware that Health and Earth Are Interdependent:

• Air pollution → respiratory diseases
• Contaminated food and water → infections
• Climate change → malnutrition, heat stress
• Environmental degradation → mental distress
• Cultural ambiguity → identity crisis
World Health Day asks: How are we?

World Earth Day asks: Where are we standing?
And the truth is—they are the same question.
Thus, at MMCI we ask: What do we do?

Religion tells us that we need to pray, purify our souls, and elevate our worries to God. Neuroscience has affirmed that there is indeed a kind of energy that heals in prayer. Further, neuroscience also tells us that giving pleasure to our brain by being creative, cooperative, and collaborative is another way to make ourselves healthy. Hence, our 2026 MMCI Arts Festival. Prepare for it. Participate in it. Enjoy it.

05/05/2026