Santa Ana Hospital is a 10-storey, 500-bed city-run hospital located in New Panaderos Street,

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. It is also one of the six district hospitals of the City of

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, catering its 6th district, which consists of Santa Ana,

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, and the northern portion of

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. It stands on the site of an earlier hospital, Trinity Hospital, which moved to a new location nearby in 1998. It was built through the partnership of the City of

and

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's Tan Yan Kee Foundation. Tan wanted to name the hospital after his mother or father, while the city wanted to name it for former

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. Both sides agreed on using the present name. The hospital was established on December 29, 2009, by virtue of Budget Ordinance 8206 passed by the

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during the term of

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. Construction started in 2009 and was completed in April 2010, with the hospital opening on April 28. On July 30, 2021, the hospital became a

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center, the third of its kind in the city.

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{{Manila hospitals Hospital buildings completed in 2010 Buildings and structures in Santa Ana, Manila Hospitals in Manila