Health Notions, Volume 5 Number 8 (August 2021) ISSN 2580-4936
276 | Publisher: Humanistic Network for Science and Technology
to health benefits for every Filipino. Additionally, the government continues to progress towards developing a
universal health care system ensuring the accessibility for all sorts of procedure for all the Filipinos.
Health could be a basic right guaranteed by the Philippine Constitution of 1987
(2)
. That provided the
Philippines with dual health delivery system composed of the public sector and private sector. The government shall
provide medical care, including preventive and promotive health services and other public health programs. The
administration should aim to produce financial risk protection for the Filipino people.
In addition,
(3)
monitoring and improving the qualities of health care be observed as key component in
achieving feedback.
(4)
Patient satisfaction is the most actors in appraising and assessing the standard. It is a big
parameter for judging the standard of service being provided by a service provider to the client. Moreover, it
also observed because the determinant of the viability and sustainability of healthcare services, effective, use of
healthcare resources, likelihood of continuously using health care services leading to better outcomes.
The Department of Health (DOH)
(5)
provides national policy direction and strategic plans, regulatory
services, standards, and guidelines for health. It also provides leadership, technical assistance, capacity building,
linkages and coordination with other national government agencies, Local Government Units (LGU’s) and
personal entities in implementing health policies.
Under the enactment of the regime Code of 1991
(6)
, LGU’s were fully granted autonomy and responsibility
for managing and implementing their own health programs and services, with the DOH providing technical
support. This consists of hospitals, barangay health stations, health units and health centers, including the private
sectors which are the clinics, infirmaries, laboratories, pharmaceuticals, health companies, academic and research
institutions.
Furthermore, under Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Memorandum Order No. 21 Series of 2000
and Memorandum order No. 09 Series of 2013
(7)
, which stipulate that student health services be included among
the Scholar Welfare Programs and Services of HEI’s. Guidelines which apply to both public and private Higher
Education Institution. It is stated in Section 27, Health services refers to the supply of primary healthcare and
wellness program. In Section 27.1, the Upper Education Institute shall provide primary health-care services
administered by licensed medical, dental, and allied professionals to any or all student. In Section 27.2, there shall
be adequate facilities for health care and updated health records, including disability records for college kids with
disabilities that are kept and maintained as required by the Department of Health and Other Related agencies. In
Section 27. 3, there shall be mechanisms to push a healthy lifestyle like, but not limited to, healthy diet, physical
activities, and no smoking and drinking of alcoholic beverages and misuse, and to produce a healthy environment
not only inside the campus but also outside the college premises. And under Section 27.4, the varsity shall provide
policies, and an environment which will enable the practice of healthy lifestyle.
The University is one among the Higher Education Institutions within the Philippines, composed of
thousands of student and employees. As matter of fact, the University is one of the most important within the
province. And one among the Universities which features a functional university clinic or infirmary being manned
by health personnel and other allied professionals.
The highly provision of good and quality health care services is indeed a highly difficult challenge to take.
The density of implementation of health service requires a mass involvement to alleviate the development it needs
to sustain quality and effectivity to various phenomenal issues or situations. However, to coagulate a health care
services it needs some improvements especially that the situation is being modernize and develop by various
innovations and researches that therefore be inoculated to the system and be applied to the environment for better
implementation and utilization. Furthermore, the improvement that could take would make progress and
difference from what it is being utilize from current to future happenings. Nevertheless, the catalytic changes
would be much better need today’s situations and that would be input thru comprehensively decisions and
assessments.
Hence, the researchers were driven to assess the programs and implementation of the health services
delivered by the University, the way it is attained and utilized by the employees and staff of the University, and
also to assess the satisfaction of the delivery of health services being rendered by the provider and institution.
METHODS
The researchers utilized a descriptive research design for the conduct of the study for it will assess the
programs and health services of the University, moreover, on the perceived client’s satisfaction using the three
dimension: accessibility, provider, and quality of the implementation of the health services.
The respondent who participated in this study were 111 faculty and staff of the University from different
colleges.
In gathering of the data, the researchers followed these processes in the conduct of the study. The
researchers proposed a title and submitted it to the research professor after was approved. Secured a letter in the
conduct of the study and sought permission from the University Administrator for its conduct. After approval, the
researchers prepared the instrument to be used in the conduct of the study. Afterwhich, administered and retrieved