Iloilo Mission Hospital (also referred to as Mission Hospital, Mission or IMH) is a private tertiary, training

and teaching hospital located in Jaro, Iloilo City, Philippines. It was established in 1901 by Joseph Andrew Hall,
a Physician and missionary of the Presbyterian Foreign Mission Board, is the
first Protestant and American founded hospital in the Philippines (Second American Hospital in Asia after
the Canton Hospital in China). The hospital pioneered the Nursing Education in the Philippines through the
establishment of the Union Mission Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1906, the present day Central
Philippine University College of Nursing.

In 2001, Iloilo Mission Hospital celebrated its centennial, commemorating its century of existence and its
contribution since its founding in 1901 to the Philippine and American colonial history in the Philippines and in
Asia as it pioneered the Nursing education in the Philippines, as the first Protestant founded hospital in the
country and the second American hospital in Asia.

Founding
When the Philippines was ceded by Spain in 1898 to the United States thought the Treaty of Paris (1898), the
country was opened to a kind faith where the Americans brought the Protestantism. One of the
early Protestant sects that came to the Philippines islands where the Presbyterians. That time when the
Presbyterian Americans came to the Philippines, they were allowed to go in different places in the islands to do
their mission works, and Iloilo is the very first place that they came because it was during that era that
the Iloilo is second next important after Manila in terms of economic progress because of the sugar industry
boom in the area

In 1905, a lot was purchased on Iznart Street, and in March of the following year, a new hospital was opened to
take the place of the bamboo clinic and was named Union Mission Hospital.

The school Union Mission Hospital was later renamed to Iloilo Mission Hospital School of Nursing before it was
transferred to the Central Philippine College (the second forerunner of the Central Philippine University) after
the post World War II. Other nursing schools in the Philippines that was later built followed and were patterned
after the system that the Iloilo Mission Hospital School of Nursing has since then.

American directors
The hospital was run by the American protestants from its foundation in 1906 until the early 1940s. The last
American director of the hospital was Henry S. Waters in 1948. It was during the Waters administration that the
operation of the Iloilo Mission Hospital Training School for Nurses was transferred to Central Philippine
University.

 Joseph Andrew Hall, M.D. (1901-1925)

 Raphael Thomas, M.D. (1907–1926)
 Dwight L. Johnson, M.D. (1926-1931)
 Percy Chandler Grigg, M.D.(1930–1934)
 Henry S. Waters, M.D. (1934-1948)
 Dorothy Kenny Chambers, M.D. (1940-1941)