Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center
VSMMC is a general tertiary medical center teaching-training medical facility owned by the Philippine Government. It aims to provide health care services that are available, affordable, accessible and acceptable to all regardless of social status.
History and legal mandates
- 1911 to 1913Hospital del Sur to Southern Islands Hospital
Operation started as Hospital del Sur; formally established April 11, 1913, through Act 2725 that granted its legal status on January 12, 1913. Name changed to Southern Islands Hospital with only 30 beds at inception.
- June 1, 1992Republic Act No. 7588
Approved June 1, 1992, increasing bed capacity from 150 beds to 400 beds.
- June 22, 1998Republic Act No. 8658
Approved June 22, 1998, increasing bed capacity from 400 to 800 beds.
- April 26, 2016Republic Act No. 10770
Approved April 26, 2016, increasing bed capacity from 800 to 1,200 beds and appropriating funds therefor.
- April 29, 2022Republic Act No. 11717
Approved April 29, 2022, mandating increase from 1,200 to 1,500 beds. Implementing Rules and Regulations signed June 13, 2022, pursuant to Administrative Order 2022-0014, strengthening existing services and developing specialties and subspecialties while continuing as an end-referral hospital.
Apex and end-referral facility
As an apex or end-referral facility, VSMMC undertook the improvement of its equipment and facilities thereby ensuring that the hospital shall be responsive to the required care and service readily available to perform procedures at par with those from the private healthcare facilities.
Kalidad nga Serbisyo, Among Garbo!
Quality service is our pride!
Contact us
- B. Rodriguez Street, Sambag II, Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines 6000Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center
- Contact Number
- 0920 970 7617
- osm@vsmmc.doh.gov.ph
Quick links
- →About VSMMC
- →Online Appointment
- →E-Referral
- →Careers
- →Health Advisories
- →Daily Census
Latest news
- →Official statement: On patient watchers, companions, and the provision of temporary spaces outside the hospitalOctober 8, 2026
- →The PhilHealth Outpatient HIV/AIDS Treatment (OHAT) package is here to sustain your journey.October 8, 2026