Ramos General Hospital was founded by Dra. Cristeta Ramos-Tabamo in 1940. It is a tertiary hospital located in the province of Tarlac, about 120 kilometers north of Manila. Its mission is to provide the best medical services within Tarlac and its neighboring provinces.
The hospital started out as a clinic to respond to the various health needs of the people in the community. After the graduation of Dra. Cristeta Ramos-Tabamo from the University of Sto. Tomas, College of Medicine in 1938 and a year of residency training at the Tarlac Provincial Hospital, she put up the Ramos Maternity Clinic in her place of residence. Together with her sister, Marcela Ramos, who was then a nurse in Tarlac Provincial Hospital, they served the patients in the clinic. Its original intention was to be a consultation clinic but because of personal service and heart for the people, they could not refuse the patients who requested to stay for further treatment. Soon after, because of demand, the clinic became a primary hospital. Needless to say, it became well known in the different municipalities of Tarlac serving the people from all sectors of the society.
In 1945, right after the war, Dr. Alfonso Ramos, a relative and noted surgeon, encouraged to put up an operating room facility for the hospital. New hospital equipments were also acquired. It became a secondary hospital with 20-bed capacity. Additional facilities were placed to cater to the veteran patients, who at that time, during the post war period were privileged of free hospitalization through the US government aid.
Soon, a young and progressive surgeon Dr. Roman L. Belmonte, Jr. fresh from his training from the American College of Surgeon in the United States, married the daughter of Dra. Cristeta Tabamo. With his leadership and administration, the hospital continued to grow. They continued to acquire new and modern equipment, installed new systems, and became a four-storey building with 50-bed capacity. It was inaugurated on October 27, 1972 as the Ramos General Hospital.
In order to provide the best medical services to more people in the community, the Ramos-Tabamo family entered into a corporation with Dr. Juan Talon and family, who at that time owned a clinic. The plan was to make Talon’s clinic a diagnostic center, thereby forming Tarlac Medical Specialist Center, Inc. in 1975. However, the plan did not work. Instead, the clinic became a hospital and competitor of Ramos General Hospital. After five years, the corporation was dissolved.
During the early 1980’s, the Ramos General Hospital faced a different kind of challenge. Many clinics and hospitals have emerged in the province, doctors have come and go. In order to continue the growth in medical services, the management felt the need to incorporate young breed of doctors in the hospital. Thus, in 1984, the CRT Medical and Technological Services, was incorporated. It is currently the managing corporation and operator of Ramos General Hospital. The owners of the hospital are now composed of doctors and businessmen.
Today, the hospital has the support of a group of medical specialists in all fields. Some have become incorporators and Board of Directors, most of them are active medical staff who provides maximum health care services to the patients.
Ramos General Hospital has gone a long way. At present, it has complete facilities for Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Pediatrics, Pathology and Laboratory Diagnostic Services, Radiology, Ct-Scan, Mammography, Ultrasonography, GI Endoscopy, Pulmonary and Urological Endoscopy