The Maria Reyna-Xavier University Hospital (MR-XUH) on August 20 blessed and inaugurated a new three-storey building, which houses an additional 30 private patient rooms and a cafeteria.

Archbishop Antonio Ledesma SJDD led the rite of blessing assisted by MR-XUH President Fr Roberto Yap SJ and Fr Gil Escalante SSJV.

The private rooms are spacious and very modern. Each room has a stand-by medical apparatus, a sleeping chair, telephone and wall-mounted cable television to ensure the most comfort for the patient. The cafeteria, on the other hand, is cozy and has an al fresco dining.

This newly-completed project is just one of the many carefully laid out plans that the hospital board has in store for MR-XUH, revealed Sr Zeta Caridad Rivero, Sisters of St Paul of Chartres Provincial Superior.

Another five-storey infrastructure, the Medical Arts building, which incorporates environment and energy efficient designs, is already under construction.

Just this July, MR-XUH received a container van full of medical equipment and supplies worth over $300,000 from various national and international benefactors, among them Med Share International, Filipino Community of Guam, Ayuda Foundation, the People of Guam and Smart Communications, Inc.

These new developments at MR-XUH are aimed at providing better “service to those who are in need of medical care, in the same way that the Lord came to heal all of us,” said Bp Ledesma.

Fr Yap had said at the turn-over of the medical equipment that “as a Catholic hospital, our service to the poor and the needy has to be robust.”

MR-XUH is a collaboration between the Sisters of St Paul de Chartres, Xavier University and the Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro. It serves as the base hospital for the XU School of Medicine and the College of Nursing.



Communications Director Catalina Gaite, Mission and Ministry Vice President
Bro Noel Cantago SJ, School of Medicine Dean Dr Ruth Beltran,
and XU and MR-XUH President Fr Bobby Yap SJ


Fr Yap  with Ms Leah Santos, representing the Filipino Community and People of Guam,
and Sr Ma Celeste Rivas SPC, MR-XUH hospital administrator, showing the contents
of one of several boxes of donated medical supplies and equipment