The Silliman University Medical Center, also known as Silliman Medical Center or simply referred to as SU Medical Center or SUMC, is a private tertiary, teaching and academic hospital in Dumaguete, Philippines. Established in 1903 as the Dumaguete Mission Hospital under the auspices of the Presbyterian Foreign Mission Board from the United States by the American missionary doctor Henry Langheim, it is the second oldest American and Protestant founded hospital in the country after CPU–Iloilo Mission Hospital (founded 1901) in Iloilo City, the university hospital of Silliman's sister school, Central Philippine University. A Level III tertiary private and licensed hospital by the Department of Health, it serves mainly the surrounding community and as the academic, teaching and training hospital and facility of Silliman University in the medical fields and healthcare academic programs of Medical Laboratory Science (Medical Technology), Medical Social Work, Medicine, Nursing, Nutrition and Dietetics, Pharmacy and Rehabilitation Sciences. The hospital's chaplaincy program is served on the other hand by the Silliman University Divinity School. At present, although owned by the Silliman University, the hospital is managed and administered by a board of trustees and corporation separate from the university, under the Silliman University Medical Center Foundation, Inc. As originally founded by the Presbyterian missionaries, SU Medical Center is subsequently affiliated with the United Church of Christ in the Philippines but is independent and non-sectarian. SU Medical Center maintains collaborative ties with St. Luke's Medical Center. History The Dumaguete Mission Hospital (or Silliman University Mission Hospital) which was established as early as 1901 as a small infirmary, is the forerunner of the present-day Silliman University Medical Center. It was not until later in 1903 that a hospital was formally built in replace of it, by the American missionary doctor, Henry Langheim together with his wife who was also a medical practitioner as founders. The Langheims were the pioneers of Missionary Medical Work in Negros Oriental during when the Philippines was opened to Protestant missions. Henry Langheim and his wife took care of the general day-to-day operations in the hospital. On February 26, 1916, Katipunan Hall on the main campus of Silliman University was inaugurated as the home of Dumaguete Mission Hospital. During the onset of World War II, it resulted for some of the hospital's facilities and operations being minimized. In 1942, the Dumaguete Mission Hospital staff agreed to divide their forces, so as to continue to serve both