the people who remained in Dumaguete and those who had fled to the hills. Dr Roman Ponce de Leon remained at the hospital in Dumaguete, while Dr. Jose Garcia established an evacuation hospital at Pamplona, Negros Oriental. As Japanese activity stepped up, the evacuation hospital had to close, and Dr Garcia joined the resistance in the interior mountains of Negros island where American missionaries and their families, SU faculty staff, and students operated throughout the duration of the war. After the Philippines was liberated in 1946 the hospital was re-opened. Since its founding in 1903, Henry Langheim did not only dedicated his service to the mission hospital but to the whole province of Negros Oriental as well. He taught at Silliman University and served as the institution's member of the board of trustees. In 1947, the Board approved the plan for the hospital to become part of a medical union with the insistence that it retain its name and institutional identity. Thus it became part of a bigger organization under a Hospital Advisory Committee and continued to serve and operate under the watchful eyes of medical professionals until it earned recognition for their concern and regard toward the health and medical conditions of the general public. In the years that passed by, it was replaced by Silliman University Medical Center. In 1974, a cornerstone for the present hospital's location on Aldecoa Drive, was laid down to commence the building of a four-storey modern healthcare facility with passenger elevators, the first in Negros Oriental. SU Medical Center made a milestone in 1979 when its Van Houweling Research Laboratory discovered and produced a dog vaccine that gave a three-year immunity from rabies. The said development was later used by some countries on their fight against rabies, in collaboration with the World Health Organization. In the early 2000s, saw the need for the hospital's expansion to server the surrounding community, thus resulting for its management to upgrade its facilities with the addition of newly built structures - the SU Medical Center Specialty Building (4 storey) and the SU Medical Center Medical Arts Building (also a 4-storey structure). The SU Medical Center maintains collaborative ties with St. Luke's Medical Center. Facilities The Silliman University Medical Center has adequate healthcare facilities catering the community in general. It also serves as a base hospital and medical care provider for the faculty and staff members, personnel, students