Thereafter, a comity agreement was made that the Philippine islands would be divided into different Protestant denominations for missions to avoid future conflicts.

Thus, the Western Visayas region came to the Baptists yet some Protestant sects were allowed like Presbyterians to do a mission also.

Soon after the war ended, the opening of the school of nursing was initiated by Miss Loreto D. Tupaz.

Dr. Henry S. Waters, the postwar director of Iloilo Mission Hospital and also the principal of the Iloilo Mission Hospital School of Nursing in 1946–1947, pressed for the offering, with Central Philippine College (2nd precursor of Central Philippine University), a collegiate course leading to the Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree.

Waters returned to the United States, Dr. Teofilo Marte served as the executive secretary (1948-1949); and Miss Loreto D. Tupaz who finished the Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree at CPU, was the acting dean from 1949 to 1950 and served in this capacity until the arrival of Miss Esther Salzman (a Master of Science in Nursing degree holder) and an American Baptist Foreign Mission Society missionary nurse, who held the deanship from 1950 to 1961.

When the latter resigned and went abroad, she was replaced by Miss Carmen Centeno, MS, during the remaining months of 1963.

On May 1, 1972, Mrs. Natividad C. Caipang, GN, BSN, MA, (CPU); CPH (UP), was appointed assistant dean in preparation for the retirement of Miss Tupaz in 1974.

In 1973, Mrs. Caipang went on the Exchange Visitor's Study Tour Program in the United States and Southeast Asia to visit nursing schools.

This tour was jointly sponsored by the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society and CPU.

Under her administration, the college curricula underwent several changes in response to the trends in the nursing education at the national level.

It was also during her term that the college was accredited with Level II deregulated status (MECS Order No.

On May 1, 1990, upon her return from the United States as a recipient of a doctoral enrichment program in nursing education at the George Mason University in Virginia, U.S., Dr. Betty T. Polido (BSN, MA Ed, MAN, Ed D) was appointed Dean, a position she held until May, 2000.

During her nine-year stint as a dean, she accomplished the following: Implementation of Associate in Health Science Education as a preparatory course in Nursing (AHSE); Level III Re-accreditation granted in 1994 and 1999 each for five years; transcultural Nursing Program with Truman State University; inclusion of the college among the Outstanding Schools with Highest Performance in the Nurses’ Licensure Examination; the strengthening of the outreach program of the College of Nursing with the setting up of the KABALAKA Reproductive Health Center as training institution, implementer of various health programs and services and recipients of grants and funds from local and international support agencies; and upgrading of the New Level 2 Skills Laboratory.

In spite the increase in the population, the college has high passing percentage in the nursing licensure examination.

The CPU College of Nursing offers various facilities for academic classes and clinical training on the main campus of Central Philippine University and CPU–Iloilo Mission Hospital.

During that time, the College of Nursing was occupying the ground floor of the Franklin Hall (one of the dormitories and housing facilities of Central Philippine University).

Founded in 1901 as Union Mission Hospital that holds the distinction up to this day as the first Protestant founded and American hospital in the Philippines by Joseph Andrew Hall and his wife Jean Russell Hall, who are both American missionaries under the auspices of the Presbyterian church in the United States.

Each Centralian nurse is called to serve the profession with excellence and to embody the Christian ideals taught by the Alma Mater.

The college is the first nursing school in the Philippines and since its founding in 1906, it has produced and associated with notable alumni and other people.