[5][6] While operating as the healthcare institution of Central Philippine University (CPU), the Iloilo Mission Hospital is independent and is administered by a separate board.

It is a Level III accredited and licensed tertiary private hospital,[7] providing services to the community and serving as a teaching and training facility for the university in various medical fields and healthcare programs.

[8][9][10] In 2001, the hospital celebrated its centennial and marked its contribution to Philippine and American colonial history, especially in pioneering nursing education.

In May 2019, the hospital acquired the first Siemens Healthineers ACUSON SEQUOIA Ultra-Premium Ultrasound Machine in the Philippines and Southeast Asia.

When the Philippines was ceded by Spain in 1898 to the United States thought the Treaty of Paris (1898), the country was opened to Protestantism, a new faith brought by the Americans.

Iloilo became the very first place where they set foot because of its prominence, being the second most important city after Manilla in the socio-economic sector as a result of the sugar industry boom when its port was opened to the international trade and commerce.

The clinic-dispensary hospital served as a venue for health care to the very poor in the surrounding community under the help of the Presbyterian Foreign Mission Board in the United States.

However, through their church connections, Reverend Paulino Solarte, a Presbyterian pastor, helped to recruit two of his sisters to undergo the training for two months.

Jean Russell Hall (who was not a nurse) commenced the task of teaching the girls the basics of reading and writing English as well as arithmetic, while Dr. Joseph A.

Unfortunately, the Solarte sisters became disheartened by the conduct of the patients who treated them in demeaning ways as if they were housemaids; this led to their decision to leave the training program.

After quite some time, two young sisters from Iloilo who were laundry staff for the Union Mission Hospital agreed to help Elizabeth Brinton, an American missionary nurse who arrived on June 3, 1906.

These four young women, who were just beginning to learn to read and write, comprised the first group of nursing students who started their training in 1906 and finished in 1909.

During the training, the girls were required to wear a red calico uniform with full sleeves gathered to a band just above the elbow and a white cap to keep their hair in place.

Shortly, Dr. Raphael C. Thomas of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (ABFMS) willingly accepted to fill in for Dr. Joseph A.

During the training of the three remaining young women, enrichment of their learning experiences was supplied by American educators who were assigned as supervising teachers in Iloilo.

The first was George Swank, a Harvard University graduate who taught the nursing students English in night classes with two lessons in a week for over two years.

One of the special features of the program was the violin music rendered by Don Gil Lopez, assisted by his three daughters; Benita, Marcela and Honey.

This musical gesture of support and Christian testimony of Lopez family was remembered with gratitude and love by the institution and everyone who had witnessed the ceremonies.

The Union Mission Hospital Training School for Nurses Alumni Association, spearheaded by Rose Nicolet, was established on May 12, 1925 and is the first of its kind in the Philippines.

The graduates included Catalina Demetillo (Jaleco), who was sent to Peking Medical College, Beijing, China under the sponsorship of the Rockefeller Foundation on the advanced studies on child care and infant feeding, Presentacion Jaranilla (Franco), who was sent to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA through a sponsorship by Christine Benedict Pratt on the studies of specialization on operating room techniques and general surgery, and Ida McLeroy (Macasa), who went to Columbia University in New York City through a sponsorship from the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society to receive a bachelor's degree in arts.

The Presbyterian mission was to focus on the Eastern Visayan region while the Baptists stayed to carry on the work in Western Visayas.

Dr. Joseph Andrew Hall was relocated after the said succession by the Presbyterian Mission to establish the Bethany Hospital and Training School in Tacloban City, Leyte.

No school fees were charged on students during Hazel Mann's principalship while they were given books, uniforms and a nurses obstetrical kit after graduation.

The new relocated hospital was dedicated with its founder, Dr. Joseph Andrew Hall came all the way from Tacloban City, Leyte, as the guest of honor on the said momentous occasion.

On what used to be a deep rice field and swampy place was a green lawn and rose garden surrounding the new imposing and neat-looking concrete hospital.

in 2004, Iloilo Mission Hospital acquired the Philips MX8000 CT Scan machine, the first of its kind in South East Asia.

At present, Iloilo Mission Hospital maintains an affiliation and linkage with the Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches but it is independent and non-sectarian.

The hospital's continued expansion and upgrading of its facilities include acquisitions of modern equipment and machines for medical care.

In 2001 during its centennial celebration, the CPU–Iloilo Mission Hospital management purchased the Philips MX8000 CT Scan machine, the first of its kind in Southeast Asia.

Dr. Elmer Pedregosa (MD, MPH, MHA, and FPCHA), the administrator/director of Iloilo Mission Hospital, also serves as the chairman of the board of corporation and trustees of Central Philippine University.