[2] It is subsequently forms as an auxiliary unit under the West Visayas State University but is autonomous in entity and management.

Thereafter, the Lopez family bought the property to the college converting it to Don Benito Lopez Memorial Hospital, the base hospital for the medical and allied health sciences of the family run Iloilo City College which eventually became the University of Iloilo at present.

In January 1991, the Residency Training programs of the four (4) major clinical departments- Internal Medicine, General Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Pediatrics were accredited.

The University Hospital already has accredited residency-training programs in Surgery, OB-Gyne, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Orthopedics, Psychiatry, and Anesthesiology.

This request was made in the desire to make this institution the best training ground for students and resident physicians, nurses and other paramedical groups, at the same time to render quality service to patients, not only of Iloilo, but the rest of Western Visayas.

76 series of 2001, dated November 29, 2001, approved the hospital to become the West Visayas State University Medical Center.

In 2018, WVSU Medical Center along with another government hospital in Iloilo, received a 900 million Philippine Peso grant for infrastructural expansion.

[4] During the onslaught of COVID 2019 global pandemic, WVSU Medical Center and Western Visayas Medical Center (WVMC) as government hospitals had been designated by the Department of Health (Philippines) as COVID 2019 dedicated hospitals for Western Visayas region.