Jaro, Iloilo City
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Jaro is a district in Iloilo City, Philippines, located on Panay Island in the Western Visayas region. It is the largest district in terms of both area and population, with 130,700 people according to the 2020 census. Jaro merged with Iloilo City in the 1940s during the American administration in the Philippines. It is also the largest among the seven districts of Iloilo City. La Paz district and the present municipalities of Leganes and Pavia were historically part of Jaro before becoming independent.
Image: Jaro Cathedral (Catedral de Jaro) (cropped)
Image: Lopez Heritage House Nelly's Garden (E. Lopez, Jaro, Iloilo City; 10 22 2022) (cropped)
Image: Central Philippine University Church
Image: Villa Lizares (Lizares Mansion)
Iloilo Mission Hospital
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The Iloilo Mission Hospital, referred to as CPU–IMH, IMH, or Mission, is a private tertiary, academic, teaching hospital in Jaro, Iloilo City, Philippines, managed and operated as the university hospital of Central Philippine University. It was established in 1901 by American missionary doctor Joseph Andrew Hall as "the first Protestant and American-founded hospital in the country".
Iloilo Mission Hospital aerial view in 2017
CPU-Iloilo Mission Hospital banner.
The Loreto D. Tupaz Hall which houses the Central Philippine University College of Nursing (formerly Union Mission Hospital Training School for Nurses), is the first school of nursing in the Philippines.
Nicasia Cada, Felipa de la Peña, and Dorotea Caldito, first graduate nurses of the Philippines, from a 1910 publication.