The National Center for Mental Health (NCMH), is a 4200-bed psychiatric hospital occupying 47 hectares of land in the city of Mandaluyong. It is PhilHealth-accredited.HistoryFormerly known as the Insular Psychopathic Hospital, the Mandaluyong Mental Hospital, and the National Mental Hospital, was established on 17 December 1928. It was founded in order to accommodate the increasing number of mental patients and other patients with related nervous system conditions who, in 1925, were being taken cared of by two hospitals, namely the San Lazaro Hospital (in its “Insane Department”) and the City Sanitarium in the Philippines.
