About Company
July 8, 2014 marks the rise of the first cooperative health maintenance organization in the Philippines when 13 leading cooperatives, federations and organizations, namely, ACDI Multi-Purpose Cooperative, Cooperative Insurance System of the Philippines, First Community Cooperative, San Dionisio Credit Cooperative, Simbayanan ni Maria Multi-Purpose Cooperative, Soro-soro Ibaba Development Cooperative, United Sugarcane Planters Savings and Credit Cooperative, United Sugarcane Planters Multi-Purpose Cooperative, Quezon Medical Mission Group Hospitals and Health Services Cooperative, Medical Mission Group Metro Manila East Hospital and Health Services Cooperative, Medical Mission Group Health Services Puerto Princesa Chapter, Peace and Equity Foundation, and Carewell Health Systems, Inc. founded the Cooperative Health Management Federation.
CHMF’s founders answered the call to take on the challenge of providing and managing health care for the welfare of their individual members by contributing to a common fund and, as demanded by such task, by calling on the finest management and professional expertise in their ranks.
On August 8, 2014, the CHMF received its certificate of registration from the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) and on January 9, 2015, its clearance to operate as a cooperative health maintenance organization from the Department of Health (DoH).
CHMF or “One Coop Health” embodies the collective pioneering vision of the country’s leading cooperatives to leverage community, institutional knowhow, technical expertise, good governance, data and networks, and technology into building a private health care platform that is progressive, responsive, and inclusive.
More than a platform for sustainable private health care, it is a platform for ideas and innovation, founded on timeless humane values but adaptive to the changing human condition, aware of the individual rationale for health care but responsive to communal aims as a social and business enterprise.
To as much extent as CHMF believes in the universality of the principles of cooperativism, so to does it subscribe to affordable mass health care access as a first principle for economic growth and social prosperity.
