Dagupan Doctors
OUR HISTORY DDVMH was founded by Dr. Vivencio V. Villaflor, Sr. – a surgeon and visionary from Pitogo, Quezon. Displaced by the Second World War, he brought his wife Pilar Villasenor, a pharmacist, and his practice up North to Pangasinan. Amidst the ravages of war, the physician opened the Villaflor Clinic in Dagupan in 1946 at then abandoned Dr. Armando Fernandez Hospital Building along Avenida Torres Bugallon (AB Fernandez Avenue today). In 1967, son and surgeon Vivencio V. Villaflor Jr., MD would join his father’s practice in Dagupan along with his wife, anaesthesiologist Gregoria Poblete, MD., after both completing residency in the Philippine General Hospital, Manila. With their joint efforts and just a year after, a new Villaflor Clinic and Hospital would open along Arellano Street. Thirteen years later, by September 27, 1981, a full-fledged medical complex as we konw it today in Mayombo District would be inaugurated and fully operational with highly-skilled consultants and ...