The format for the health facility follows the official name as stated in the License to Operate or the name used for legal purposes.
- The health facility name is free of any abbreviations.
- The health facility name uses proper capitalization and avoids the use of special characters or punctuation symbols."

The number is supplied to hospitals by the Bureau of Health Facilities and Services (BHFS) of the DOH from the licensing system.
- Rural health units and barangay health stations are not licensed by the BHFS, and said number is not applicable.
- Use "NA" for not applicable like rural health units.

- Use prefix DOH before the number.
- Number after the prefix is auto-generated sequential number.
- IMS acts as the Health Facility Registry System Administrator.
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