DASMARIÑAS, Cavite — Healthcare professionals and educators from De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute now have a place to call home closer to work.
Newtowne Dasmariñas made a deal with DLSMHSI last week. This deal lets teachers, workers and doctors, at DLSMHSI live in Newtowne Dasmariñas for free. They get to choose from different homes in a well-planned community. The goal of this partnership is to help people who work hard in healthcare have a place to live. Newtowne Dasmariñas and DLSMHSI want to make it easier for healthcare workers to find a home.
The contract signing brought together key officials from both institutions. Representing DLSMHSI were President Dr. Antonio Ramos, Chancellor Ferdinand Berba, and Strategy Management Office Director Grace Siaton. Wee Community Developers, Inc., the developer behind Newtowne Dasmariñas, sent President and CEO Cesar Wee Jr., Chief Operating Officer Carson Choa, and Project Director Gabriel Siojo.
For those who signed the papers, the arrangement makes practical sense. Doctors and nurses working irregular hours, faculty juggling teaching and hospital duties, and support staff who keep the institution running—they all need somewhere convenient to live when shifts run long or early classes start.
DLSMHSI has built a reputation over the years as a solid institution for healthcare and medical education. It has trained countless professionals now working in hospitals and clinics both here and abroad. The school's approach has always leaned into both academic rigor and that Lasallian brand of compassion—students don't just learn how to treat patients, they learn why it matters.
Newtowne Dasmariñas is making a name for itself as a developer that thinks about peoples needs. They create communities that are planned with care. This means they think about where people shop, where kids play and how neighbors talk to each other. The focus is on making life easy and comfortable with design. It's, about creating places where people can live well.
This new agreement gives the DLSMHSI community exclusive access to residential options within the development. No more long commutes from other cities for early morning rounds. No more stressing about traffic when you're already running on two hours of sleep. Just a short trip home, maybe even walking distance for some.
Both sides seem genuinely optimistic about what this means long-term. When you put healthcare practitioners in a space actually designed for quality living, something clicks. The idea is that people who feel settled and supported in their personal lives show up differently at work—more present, more patient, more themselves.
Newtowne has this tagline they've been using: "Home for the Driven." It's aimed at people shaping the future of healthcare and other essential professions. A bit marketing-speak, sure, but the sentiment lands differently when you're talking about actual nurses and doctors who just finished a twelve-hour shift and want to be home in ten minutes instead of an hour.
The partnership won't change the world overnight. But for the faculty member grading papers at midnight or the nurse catching a few hours of sleep before the next shift, it might change theirs.
