Section 5
SEC. 5. Section thirteen of Republic Act Numbered Eight hundred seventy-seven is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 13. Clinical and public health nursing facilities.—No hospital, school, college or university shall be permitted to operate a school, college or institute of nursing unless such hospital, school, college or university shall establish and operate a base hospital with at least one hundred authorized beds to be available for occupancy by medical, (including communicable) surgical, obstetric and pediatric patients: Provided, That such schools, colleges or universities actually operating a duly recognized school of nursing may be allowed to establish and operate home hospital of at least fifty authorized beds and to affiliate with other hospitals for the remaining balance necessary to fulfill the one hundred authorized beds base hospital requirement for training purposes: Provided, further, That no hospital in such arrangement shall have less than one hundred beds at its disposal and Provided, finally, That not later than January 1, 1971, all schools, colleges, universities must have already established such capital of at least one hundred authorized beds as prescribed herein. "Schools, Colleges or universities offering courses to on the undergraduate and/or graduate levels should also make necessary provisions for required experience of students in nursing school hospitals and public health nursing agencies."