hospitals, municipal hospitals, rural health units and barangay health stations shall be governed by the following: SEC. 11. Provincial/City Health Offices. - The Provincial/City Health Office shall be the Department agency in the province/city. It shall exercise supervision and control over district health offices and other field units of the department in the province/city, except those otherwise placed under the Department Proper. The said IPHO/CHO shall be headed by a Provincial/City Health Officer II assisted by two Provincial/City Health Officer I, one for public health activities and the other for hospital operations. The Provincial/City Health Officers and Assistant Provincial/City Health Officers shall be appointed by the Regional Governor and their deployment shall be made by the Regional Secretary. SEC. 12. District Health Office. - The District Health Office shall exercise administrative supervision and control over district hospitals, municipal hospitals, rural health units, barangay health stations and all other Department units in the health district, except those offices/units that are explicitly placed under the supervision and control of either DOH-ARMM or DOH National, as the case may be. The District Health Office shall be headed by a Chief of Hospital and shall also serve as head of all field units in the district. Chief of Hospital shall be appointed by the Regional Governor and their deployment from district to district shall be made by the Regional Secretary. SEC. 13. Rural Health Centers. - The Department shall review and monitor the establishment, operation and maintenance of rural health centers, barangay health stations funded by local governments. Rural health units are headed by rural health physicians to be appointed pursuant to existing laws. Proposals for integrating locally funded health agencies under the supervision and control of the Department without regard to the sourcing of funds shall be made by the Department for the appropriate local government's approval. Any such agreement shall be allowed and, whenever possible, funding from national sources may be extended to achieve a nationally integrated government health service under the Department. Chapter 5 Hospital Services SEC. 14. Hospitals. - Hospitals shall be the principal implementers of appropriate curative services. They shall be the institutions that will develop an effective network of facilities which are available, accessible, acceptable and affordable. SEC. 15. Hospital Operations. - The hospital operations shall be implemented through the following: (1) Administrative services. The hospital administrative services shall execute policies and directions promulgated by the hospital body and discharged support services in the areas of finance, personnel, materials, and property, housekeeping, laundry, security, transport, engineering and maintenance; 102