From neighborhood traditions to national policies, Roman Catholic dogma extends and intersects within the Visayan region of the Philippines. In the onset of the globalization of western biomedicine, the incorporation of Filipino religious practices adds a crucial element to the ways we understand Filipino healthcare paradigms and, in a grander scale, the importance of faith in holistic healthcare. I have been constructing an ethnography examining how faith plays an integral role in constructing healthcare paradigms in low-income communities specific to the Visayans. I focused my initial qualitative research and fieldwork in the province of Cebu where I volunteered at a local hospital for four weeks. I recorded my observations on hospital spaces and healthcare policies, alongside religious practices and healing customs common to Cebu. I also interviewed lay people, medical staff, healers, and religious authorities. Throughout the academic year, I have been continuing my research analyzing journal entries, narratives, interviews, and other data to further uncover the cultural and historical influences that impact medical and healing practices in the Philippines. These analyses involve open and closed coding, creating spatial mapping of themes from my experiences, and constructing a paradigm analysis. By the time of the symposium, I intend to form concrete conclusions on the following: 1) Why environmental, social, and spiritual influences on space matters in places of healing. 2) How history, faith, healing practices, and modernization intersect to form the framework for medical tourism and other ethical implications found in Filipino healthcare. 3) What is the nexus between chaplains, manghihilots (faith doctors), and biomedical doctors that affect power dynamics in lay people’s access to healing. Through my ethnographic study, I will have constructed a framework that uncovers the importance of Filipino faith in the embodiment of culture, community, policy, and power dynamics in Filipino healing practices.