Cebu-Based Dr. Donna Borres Eramis Advocates for Better Patient Education Before Cosmetic Surgery

 

Through her practice at D’Sculpt Face & Body Center in Cebu City, Dr. Donna is encouraging patients to approach cosmetic surgery as a medical process rather than a single appointment. Her patient-education efforts focus on consultation before procedure selection, appropriate surgical timing, pre-operative preparation, realistic recovery expectations, and continued post-operative care.

For Dr. Donna Borres Eramis, founder of D’Sculpt Face & Body Center, cosmetic surgery should begin with understanding the process—not simply choosing a procedure.

As cosmetic surgery information becomes increasingly accessible online, patients can arrive at consultations already familiar with procedure names, before-and-after photos, and aesthetic trends. But Dr. Donna emphasizes that knowing about a procedure is different from knowing whether it is appropriate for an individual patient.

The Consultation Comes First

A consultation allows the surgeon to assess a patient’s goals, anatomy, medical history, expectations, and suitability before recommending a treatment plan.

“Patients should understand why a procedure is being recommended, what it can realistically achieve, and what the entire process will require from them,” says Dr. Donna.

In some cases, the procedure a patient initially requests may not be the most appropriate option. Another approach may better suit the patient’s anatomy or goals, while some patients may be advised to wait or not undergo surgery.

Surgery Has to Fit Into Real Life

Patient education also extends to timing.

Dr. Donna encourages patients to consider work schedules, travel, major events, physical activity, and the support they may need during recovery before selecting a surgery date.

Recovery requirements vary by procedure and patient. A convenient weekend does not necessarily provide sufficient time to heal.

Preparation may also include following pre-operative instructions, arranging assistance, preparing a recovery space, and understanding post-operative restrictions specific to the procedure.

Healing Is Part of the Procedure

One misconception Dr. Donna wants to address is the expectation of seeing a final result immediately after surgery.

Depending on the procedure and individual patient, early recovery may involve swelling, bruising, tightness, or other expected post-operative changes. Results can continue to evolve as healing progresses.

This makes follow-up care an important part of the surgical journey.

“Patients naturally look forward to the result, but surgery is only one part of the process. Preparation, recovery, follow-up, and patience with healing all matter,” says Dr. Donna.

Building a More Informed Patient Community in Cebu

Through her practice in Cebu City, Dr. Donna aims to encourage more informed conversations around elective cosmetic surgery.

Her message to patients considering a procedure is simple: ask questions before committing. Understand the benefits, limitations, risks, recovery, alternatives, and expected outcome.

For Dr. Donna, better-informed patients are better equipped to make decisions about whether cosmetic surgery is right for them.

About Dr. Donna Borres Eramis

Dr. Donna Borres Eramis is a Cebu-based cosmetic surgeon and the founder and head surgeon of D’Sculpt Face & Body Center. She completed cosmetic surgery training with the Philippine Academy of Aesthetic Surgery (PAAS) and successfully passed the board examination of Philippine Federation of Cosmetic Surgeons (PFCS).

About D'Sculpt Face & Body Center
D'Sculpt Face & Body Center is an aesthetic medicine and cosmetic surgery clinic in Cebu City founded by board-certified cosmetic surgeon Dr. Donna Borres-Eramis. The clinic offers surgical and non-surgical aesthetic treatments through personalized, medically guided treatment programs with an emphasis on patient safety, appropriate treatment planning, and natural-looking results.

Casino Plus Awards ₱122.4-M: The Biggest Jackpot in Philippine Slot Machine History

 Casino Plus, one of the country’s leading responsible digital entertainment platforms licensed by the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR), today made Philippine gaming history with the ceremonial handover of a ₱122,409,603.00 jackpot — the biggest verified jackpot in Philippine online slot machine history.

The landmark cheque presentation was held at LaVie Resort and Casino, Manila, on September 9, 2026, in the presence of PAGCOR, Casino Plus CEO Evan Spytma, and the verified winner, who attended with their identity protected for personal safety and security.

A record that rewrites Philippines online gaming history

The ₱122,409,603.00 payout represents a record-breaking jackpot in Philippine online slot machines. The win was achieved through Casino Plus’ certified online gaming platform, with the payout verified under the applicable PAGCOR regulatory framework.

The record-setting jackpot underscores the scale and technological capabilities of Casino Plus’ digital gaming platform, while highlighting the importance of regulated, secure, and transparent gaming experiences for Filipino players.

“This is not just a win for one player; it is a defining moment for responsible, enjoyable, competitive, and transparent digital gaming in the Philippines,” said Evan Spytma, CEO of Casino Plus. “We built this platform on the promise that every Filipino player deserves a fair, secure, and life-changing experience. Today, that promise is ₱122 million worth of proof.”

RESPONSIBLE GAMING ADVISORY

In accordance with PAGCOR’s Responsible Gaming Code of Practice, Casino Plus wishes to remind all players of the following:

Gaming is for entertainment purposes only. It should not be considered a source of income or a means of financial relief. Players are encouraged to play responsibly and within their means.

Winning is never guaranteed. All gaming outcomes are determined by chance. Past results, including jackpot wins, do not influence or predict future outcomes.

About IGO Digital High Technology, Inc.

Casino Plus is a PAGCOR-licensed online casino platform in the Philippines, providing secure, regulated, and responsible online gaming experiences for Filipino players. The company is committed to providing a secure, fair, and engaging digital entertainment experience, guided by the principles of responsible gaming and player protection. With its continuous expansion, Casino Plus is now regarded as one of the country’s leading online casino platforms, combining entertainment excellence with meaningful corporate social responsibility initiatives.

SPROUT SOLUTIONS LAUNCHES FRONTLINER, AN AI OPERATIONS AGENT FOR FRONTLINE TEAMS

  

New product brings branch-level intelligence to the QSR, retail, hospitality, and healthcare industries across the Philippines and Southeast Asia

TAGUIG, Philippines — September 4, 2026 — Sprout Solutions has launched Frontliner, an AI-powered operations platform that gives multi-location businesses in retail, F&B, hospitality, and healthcare real-time visibility into what's happening across every branch, replacing the paper checklists, spreadsheets, and group chats frontline teams rely on today. Frontliner is built for businesses where the real work happens in a branch, not a boardroom. Frontliner is Sprout's first product outside its core HR and payroll suite.

The problem: a branch running on five disconnected tools

Frontliner targets a specific problem: companies that have digitized payroll, compliance, and HR can still find themselves running branch operations on WhatsApp or Viber group chats, paper checklists, and Excel files. A store manager at a QSR chain with 20 locations might use five different tools on any given shift:

● a form on paper

● a tracker in Google Sheets

● a group chat on Viber 

● a separate training platform

● a ticketing tool for equipment repairs 

But none of them talk to each other.

One platform for the entire branch  

Frontliner replaces that stack with a single platform. Staff complete checklists, report issues with a photo, and take training courses entirely from their phones, with no desktop required, and no separate app for learning.

● Training on demand. The LMS generates a full training course, slides and quiz included, from a topic description or an uploaded SOP; a crew member can finish a food safety module between the breakfast and lunch rush.

● Audits that close themselves. When an audit fails, the system auto-generates a corrective action plan and creates real tasks with real assignees. A failed temperature check becomes an assigned corrective task before the auditor leaves the building.

● Issues triaged automatically. When a crew member reports a broken fryer with a photo, AI classifies it as Equipment Failure, sets the priority to High, and starts the four-hour SLA clock without anyone making a decision.

An Operational Health Score, and a brief every morning  

At the operations level, Frontliner computes an Operational Health Score for each branch and for the company as a whole. A 0-to-100 composite of checklist completion, audit pass rates, issue resolution, attendance, task completion, and training progress.

Every morning, Sidekick generates a daily brief for managers and operations directors; not a report to scroll through, but two or three specific findings with a recommended action each:

"Makati's food waste pull-outs are 60% above their four-week average and the top reason is chicken overproduction on Mondays. BGC's fryer has had three equipment issues this month; two incident reports flagged an oil leak."  

The brief reads the entire operation overnight so the manager doesn't have to spend the first hour of their day figuring out what's on fire.

"Companies don't usually have a standards problem. The challenge is knowing whether those standards are actually being executed across every branch, every shift, every day. We built Frontliner to give operations leaders that visibility, wherever they are."  

— Kat Uytiepo, Venture Lead for Frontliner 

"Our clients in retail, F&B, and hospitality kept asking the same question after they got HR and payroll working. The back office is sorted. What about the branch? What about the people running the floor every day?" 

— Alex Gentry, Co-founder of Sprout 

Built for the floor, not the office 

The gap Gentry is pointing at is older than the software that's closing it. Knowledge workers have spent a decade accumulating digital tools such as project management, communication, documentation, analytics. The person at a desk has options. The crew member at a QSR counter, the nurse on a ward, the warehouse picker on the night shift have largely been handed a clipboard and a group chat and told to figure it out. The tools that exist were designed for offices, then stretched to fit operations they were never built for.

For Gentry, the real product question was never about replacing paper:

"How can AI make the people on the floor more productive? How do you help teams actually gel together, and not simply give management another report to look at from above?"  

Frontliner is her answer to that: a platform built from the ground up for how frontline teams actually work: on mobile, in a branch, under time pressure, with no desk in sight.

Industry templates, live in about 30 minutes  

The product includes industry-specific template packages covering QSR, restaurants and cafes, fashion retail, grocery, hospitality, logistics, manufacturing, and healthcare. Each package includes pre-built checklists, audits, issue categories, automated workflows, and training modules based on how operators in that vertical already run their branches. A new customer in QSR can be operational in about 30 minutes.

As shared by an IlaoIlao franchise, a Frontliner client:

As shared by Jennifer Castro, Area Manager of llaollao, a fast-growing frozen yogurt brand in the Philippines and now a Frontliner user:

"Simple lang gamitin yung app kaya mabilis siyang natutunan ng managers at staff. Syempre may konting adjustment coming from paper checklists, pero after a few days naging part na siya ng daily routine nila. Nakatuwa kasi instead na dumagdag sa trabaho nila, mas pinadali pa niya.”  

Integration, pricing, and availability 

Frontliner integrates with Sprout HR and Sprout Payroll:

● Attendance data flows to payroll automatically.

● Employee records sync without a manual import.

 For companies not yet on the Sprout platform, Frontliner works as a standalone product.

Pricing is per location with unlimited users, which is a deliberate choice for an industry where headcount is high and per-seat pricing tends to price out the operators who need it most.

Frontliner is available now. More information at sproutfrontliner.com.  

About Sprout Solutions Phil Inc

Sprout Solutions is the Philippines' leading HR and payroll software provider, serving over 2,000 companies across retail, banking, BPO, healthcare, and manufacturing. Its products cover core HR, payroll, compliance, talent management, and employee engagement. Frontliner extends the platform to frontline operations for the first time. Learn more at sprout.ph.

PH, Spain Move to Strengthen Social Security Access for Filipinos Abroad

 

MANILA, Philippines — Filipinos in Spain will gain stronger protection and easier access to social security benefits as the Philippines and Spain move to strengthen their longstanding partnership and restore SSS services in Madrid.

Philippine Ambassador to Spain Philippe J. Lhuillier recently met with Social Security System (SSS) President and Chief Executive Officer Robert Joseph M. De Claro to discuss measures to improve social security services for Filipinos in Spain. The meeting comes ahead of the planned reopening of the SSS Representative Office at the Philippine Embassy in Madrid in September.

Ambassador Lhuillier welcomed progress toward concluding and signing the Administrative Agreement implementing the Convention on Social Security between the Philippines and Spain. The framework will establish clearer procedures for totalizing insurance periods, ensuring equal treatment, exporting benefits, and avoiding double social security contributions.

“Strengthening our social security partnership with Spain is an important step in ensuring that the rights and benefits of our kababayans are protected and accessible, wherever their work and lives may take them,” Ambassador Lhuillier said. “We value our longstanding cooperation with Spain and look forward to working closely with our Spanish counterparts and the SSS to further strengthen the systems that support the Filipino community.”

Under the arrangement, eligible workers who have contributed to both countries' systems may combine their insurance periods to qualify for certain benefits. Qualified beneficiaries may receive benefits regardless of where they reside, while temporarily assigned workers may avoid duplicate contributions.

The framework also aims to streamline claims processing, information exchange, and coordination between Philippine and Spanish institutions, while reducing documentary requirements and administrative back-and-forth.

The effort will be reinforced by the reopening of the SSS Representative Office at the Philippine Embassy in Madrid, scheduled for inauguration on September 11, 2026. Located at the Embassy's Eric P. Valenzuela Consular Hall, the office will provide Filipinos with a local venue for SSS concerns and transactions. Mary Jessielyn C. Sia, formerly an SSS Foreign Representative in Milan, will serve the Madrid community.

The Philippines and Spain have maintained a social security arrangement since 1988, with an updated convention signed in 2002 and entering into force in 2012. The forthcoming Administrative Agreement takes this partnership a step further—turning a decades-old commitment into more accessible, responsive support for Filipinos building their lives and livelihoods between the two countries.