ADVENTIST HEALTH SYSTEM SUNBEL

Adventist Health System is a not-for-profit healthcare organization that emphasizes Christ at the center of care. Founded in 1973 to support and strengthen Seventh-day Adventist healthcare organizations in the Southern and Southwestern regions of the United States, Adventist Health System has quickly grown to become the largest not-for-profit Protestant healthcare provider in the nation.

Today, Adventist Health System supports 43 hospitals and employs 55, 000 individuals. Adventist Health System hospitals are comprised of 7, 700 plus licensed beds, providing care for 4 million patients each year in inpatient, outpatient and emergency room visits.

In order to best meet the needs of the local communities we serve, Adventist Health System facilities operate independently in hiring employees and delivering care and services. While each entity is unique, they remain united in one mission—to extend the healing ministry of Christ to every patient. Our mission depends not only on our commitment to Christian ideals but on our efforts to provide nothing less than extraordinary compassionate care.

Adventist Health System’s flagship, Florida Hospital, is one of the largest healthcare providers in America and a national leader in cardiac care. Established in 1908, Florida Hospital now includes almost 2, 200 beds on seven campuses.

As Seventh-day Adventist Christians, we believe a wholesome lifestyle contributes to good physical health and enhances a person's mental and spiritual potential. In 1866, in Battle Creek, Michigan, medical pioneers of the Seventh-day Adventist Church established an innovative healthcare center which recognized the importance of whole-person health, as well as the relationship between physical health and emotional and spiritual well-being.

During a time when many medical treatments were as harmful as the diseases they intended to cure, the revolutionary healthcare center not only treated diseases, but also taught people how to prevent disease through good nutrition, exercise and sanitation. It was a place where each person was valued as a creation of God and where caregivers created a positive healing environment by providing extraordinary patient care.

Within years, the institution and its famous physician and health educator, John Harvey Kellogg, M.D., gained international recognition. Clientele included the likes of J.C. Penney, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Amelia Earhart, Lowell Thomas, William Jennings Bryan, Dale Carnegie, C.W. Post and John D. Rockefeller.