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The Hyacinth Chen School of Nursing was officially opened on August 10, 2008, on a location directly across from the
Northern Caribbean University Northern Caribbean University (NCU) is a private, liberal-arts institution owned and operated by the Jamaica Union Conference (JAMU) and the Atlantic Caribbean Union Mission (ACUM) of Seventh-day Adventists, and is located in Jamaica. With its ma ...
campus across from NCU's Dental Centre located in Mandeville,
Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...
. The school is owned by the
Seventh-day Adventist Church The Seventh-day Adventist Church is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, and ...
in Jamaica. The school is being named in honour of Mrs. Hyacinth Chen, the mother of major donor,
Michael Lee-Chin Michael Lee-Chin, (born 3 January 1951) is a Jamaican-Canadian billionaire businessman, and philanthropist and the chairman and CEO of Portland Holdings Inc, a privately held investment company in Ontario, Canada. Lee-Chin was appointed to th ...
, Jamaican/
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businessman. The school will hold 800 nursing students and will reduce Jamaica's
nursing shortage A nursing shortage occurs when the demand for nursing professionals, such as Registered Nurses (RNs), exceeds the supply locallywithin a health care facilitynationally or globally. It can be measured, for instance, when the nurse-to-patient r ...
. It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second largest Christian school system.


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List of Seventh-day Adventist colleges and universities A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ...
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Seventh-day Adventist education The Seventh-day Adventist educational system, part of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, is overseen by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists located in Silver Spring, Maryland. The educational system is a Christian school-based syste ...
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Seventh-day Adventist Church The Seventh-day Adventist Church is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, and ...
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Seventh-day Adventist theology The theology of the Seventh-day Adventist Church resembles that of Protestant Christianity, combining elements from Lutheran, Wesleyan-Arminian, and Anabaptist branches of Protestantism. Adventists believe in the infallibility of Scripture and tea ...
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History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church The Seventh-day Adventist Church had its roots in the Millerite movement of the 1830s to the 1840s, during the period of the Second Great Awakening, and was officially founded in 1863. Prominent figures in the early church included Hiram Edson, ...
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Adventist Colleges and Universities Adventism is a branch of Protestant Christianity that believes in the imminent Second Coming (or the "Second Advent") of Jesus Christ. It originated in the 1830s in the United States during the Second Great Awakening when Baptist preacher Wil ...
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List of Seventh-day Adventist hospitals The following is a list of Seventh-day Adventist hospitals. North American Division Adventist Health * Adventist Health Bakersfield, Bakersfield, (formerly San Joaquin Community Hospital) * Adventist Health Castle, Kailua, (formerly Castle M ...
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List of Seventh-day Adventist medical schools A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ...
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List of Seventh-day Adventist secondary schools The Seventh-day Adventist Church runs a large educational system throughout the world. As of 2008, 1678
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Christian school A Christian school is a school run on Christian principles or by a Christian organization. The nature of Christian schools varies enormously from country to country, according to the religious, educational, and political cultures. In some countr ...


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Northern Caribbean University
official website Colleges in Jamaica Educational institutions established in 2008 Seventh-day Adventist education Buildings and structures in Manchester Parish 2008 establishments in Jamaica {{Jamaica-stub