Adventist Health is a faith-based, nonprofit integrated health system serving more than 80 communities on the West Coast and in Hawaii. Founded on
Seventh-day Adventist
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is an Adventism, Adventist Protestantism, Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the Names of the days of the week#Numbered days of the week, seventh day of the ...
heritage and values, Adventist Health provides care in hospitals, clinics, home care agencies, hospice agencies and joint-venture retirement centers in both rural and urban communities.
Its headquarters are in
Roseville, California
Roseville is the most populous city in Placer County, California, located within the Sacramento metropolitan area. As of 2019, the US Census Bureau estimated the city's population to be 141,500. Interstate 80 runs through Roseville and State Rout ...
. As of 2020 Adventist Health operates 22 hospitals in
California
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,
Hawaii
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, and
Oregon
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.
History
In the 1960s, the
General Conference transferred ownership of the hospitals in the United States to the local conferences. In 1972, the General Conference centralized the management of its healthcare facilities, creating Adventist Health Systems.
The conferences then transferred the hospitals to the system, creating the entities Northwest Medical Foundation, and Adventist Health Services at the union level.
[
In 1980, they merged creating Adventist Health System/West, which changed its name to Adventist Health in 1995.] The headquarters for Adventist Health was in Los Angeles
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, Adventist Health worried about the smaller hospitals being neglected, so the headquarters was moved to Roseville, California
Roseville is the most populous city in Placer County, California, located within the Sacramento metropolitan area. As of 2019, the US Census Bureau estimated the city's population to be 141,500. Interstate 80 runs through Roseville and State Rout ...
in 1982. In 2019 a new Roseville shared service center replaced the corporate office that opened in 1985.
Hospitals
Adventist Health operates twenty-three hospitals mostly in California:
At a Glance
In 2021, Adventist Health had 127,703 admissions, 682,364 emergency visits, 1,592,649 outpatient visits, 246,579 home visits, and 2,385,075 clinic visits.
See also
Other North American based Seventh-day Adventist healthcare operations:
* Adventist Health International
Adventist Health International (AHI) is a multinational, nonprofit corporation with headquarters in Loma Linda, California. AHI was established to provide coordination, consultation, management, and technical assistance to hospitals and health c ...
* AdventHealth
AdventHealth (formerly Adventist Health System) is a Seventh-day Adventist non-profit health care system headquartered in Altamonte Springs, Florida, that operates facilities in 9 states across the United States. The Adventist Health System was ...
* Adventist Healthcare
Adventist HealthCare is a not-for-profit health services organization based in Gaithersburg, Maryland that employs more than 6,000 people and provides healthcare for more than 400,000 individuals in the community each year. The primary service a ...
* Adventist Health Studies
Adventist Health Studies (AHS) is a series of long-term medical research projects of Loma Linda University with the intent to measure the link between lifestyle, diet, disease and mortality of Seventh-day Adventists.
Seventh-day Adventists have ...
* Kettering Health
Kettering Health, formerly known as Kettering Health Network and Kettering Medical Center Network, is a nonprofit network of fourteen Dayton and Cincinnati area medical centers, Kettering College, and 120 outpatient facilities. The system is base ...
* Loma Linda University Medical Center
Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) is an academic hospital in California's Inland Empire region. Opened more than 100 years ago, it has a trauma center that admits over one million patients yearly, around 900 faculty physicians and ove ...
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Hospital networks in the United States
Companies based in Roseville, California
Medical and health organizations based in California
Non-profit organizations based in California
Adventist organizations established in the 20th century