AdventHealth Orlando (formerly Florida Hospital Orlando) it is the largest hospital owned by
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 ...
with over 1,432-beds,
faith-based,
non-profit
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,
tertiary
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, research and
academic medical center
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located in
Orlando
Orlando () is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and is the county seat of Orange County. In Central Florida, it is the center of the Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,509,831, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures re ...
,
Florida
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, servicing Central Florida and the Orange county region. It is the second largest hospital in
Florida
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and the largest in Central Florida.
[ AdventHealth Orlando is the 10th largest hospital in the United States in 2019. AdventHealth Orlando is the oldest ]Seventh-day Adventist Hospital
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in the state of Florida.
History
In the 1900s Lydia and Rufus Parmele went to Orlando in hopes of opening a sanitarium like the one Lydia was trained in (Battle Creek Sanitarium
The Battle Creek Sanitarium was a world-renowned health resort in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States. It started in 1866 on health principles advocated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church and from 1876 to 1943 was managed by Dr. John H ...
). The couple and the Florida Conference of Seventh-day Adventists the Seventh-day Adventist Church searched for a potential location for the sanitarium with only $4.83. However, after some fundraising they purchased a two-story house for $9,000. On October 1, 1908, they opened the doors of the Florida Sanitarium or the Florida Tuberculosis Sanitarium. The hospital was run as a sanatorium
A sanatorium (from Latin '' sānāre'' 'to heal, make healthy'), also sanitarium or sanitorium, are antiquated names for specialised hospitals, for the treatment of specific diseases, related ailments and convalescence. Sanatoriums are often ...
that focused on treatments that included sunshine, rest, and the water cure (which connects itself to the principle of Water in the Seventh-day Adventist health mission titled Creation Life).
On January 2, 2019, Florida Hospital Orlando changed its name to AdventHealth Orlando.
In October 2020, 1,800 solar panel carport
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was installed at AdventHealth Orlando on top of its McRae parking garage. It can charge over thirty-two electric cars. It will create 1.3 million kilowatts yearly and will save over $4.6 million in energy
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costs.
Affiliations
AdventHealth Orlando has close ties with seven other hospitals in the Greater Orlando
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area. They are:
* AdventHealth Altamonte Springs
Altamonte Springs is a suburban city in central Florida in Seminole County, Florida, United States, which had a population of 46,231 at the 2020 United States Census. The city is in the northern suburbs of the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford Metr ...
* AdventHealth Apopka
Apopka is a city in Orange County, Florida. The city's population was 55,000 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford Metropolitan Statistical Area. ''Apopka'' comes from Seminole word ''Ahapopka'' for "Potato eating ...
* AdventHealth Celebration
* AdventHealth East Orlando
* AdventHealth Kissimmee
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* AdventHealth Winter Garden
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History
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* AdventHealth Winter Park
Awards
US News Rankings listed the AdventHealth Orlando Hospital
See also
* List of AdventHealth hospitals
AdventHealth Orlando is the second largest hospital in Florida and the largest in Central Florida. AdventHealth Orlando is the 10th largest hospital in the United States in 2019. By Newsweek the best hospitals in the world in 2021 were Parker Adve ...
* 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 ...
References
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