Adventist Health System is a range of facilities and health care centers with the tradition of promoting healthy and full lives to the community for more than 100 years ago. The first healthcare center founded by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan was in 1866. It was created to provide scientific treatment of disease, but also education and prevention, a tradition that still today leads Adventist healthcare.
The Seventh-Day Adventist Church sponsors over five hundred healthcare centers committed to helping patients attain a healthy life, physically, as much as mentally, and spiritually. These healthcare facilities include more than 160 hospitals and many nursing homes, dispensaries, and clinics. This health network is a major institution in home health care. Sunbelt Home Health, its home health care division, has hospital-based as well as freestanding centers. It is currently responsible for more than 23 home health and hospice centers. Additionally, various Adventist Health System hospitals own and manage individual home health agencies.
Adventist Health System also manages 24 extended-care centers with more than 3,600 long-term care beds for patients in need of additional rehabilitation and medical services. Adventist Care Centers (formerly Sunbelt Health Care Centers), the Adventist Health System nursing home division, manages 23 nursing homes and provides cardiac care and respiratory therapy, among other specialized health care services.
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