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Colorado Sanitarium, also known as Boulder Sanitarium, was an Adventist health facility in Boulder, Colorado that continues to exist today as AdventHealth Avista in nearby Louisville. It was the third Seventh-day Adventist health institution to be founded in the denomination. A nursing school connected to the sanitarium that during its heyday produced some of the best trained nurses in the region. Today the medical facility offers comprehensive medical, emergency, and Level III trauma care.
The Community Hospital of Seventh-day Adventists is located in Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies.
Curitiba Adventist Clinic is a medical health institution of the Seventh-day Adventist Church located in the territory of the South Brazil Union. Its headquarters is in the city of Curitiba, in the state of Paraná, Brazil.
The Dar El Salam Hospital was an 85-bed medical facility in Baghdad, Iraq, sponsored by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. It operated from 1946 to June 1959.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Medical Institution
The Davis Memorial Hospital and Clinic is a 40-bed general acute care facility in Georgetown, Guyana, operated by the Caribbean Union Conference. It was named after O. E. Davis, a Seventh-day Adventist missionary who died in 1911 while serving the Indigenous people in British Guiana. The Adventist medical work began in 1952 with the decision to build a clinic in Queenstown; and the cornerstone was laid on November 9 of that year.
Established in 1995 in the Arhiba neighborhood, the Djibouti Adventist Health Centre (DAHC) is a community health ministry operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Djibouti City, Djibouti.
Ebenezer Adventist Health Centre in Ntandi, Uganda, is a Health Centre III medical facility serving the impoverished people of Mabere sub-county.
Eden Adventist Hospital (aka. Eden Yoyang Byungwon) is a medical institution established by the Korean Union Conference in 2001 to achieve preventive healthcare and medical missionary work. This hospital, located in 160, Biryong-ro 1782beon-gil, Sudong-myeon, Namyangju-si, is an integrated cancer treatment hospital with 195 beds and eight medical departments.
The Eden Senior Sanitarium Center (ESSC) is an elderly care facility belonging to Sahmyook Welfare Foundation. The center, located at 36-52, Biryong-ro 1742beon-gil, Sudong-myeon, Namyangju-si, Gyeonggi-do, operates with 100 facility beneficiaries and 65 employees as of 2021.
Empress Zewditu Memorial Hospital in Addis Ababa occupies a distinguished place in the history of Seventh-day Adventist medical missionary work in Ethiopia. For more than four decades (1933-1974), it served as the flagship Adventist healthcare institution in the country.
The first Adventist Hospital in the state of Espírito Santo operated for 18 years in the county of Vila Velha, offering quality medical care combined with gospel preaching. Known as Vitoria Adventist Hospital (HAV) it carried this name for 14 years until it was renamed as the Espírito Santo Adventist Hospital in 1996.
Frydenstrand Badesanatorium was the first Seventh-day Adventist sanatorium in Europe, situated in the Danish port city of Frederikshavn. It was operated as an institution along the principles of John H. Kellogg’s Battle Creek Sanitorium and attracted a good number of Scandinavian guests. Financially it was challenged and remained only 16 years as a church owned health institution. In private hands it was still run by Adventists after the principles of Kellogg and J.C. Ottosen until 1952.
Giffard Memorial Hospital, situated in the Nuzvid, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, India, is 250-bed general hospital operated by the Medical Educational Trust Association Surat for the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Southern Asia Division.
Gitwe Adventist Health Center is a Seventh-day Adventist medical facility serving communities in the Ruhango District, Southern Province, Rwanda, in East-Central Africa Division
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Togo is well known in this country for its eye hospital of Glei, commonly known in French as Centre Hospitalier Adventiste d’Ophtalmologie of Glei with the acronym CHAO Glei. The hospital building was inaugurated on April 4, 1984, and offered general medicine services. The ophthalmology unit began operating in 1992 with the arrival of a missionary couple, Edgard and Cristina d’Oliveira, from Brazil.
Good Hope Clinic (Clínica Good Hope, CGH) is a medical health institution of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the territory of the South Peru Union Mission. Its headquarters is in the district of Miraflores, the city of Lima, the province and department of Lima, Republic of Peru.
Gopalganj Seventh-day Adventist Hospital was a medical institution located in the southwestern part of the Bhil Delta area of East Bengal (now Bangladesh). It was one of the oldest mission stations in India, and it operated from 1906 until 1985.
Initially called the “Southern Sanitarium,” Graysville Sanitarium was the first Adventist health facility in the American South. It was located thirty-two miles north of Chattanooga on Queen and Crescent Road. Graysville became an important Adventist center dubbed “The Battle Creek of the South.”
Guam Seventh-day Adventist Clinic, Inc. is a medical facility situated in Tamuning, Guam. Opened in 1956, the clinic operates under the supervision of the Guam-Micronesia Mission of Seventh-day Adventists.
Gweru Adventist Health Practice is a medical institution of the Zimbabwe Central Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.