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The Adventist Health System is a non-profit health care organization which operates facilities within the Southern and Midwestern regions of the United States. It is run by the Seventh-day Adventist Church and is the largest not-for-profit Protestant healthcare provider in the nation.〔(About Us ) – Adventist Health System. Accessed 2014-04-30〕 The system supports 45 hospital campuses with nearly 8,300 licensed beds in 10 states. The full continuum of integrated care also includes urgent care centers, home health and hospice agencies, and skilled nursing facilities.〔(About Us ) – Adventist Health System. Accessed 2014-04-30〕 ==History== At the behest of Ellen G. White, the Seventh-day Adventist Church first established the innovative Western Health Reform Institute in Battle Creek, Michigan in 1866, to care for the sick as well as to disseminate health instruction. Over the years, other Adventist sanitariums were established around the country. These sanitariums evolved into hospitals, forming the backbone of the Adventists' medical network. In 1972, the church decided to centralize the management of its healthcare institutions on a regional basis and, in so doing, formed the Adventist Health System to support and strengthen Seventh-day Adventist healthcare organizations in the Southern and Southwestern regions of the United States.〔 Ten years later, the regional operations formed a national organization, Adventist Health System/U.S., which management called the largest not-for-profit, multi-institutional healthcare system in the United States.〔 Adventist Health System organizations currently operate 44 hospitals and 16 nursing homes with more than 7,700+ licensed beds, care for 4 million patients annually in inpatient, outpatient and emergency room visits, and employ 79,000 people.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Adventist Health System (2014) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adventist Health System」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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