AdventHealth 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. On January 2, 2019, Adventist Health System rebranded to AdventHealth. It is the largest not-for-profit Protestant health care provider In 2021, it was the second largest in Florida. On February 28, 2023, it was the fifteenth largest hospital network in the country. It operates 53 hospitals in nine states that serve more than 6.7 million patients annually.
History
On February 15, 1973, Southern Adventist Health and Hospital Systems, Inc. was founded at Florida Hospital Orlando. The hospital network, unified nine hospitals across the Southern Union Conference which existed for decades. It later changed its name to Adventist Health System.
Adventist Health System moved into a new five-story office building in Altamonte Springs that opened in 2011, to house their administrative leaders. The corporate headquarters was awarded the Energy and Environmental Design silver certificate from the U.S. Green Building Council. On April 10, 2012, construction began on a six-story office building and parking garage, next to Adventist Health Systems headquarters. The second office building opened in 2013.In 2016 construction began on a five-story office building and a seven-story parking garage, the third office building opened in 2018 On December 8, 2016, Adventist Health System board of directors chose Terry Shaw as president and CEO. He immediately replaced Don Jernigan who retired, Jernigan had been leader for ten years.
On August 14, 2018, Adventist Health System announced that it would be rebranding its name to AdventHealth. Adventist Health System for two years had been working on rebranding, starting with a committee to study the topic. On January 2, 2019, its subsidaries Florida Hospital, Metroplex Health System, Park Ridge Health, Murray Medical Center and Gordon Hospital rebranded to AdventHealth, with the exception of its hospitals in Colorado, Illinois and Texas Health Huguley Hospital Fort Worth South. On August 28, 2019, AdventHealth unveiled its command center which is named Mission Control. The 12,000-square-foot command center was built for $20 million at AdventHealth Orlando's campus. GE Healthcare helped to build Mission Control, which is the largest command center and the second in Florida. Mission Control helps to keep track of the patients at AdventHealth's hospitals in central Florida. It is operated by 50 nurses, EMS, flight dispatchers, transport techs and other specialists. It will reduce a patients time in the ER and in a hospital bed.
On January 6, 2021, AdventHealth announced that Daryl Tol president and CEO of AdventHealth Central Florida Division had resigned. On January 14, 2021, it announced that Randy Haffner would be the new president and CEO of its Central Florida division. He took office on February 1, 2021. On May 6, 2021, AdventHealth was chosen by Walt Disney World to be its official health care provider and also its official virtual health care provider. On June 15, 2021, AdventHealth chose Neil Finkler to be chief clinical for its Central Florida Division, which was one of two new jobs that it created in 2021. On August 19, 2021, AdventHealth announced that Mike Schultz president and CEO of AdventHealth West Florida Division would retire at the end of the year and that he would be replaced by David Ottati.
Hospitals
AdventHealth Orlando is the second largest hospital in Florida and the largest in central Florida. AdventHealth Orlando is the 3rd largest hospital in the United States in 2023.
By Newsweek the best hospitals in the world in 2021 were Parker Adventist Hospital #131, AMITA Health Adventist Medical Center Hinsdale (know UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale) #169, AdventHealth Orlando #171, Porter Adventist Hospital #201, AdventHealth Shawnee Mission #292, AMITA Health Adventist Medical Center La Grange (know UChicago Medicine AdventHealth La Grange) #298
The thirty-three best hospitals in Florida by U.S. News & World Report in 2022 were: AdventHealth Orlando #2, AdventHealth Daytona Beach #18 and AdventHealth Waterman #29.