Adventist News around the Globe

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As Adventist Church in Brazil grows, so do schools....


"...With a 37 percent increase in schools over the past decade -- now 318 -- Seventh-day Adventist education in Brazil is booming. Adventist-run schools are deemed some of the country's most competitive, drawing significant non-Adventist enrollment, and are positioned to help grow the church's membership, Adventist leaders there say...."

Church leaders in Brazil hope the construction of new schools, one of which will open in two years, will encourage more Adventists to attend church-run schools....

"Adventist schools already appear among the best in the country in the teaching rankings from the Ministry of Education," the Brazilian news magazine Veja reported last September..........."



http://news.adventist.org/data/2008/1206723344/index.html.en

 

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The Adventist Church operates more than 170 hospitals around the world. Whatever and wherever they are - private hospitals in metropolitan areas or mission hospitals in rural areas - Adventist hospitals all serve the same purpose: "to make people whole."

In the South Pacific, Sydney Adventist Hospital has been serving its community for more than 100 years; Atoifi Adventist Hospital in the Solomon Islands for the past 38 years.

Sydney Adventist Hospital

Sydney Adventist Hospital is located in Wahroonga, Sydney, Australia. It is the largest not-for-profit private hospital serving the North Shore of Sydney.

The hospital cares for more than 40,000 in-patients and 170,000 outpatients annually. It offers acute surgical, medical and obstetric care, including complex cardiac and orthopaedic procedures. It has cutting-edge, acute-care facilities such as a state-of-the-art Cardiac Cath Lab, an urology laser, a 16-slice CT scanner and a 1.6 Tesla MRI on-site.

Outpatient services include physiotherapy, radiology, ultrasound services for women, pathology, radiation oncology, nuclear medicine, dietician services, health assessments and an on-site family medical and dental centre.

The hospital, in conjunction with Avondale College, a Christian tertiary education institution in the Central Coast of NSW, Australia, offers a bachelor degree in nursing, giving students an opportunity to gain practical experience.


The church also operates clinics and health centres in remote areas of the South Pacific - mainly in Papua New Guinea and in the Solomons - providing a positive difference to community health.