“Adventist Health and St. Joseph Health, which operate such North Bay facilities as St. Helena hospital, Queen of the Valley and Santa Rosa Memorial, plan to merge clinical activities and services in Northern California. The joint operating company will involve clinics and facilities in Humboldt, Mendocino, Sonoma, Lake, Napa and Solano counties.
“Under the deal…, North Coast facilities, services and clinics associated with Adventist Health — Howard Memorial in Willits, Adventist Health Ukiah Valley, Adventist Health Clear Lake, Adventist Health St. Helena and Adventist Health Vallejo Center for Behavioral Health — would come under the operating agreement with the Home Health services and facilities, services and clinics associated with St. Joseph Hospital Eureka, Redwood Memorial Hospital, Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, Napa’s Queen of the Valley Hospital and the St. Joseph Home Care Network.
The… arrangement does not include the other 15 Adventist Health hospitals in the western United States or the other 46 Providence St. Joseph Health hospitals located throughout the western United States and Texas.
Under this affiliation, which is subject to regulatory review, Adventist Health and St. Joseph Health will retain existing hospital names, licenses, capital assets and employees. The proposed transaction is set to close sometime later this year.
“By coming together under a new organization, we will work together to ensure a healthier future for the communities we serve by providing patients access to a full continuum of high-quality services close to home,” said Kevin Klockenga, St. Joseph Health Northern California region president and CEO.
Providence St. Joseph Health is a Catholic health system, which in total, serves seven states, with 111,000 employees. Adventist Health is a faith-based, nonprofit integrated health system that serves more than 75 communities on the U.S. West Coast and Hawaii, with more than 24,600 employees.
Now that the Adventist Health System is no longer following the plan outlines in its inspired guidance, it is no wonder that it is seeking partners loyal to the Catholic Church. This merger is part of a larger trend to get closer and closer to Rome.
“O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.” Jeremiah 6:26.
Comments
Emory Sims
Thursday May 3rd, 2018 at 07:19 AMI notice the Adventist Health Systems have merged here in Colorado after I move here from Florida back in 2013. The local Adventist hospital, Porter Adventist Hospital, has been getting very bad press on the local news about not properly sterilizing surgical tools that may have expose their patients to HIV and other diseases. This is a big let down to the faith of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. How could they merge with the Roman Catholic Church that Ellen G. White warns us about in her writings. This is proof that the Adventist Church is no longer the church it claims to be and proof that the church leaders have been replaced with infiltrators of Rome.
Janet Perry
Friday May 4th, 2018 at 10:31 AMI agree with you all the way. Even in our universities untruths are being taught. It only shows how close to the end we really are. I have always said that we haven’t seen the remnant church yet. We have the remnant message but not the remnant church
Desmond
Thursday May 3rd, 2018 at 06:53 PMIt’s shame we are being sold to God chief enemy what shame Ellen must turn in her grave
Michael Hamblin
Friday May 4th, 2018 at 10:41 AMAha! It may help with the Abortion on Demand issue in our Adventist Hospitals………….But i am also a bit Concerned at this Collaboration especially when Pastors dont like me mentioning the Pope and Papacy on FB!!
Daryl
Friday May 4th, 2018 at 08:04 PMAdventist Health has gotten to be very strong here in central valley , California. Much advertising on TV and mailing is being done. Bakersfield,ca. has merged with the Catholic church years ago and I worry that as we see the continual pattern unfolding our three hospitals here will probably end up doing the same.
Loretta Vincent
Saturday May 5th, 2018 at 04:53 PMI SIMPLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND W H Y????
OUR ADVENTIST HEALTH , WOULD MERGE WITH THE CATHOLIC ST JOSEPH HEALTH (AND THE LIKE ). After all we’ve been taught
Through THE YEARS!
I AM SHOCKED &EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED, To Say The Very Least.
I am NOT a Pain in the neck RELIGIOUS
PERSON, trying to Push My Beliefs On Others
Thinking I’m Always Right, But I DO BELIEVE
IN THE BIBLE COMPLETELY A N D IN ELLEN G. WHITES WRITINGS. GOD BE WITH ME
AND MY FAMILY & FRIENDS , to have the right attitude TO: Say, I Can Do ♥️
Theresa Labao
Saturday May 5th, 2018 at 10:58 PMI say shame, how can two walk together less they agree. I do not understand. Our message is not on Physical, it is Spiritual, it is Mentally as well. We want the whole person to b healed and brought into Harmony with our Creator and to know that we must Fear God for the Hour of his judgment has come. What happened to the three Angels flying in the Midst of Heaven?
ELao
Sunday May 6th, 2018 at 10:56 PMBe ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?” 2 Cor 6:14
For a Bible believing institution to enter into a partnership with a Bible unbeliever is a disaster. The opposing principles and morals, and business decisions made daily will reflect the worldview of one partner or the other. For the relationship to work, one or the other must abandon his moral standard and move toward that of the other. More often than not, it is the believer who finds himself pressured to leave his Christian principles behind for the sake of profit and the growth of the business.
Christo
Monday April 8th, 2019 at 08:09 PMWise decision. Streamlining operations saves money. May God bless the work.