Adventist Health is a faith-based, nonprofit, health care system that serves more “than 80 communities on the West Coast and Hawaii with over 400 sites of care.” Adventist Health also claims that its mission is an “expression of the Adventist faith and a contemporary expression of the healing ministry of Jesus.” [1] Advent Health is also an organization that is under the jurisdiction of the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists. [2]
Despite being affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Adventist Health has put in place a system-wide corporate policy for all of its 400+ healthcare sites that prevents using the wrong pronoun, misgendering a patient’s sexual identity, or causing emotional distress by failing to affirm the patient’s true, authentic self. Adventist Health has developed policies that affirm a patient’s self-identification and that assign rooms to patients based on their gender identities rather than the biological sex they were born with. These policies are due to the fact that Adventist Health is “a recipient of federal financial assistance.”
The official system-wide corporate policy for Adventist Health states the following:
• “Adventist Health does not discriminate or treat people differently because of their ability to pay, age, ancestry, color, creed, culture, disability, gender identity or expression, language, marital status, medical condition, national origin, race, registered domestic partner status, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, transgender status, type of insurance, or veteran’s status.” [3]
• “All patient care areas are affected by this policy.” [3]
• “Room Assignments: Room assignments for admitted patients will be based on gender identity.” [3]
• “Adventist Health entities permit their healthcare professionals to opt-out of participating in services that violate their conscience or values. Entities can arrange for other healthcare professionals to deliver care to the patient.” [3]
• “As a recipient of Federal financial assistance, Adventist Health will provide an environment for patients that is free from discrimination and will not exclude or treat people differently because of their ability to pay, age, color, creed, culture, disability, gender identity or expression, language, marital status, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, transgender status, type of insurance, or veteran’s status, when delivering care, treatment, services and benefits for inpatients and outpatients, including assignments or transfers within the facility and referrals to or from the facility directly or through contractual or other arrangements.” [3]
This corporate statement says that because Adventist Health is a recipient of federal financial assistance, it will not discriminate against gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or transgender status when delivering care, treatment, or services. It also says that room assignments and sharing will be based on gender identity, not biological sex. Additionally, it states that if certain medical procedures violate the conscience and values of their medical team, they could opt out, but the facility will still perform the procedures. What medical services would go against the staff’s moral code? Abortions? Gender-affirming surgeries? Hormone therapy? Voice and speech therapy for those transitioning?
These are the consequences of funding religious organizations and ministries with tax money. Our institutions become completely secularized as a result, and our truths are rejected. Do not believe for a moment that accepting federal or state funding has no impact on our hospitals and schools. It does, and we are witnessing the results.
When Seventh-day Adventist healthcare institutions begin assigning patients to hospital rooms based on gender identity rather than biological sex, that tells you that we have surrendered biblical truth and have bowed to the LGBT+ movement. Not all of Adventist Health’s hospital rooms are private. [4] This means that a man who identifies as a woman has the right to share a room with other women if the room assignment is based on gender identity.
Do you want your daughter, wife, or mother who is sick and unable to defend themselves to be put in a room with a biological male who may be suffering from a mental health diagnosis? What has happened to women’s rights, women’s identity, and women’s privacy? Unfortunately, real women are being erased as a result of the LGBT+ movement and Adventist Health’s policies.
Adventist healthcare has caved to transgender activists. The devil doesn’t have to put up much effort against us because we are gladly giving him the keys to our institutions without a fight. That is why the LGBT+ movement is winning and we keep losing. There is a national debate taking place right now over whether transgender women (biological men who identify as women) should be allowed to use women’s bathrooms, participate in women’s sports, and use women’s changing rooms. And Adventist institutions have just declared that they are on the wrong side of the controversy.
The debate over transgender rights has led to legal battles and controversies at various levels, including schools, businesses, churches, and government institutions. Some contend that allowing transgender women to use women’s restrooms, participate in women’s sports, and use women’s locker rooms jeopardizes the security, identity, opportunities, and rights of real women. Others have expressed concern that allowing biological men into women’s locker rooms could result in inappropriate behavior, such as young girls seeing naked men in those spaces. [5]
How can the church protest the national sins of abortion, the LGBT+ agenda, feminism, transgenderism, environmentalism, ecumenism, and Romanism while receiving money from the very people who are leading us into the final apostasy? That’s a serious conflict of interest. This is the reason why we are so silent on the moral issues. This is why there is no protest coming from many of our top leaders. This is also why most of the watchmen are fast asleep. Maybe it’s the money that is keeping us quiet. Maybe that was the plan all along.
Sources
[1] https://www.adventisthealth.org/about-us/
[2] https://adventistyearbook.org/entity?EntityID=10727
[3] https://www.adventisthealth.org/documents/Non-DiscriminationPolicy.pdf
[4] https://www.adventisthealth.org/bakersfield/patient-resources/patient-room-accommodations/
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How long is it going to take everyone to realize that all of this confusion is of the fallen angel Satan! This is his diabolical way of destroying creation. There is no such thing as a Transgender anything, the same thing applies to this fictional group that call themselves LGBTQ+ . Lucifer the fallen angel has already been sentenced to Death! …and he is doing everything he can to prevent all of Mankind from looking to the one “GOD” sent to save them. “JESUS CHRIST” …and it is clearly written:
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. John 3:16,17. …and that verification is written in the Book of 1st John wherein written: If we confess our sins, “HE” (GOD) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1st John 1:9
Amen
Isaiah 59:13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
59:14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Our universities will be next with gender-affirming dormitories.
It would have been wise to trust Jesus to provide the funds needed for Advent Care Hospitals than to go against Jesus and commit spiritual adultery and promote sexual perversion by accommodating it. All the instructions were given to Seventh-Day Adventists from God’s mouth for us through the writings given to Ellen White on how to operate our health institutions, schools, and churches, and now at the end of the age, we ignore God’s instruction and law. I would not want to be responsible for allowing the complete disregard for God’s Moral Law to receive Government funding and or promote a Transgender lifestyle by ignoring the biological sex of a patient and catering to the patient’s insanity.
“We have nothing to fear unless we forget the way God lead us in the past”
They need to look at what happened to the publishing house in Michigan when they started publishing books that were not in line with the gospel. It burned down!
They published literature to make more money! Same principle! I agree with you 100%!
I think this is evident that there is a take over in the adventist church , the abomination that will cause desolation in the mitts of adventism. This shows they want to let adventist know we have taken over and look there is nothing you can do about it!
I think we are at the point where we are going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was the plan of satan to lead GODS people into complete apostasy ..through the love of money next SDA universities will follow suit
Simple solution, personal preparation…(investigative judgment is making conclusory statements)…retain ALL your offerings, else we are accessory in fact to the denomination’s slouch towards Gomorrah!! Give ONLY to those ministries not tangled in this satanic web!!
As this news item clearly shows, there are strings attached whenever religious organizations take federal money. When you take in tax dollars, you subject yourself to government influence and intrusion. This leads to the prioritization of secular interests over religious principles. Why can’t the church see this?
You can’t affirm Bible truth and sin at the same time.
Not when a doubleminded man is unstable in all his ways.
Jesus has left the room.
The woke movement is accursed everything it touches is doomed to failure, for the most part our hospital systems are already in a terrible fallen state,
Wonder if Advent Health having received 747 million during lock down has anything to do with them following these policies in place of any: thus saith the LORD.
Many long years ago when I was a Senior at Auburn Adventist Academy in Youth Guidance Class (Bible) the teacher read this from Ellen G. White: “Just before probation closes, there will be a blurring of the sexes”. This was in 1976. We spent the rest of class period trying to figure out HOW the sexes could be blurred when there are only 2. We now know what that means. Sure wish I knew where he was reading from. I’ve never forgotten that. Forgot everything else…but not that. Are there any Seventh-day Adventist left who are not afraid to stand up for G-D and the truth?
I greatly encourage everyone who reads our opinions to gather as many signatures as possible (by sharing and showing this information provided by our wonderful SDA “Watchdogs” Advent Messenger” to those “not in the know” and mailing them to Dred Wilson!
Certain that staying silent is not an option! MOST SDA’s are NOT aware of this Apostasy!
Highly recommend acquiring the small sharing book by Pastor Bill Hughes “Remember Your Name” from Truth Triumphant Ministry’s. He writes about many other ills in our Beloved Church leadership and is well documented.