About Us

Sydney Adventist Hospital (SAH), known as ‘the San’, is a not-for-profit facility of the South Pacific Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.  An acute-care private hospital with 352 licensed overnight beds, it is the largest single campus private hospital in NSW and the first to be accredited by the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards. In 2006 the San won the prestigious Australian Private Hospitals Association Award for Clinical Excellence (70 beds and over).

The San is the largest single employer in the Hornsby-Kuring-gai Council area.  Over 2,200 staff and 600 accredited medical practitioners care for more than 45,000 inpatients and 155,000 outpatients annually and over 2,000 babies are delivered each year. Emergency Care admits over 20,000 patients each year making it NSW’s largest and busiest private Hospital Emergency Department. Offering acute surgical, medical and obstetric care including complex cardiac and orthopaedic procedures, the San also has cutting-edge, acute-care facilities, including 12 operating theatre suites, 3 state-of-the-art Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratories, urology lasers and Australia’s first dual source CT scanner installed in San Radiology.  It also owns and operates San Day Surgery Hornsby and Sydney Haematology & Oncology Centre (located in Hornsby).

Outpatient services at the San include physiotherapy, radiology, ultrasound services for women, pathology, radiation oncology, nuclear medicine, wound care clinic, dietician services, a Children’s Sleep Disorders Unit, the Hospital in the Home program and an on-site family medical and dental centre.  Support services available on the campus include Cardiac Rehabilitation, San Cancer Support and Jacaranda Lodge which offers low-cost accommodation for outpatients and their families who live far from the San and other hospitals in Sydney where they are being treated.

The hospital also operates a Healthcare Outreach Program and since the early 1980’s has been in partnership with AusAid, the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) and others, sending approximately 1,500 volunteers on over 90 surgical trips to South Pacific and South-East Asian counties to do surgeries on over 2841 patients. The medical and nursing specialist volunteers undertake life-saving cardiac surgery and do corrective surgery to repair cleft lips and palates and burns scar contracture repairs. 

In recent times the San has completed major refurbishments of inpatient ward areas increasing the number of private en-suite rooms for patients and providing a new Children's ward, refurbished Cancer ward, Emergency Medical Unit and purpose built facility for San Physiotherapy.  Two new state-of-the-art operating theatres with navigational technology were opened in 2007. In 2009, the hospital opened the new San Day Infusion Centre and Emergency Medical Unit, and refurbished the San Physiotherapy Department.

On site facilities include the San Clinic, which provides specialist consultant rooms for up to 100 specialists and the Wai Fong Poon Child Care Centre which provides childcare for staff, local families and patients.
 
The San College of Education is a registered training organisation which offers an extensive range of nationally recognised certificate programs to San and other employees while Avondale College Faculty of Nursing & Health is one of Australia’s last remaining on-site nursing schools and provides comprehensive nursing education in both under-graduate and post-graduate courses. 

The Australasian Research Institute (ARI) was established in 2004 to facilitate, coordinate and fund innovative and developmental research within the Adventist Healthcare setting.  The ARI cooperates with other organisations and individuals where possible to conduct or commission research into patient care, nutrition, healthcare and many related fields.