Salvatore Volatile
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 9:47 pm
Post subject: Re: Sacrilege |
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Tony Cooper wrote:
| Quote: | With the possible exception of Loma Linda CA, I think that the Orlando
FL area has the largest concentration of SDAs of any metropolitan area
in the country. Since I was in the medical equipment business for
most of my life, I've worked with all of the SDA hospitals here...and
they are the dominant hospital presence in this area. While it's not
required to be a SDA to be an employee of a SDA hospital, almost all
of the non-medical employees are.
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BTW, Coop, why is that -- how did Orlando come to be a center for SDAs?
There's got to be a reason. (And why Loma Linda, while you're at it?) |
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Tony Cooper
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| Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 6:04 am
Post subject: Re: Sacrilege |
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On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 19:47:24 +0000 (UTC), Salvatore Volatile
<me@privacy.net> wrote:
| Quote: | Tony Cooper wrote:
With the possible exception of Loma Linda CA, I think that the Orlando
FL area has the largest concentration of SDAs of any metropolitan area
in the country. Since I was in the medical equipment business for
most of my life, I've worked with all of the SDA hospitals here...and
they are the dominant hospital presence in this area. While it's not
required to be a SDA to be an employee of a SDA hospital, almost all
of the non-medical employees are.
BTW, Coop, why is that -- how did Orlando come to be a center for SDAs?
There's got to be a reason. (And why Loma Linda, while you're at it?)
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Rather than copy/paste, I'll give you a link that will explain:
http://www.floridahospital.org/homepage/history.htm (1)
As that facility grew, the SDAs built a large school here and this
expanded the base since the school hired SDA teachers and workers.
Many SDA churches were built and the area became a mecca for SDAs.
There are grocery stores and bakeries that cater to the SDAs. You
can't just pop into Publix and find a wide selection of fake meat
products. Some, but not a wide selection.
I don't know much about Loma Linda, but Loma Linda University Medical
Center is an SDA run medical school. I would imagine the story is
much the same as Orlando's, but Florida Hospital is not part of a
medical school. It is a teaching institution, but not a medical
school.
(1) Not mentioned in this article is that the Sanitarium (locals still
sometimes call Florida Hospital "Florida San") also owned and operated
a facility for Negroes. Negroes were not admitted to the Florida
Sanitarium, but were admitted to a separate (but equal?) facility a
few blocks away. That facility was expanded to include a birthing
facility for Negroes.
Local African American organizations wanted to make part of the old
Negro facility a museum when the building was still standing, but
Florida Hospital quietly razed the facility and built something new on
the location. There's not even a photograph of the old facility in
the hall of Florida Hospital where the history of the hospital is
detailed. |
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