Orlando's earliest hospitals were run by religious organizations. In 1908, a group of Seventh Day Adventists established the Florida Hospital and Sanitarium, which later became the nucleus of the Florida Hospital system.
Central Florida was spared from many of the epidemics that hit northern cities. Many northerners were advised by their physicians to spend winters in Florida to improve their health, and some sanitariums catered to those recovering from tuberculosis.
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