AdventHealth - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

AdventHealth is Medium Risk.

AdventHealth is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. The company occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Medium Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	Lower Risk
Employment Protection	High Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	High Risk
Funding	Medium Risk
Political Actions	Lower Risk

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

AdventHealth follows the doctrines of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, though the organization has emphasized that it will provide medical care to anyone regardless of religious belief (1). The company integrates DEI into its supply chain. From its Commitment to Supplier Engagement Web Page: “We invite suppliers who share our values of diversity, innovation and sustainability to explore opportunities to work with us” (2). However, AdventHealth has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (3).

Criteria:

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

AdventHealth does not appear to discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs (1)(2). The company’s charitable giving focus areas are “strategic initiatives that improve community health, with a focus on underserved and marginalized populations” (3).

Criteria:

Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

AdventHealth requires its employees to take Diversity and Inclusion training (1)(2). The company was a signatory of the Orlando Economic Partnership’s DEI pledge, committing itself to fight systemic racism, prioritize the success of diverse people in its workplace, and ensure DEI “is a strategic imperative with demonstrated commitment and actions” (3). AdventHealth operates a supplier diversity program. “AdventHealth will continue to partner in an industrywide initiative to advance supplier diversity in our sector. In 2024, a local chamber of commerce honored AdventHealth as the Supplier Diversity Corporation of the Year, in recognition of our dedication to supporting diverse suppliers. In 2025, AdventHealth will continue to expand these efforts by implementing a new tool to track supplier diversity” (4). The company does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (5).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

AdventHealth is a member of the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials, committed to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 (1)(2)(3). The company was a signatory of the Health Sector Climate Pledge, committing itself to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. Signatories were expected to develop and release a climate resilience plan and appoint a corporate executive to oversee its implementation (4). AdventHealth supports DEI within its business practices, employing a Chief Diversity Officer and hosting DEI councils (5). The company supports DEI within its business practices. From its 2024 Sustainability Report: “Creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment for our team members is essential to enhancing their experience and upholding our service standards. After
activating a systemwide strategy between 2022 to 2023, we entered a new phase of our journey in 2024, focused on integration” (6). AdventHealth created a campaign called “White Coats for Black Lives,” which involved doctors kneeling “for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in remembrance of George Floyd and countless others” (7). Some branches of the company held unconscious bias workshops for employees (8).

Criteria:

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

AdventHealth is a Corporate Member of the Mid-America LGBT Chamber of Commerce (1)(2). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of AdventHealth using corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (3).

Criteria:

Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

AdventHealth does not operate a PAC at this time and has not used its lobbying for ideological purposes (1)(2)(3).