About Andrews Memorial
Healing the whole person since 1944
For more than eighty years, Andrews Memorial has cared for Jamaica from the same address on Hope Road. The Seventh-day Adventist Church owns and runs the hospital, and its mission hasn’t changed: to look after body, mind and spirit.
Our mission
Extending Christ’s healing ministry.
Our vision
Excellence in the delivery of wholistic healthcare in the region.
Our core values
- Quality
- Integrity
- Compassion
- Collaboration
- Commitment
- Accountability
The Andrews experience
Care for body, mind and spirit
As a Christian hospital, we see our work as helping to relieve pain and suffering and to meet each patient’s spiritual, mental and physical needs. Alongside modern scientific medicine, we encourage patients to live in step with the natural laws of health, temperance among them.
We promise to treat every patient with promptness, dignity and empathy, whatever their class, race or religion. And we want Andrews to be a place where nurses, doctors and staff can grow their skills to meet the needs of the community.
Our story
Eight decades on Hope Road
- 1943
Leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s General Conference and Inter-American Division see the need for a church hospital in the region.
- 1944
Andrews Memorial Hospital opens at 27 Hope Road, Kingston, named in honour of the Adventist missionary John N. Andrews.
- 1956
The hospital appoints its first full-time chaplain, Pastor Owen P. Reid.
- 1995
A sister-hospital partnership begins with Florida Hospital, now AdventHealth, bringing equipment, training and professional exchange.
- 2005
The Tai Wing opens, adding 27 beds and 11 physician offices.
- 2017
A chapel is completed on the grounds, and the Maternity Unit wins Nursing Department of the Year for the second time.
- 2023
With AdventHealth and the GSI Foundation, the hospital donates 40 beds to Jamaica’s public hospitals. Another 70 follow in April 2025.
- 2024
Andrews marks 80 years with a thanksgiving service, where Prime Minister Andrew Holness praises its commitment to whole-person care. Two days later the hospital begins its move towards high reliability and international accreditation.
- 2025
An MRI suite and a cardiac catheterization lab open in January. In April, our neurosurgeons perform the English-speaking Caribbean’s first lumbar disc replacement.
- 2025
Through Hurricane Melissa the hospital runs in emergency mode. Staff then take care packages to Black River Hospital and hold a free clinic for about 365 people in St Elizabeth.
- 2026
Andrews becomes Jamaica’s first DAISY Award hospital, and registered nurse Merissa Geoghagen is named the country’s first honoree. With AdventHealth, free health missions reach about 1,500 people in St Elizabeth and Westmoreland.
Leadership
The administrative council
The President and CEO leads the hospital’s administration, with directors responsible for operations, finance, nursing and human resources.
Donmayne Gyles
President and Chief Executive Officer
Lana Webb-Brown
Director of Operations
Errol Malcolm
CFO and Director of Finance (Interim)
Lisa Henry
Director, Nursing Services
Alanie Lewis
Director, Human Resources
Carla Beecher-Welsh
Executive Administrative Assistant to the President and CEO
Partners and community
Caring beyond our gates
Hurricane recovery clinicAfter Hurricane Melissa we brought medical, dental, optical and counselling care to about 365 people in Balaclava, Thornton and Siloah, St Elizabeth.
Beds for public hospitalsWith AdventHealth and the GSI Foundation, we’ve helped give 110 hospital beds to the Ministry of Health and Wellness.
Supporting nursing studentsOne hundred Northern Caribbean University nursing students received laptops and pulse oximeters from AdventHealth and Andrews.Work with us
We’re hiring registered nurses, radiographers, pharmacists, porters and more.