Following an 1865 vision, Seventh Day Adventist Prophetess Ellen White described a health institute, where faith, a vegetarian diet, a healthy, restful environment, and instruction for self–care would cure patients of a variety of ills. The following year his vision was fulfilled with the founding of the Western Health Reform Institute in Battle Creek. Though this would be renamed the Battle Creek Medical and Surgical Sanitarium and employ Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the institution continued to promote Adventist diet and lifestyle-based health reform, as well as offer more traditional medical treatments, before its decline from prominence in the mid-20th century.
