It was established in 1993 and is closely associated with Penang Adventist Hospital[2] and forms part of a network of Seventh-day Adventist owned institutions of higher education.
In the mid 1980s, the government of Thailand disallowed foreign students from sitting for the national certificate and registration examination, so Penang Adventist Hospital stopped sending students to Thailand and sought an alternative.
[5] ACNHS received approval to operate from governmental authorities in October 1992 as Adventist College of Nursing.
The school's first offering was a three-year Diploma Nursing program in September 1993.
Thereafter the conversion program was stopped and replaced by the 24-month Assistant Nurse Certificate Course which started in January 1998.