Shawna Malvini Adventist Health GLEANER correspondent By Shawna Malvini Building Community In 1913, one year before World War I began, what is now Tillamook County General Hospital (TCGH) opened its doors on the Oregon Coast. Changing hands several times throughout the next 60 years, TCGH eventually joined Adventist Health in the early ... Read more Building Structure How much steel does it take to improve patient care? At Adventist Medical Center (AMC) in Portland, Oregon, the magic number is 950 tons. That’s enough steel for more than seven Statues of Liberty. It’s also enough structural steel to support AMC’... Read more Building Character Thanks to a stint in the military, Deanne Porchowsky changed her career path. Thanks to incredible co-workers at Walla Walla General Hospital (WWGH), she transformed her whole life.While working as a network administrator in the Air Force, Deanne ... Read more Making a Mission A TCGH Team Shares Gods Love in Mexico Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.The mission of Tillamook County General Hospital (TCGH), like other Adventist Health hospitals, is to "Share God's love by providing physical, mental and spi... Read more Changes in California Health Care Saying Goodbye to Paradise Valley Hospital In 1904 when founders established the sanitarium that would eventually become Paradise Valley Hospital (PVH), life was dramatically different compared to today. The average person's life expectancy was a mere 47.6 years, and after heart disease, h... Read more Medical Imaging Technology Improves Patient Care at AMC To the average person, single-photon emission computed tomography and computed tomography (SPECT/CT) may sound like technical jargon. But to clinicians at Adventist Medical Center (AMC) in Portland, Oregon, SPECT/CT sounds like the wave of the fut... Read more Award-winning Care in the Comfort of Home Think about traveling for long periods of time. Don’t you miss your own bed? Familiar food? Your furry, four-legged friends?Now think about being in the hospital. Besides worrying about recovery, wouldn’t you still miss those creature comforts of ... Read more News Notes Alan J. Rice retired as senior vice president at Adventist Health and concluded his 36-year career Dec. 31, 2006. During his tenure, Rice worked in many leadership capacities and received many national recognition awards. As a result of Rice’s ret... Read more Building on the Foundation of Whole Person Care More than a century ago Adventist Medical Center (AMC) in Portland, Ore., launched a legacy from a tiny, six-patient sanitarium. With its Seventh-day Adventist mission, AMC laid the symbolic foundation of whole person care, paving the way for grow... Read more A CHIPer Way of Life Tillamook native Marie Hasbrouch is an engaging, talkative and healthy woman. To look at her, it’s hard to guess her true age of 76 or that she’s ever been unwell. Two years ago she had diabetes, heart trouble, sleep apnea and arthritis. These hea... Read more Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 4
Building Community In 1913, one year before World War I began, what is now Tillamook County General Hospital (TCGH) opened its doors on the Oregon Coast. Changing hands several times throughout the next 60 years, TCGH eventually joined Adventist Health in the early ... Read more
Building Structure How much steel does it take to improve patient care? At Adventist Medical Center (AMC) in Portland, Oregon, the magic number is 950 tons. That’s enough steel for more than seven Statues of Liberty. It’s also enough structural steel to support AMC’... Read more
Building Character Thanks to a stint in the military, Deanne Porchowsky changed her career path. Thanks to incredible co-workers at Walla Walla General Hospital (WWGH), she transformed her whole life.While working as a network administrator in the Air Force, Deanne ... Read more
Making a Mission A TCGH Team Shares Gods Love in Mexico Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.The mission of Tillamook County General Hospital (TCGH), like other Adventist Health hospitals, is to "Share God's love by providing physical, mental and spi... Read more
Changes in California Health Care Saying Goodbye to Paradise Valley Hospital In 1904 when founders established the sanitarium that would eventually become Paradise Valley Hospital (PVH), life was dramatically different compared to today. The average person's life expectancy was a mere 47.6 years, and after heart disease, h... Read more
Medical Imaging Technology Improves Patient Care at AMC To the average person, single-photon emission computed tomography and computed tomography (SPECT/CT) may sound like technical jargon. But to clinicians at Adventist Medical Center (AMC) in Portland, Oregon, SPECT/CT sounds like the wave of the fut... Read more
Award-winning Care in the Comfort of Home Think about traveling for long periods of time. Don’t you miss your own bed? Familiar food? Your furry, four-legged friends?Now think about being in the hospital. Besides worrying about recovery, wouldn’t you still miss those creature comforts of ... Read more
News Notes Alan J. Rice retired as senior vice president at Adventist Health and concluded his 36-year career Dec. 31, 2006. During his tenure, Rice worked in many leadership capacities and received many national recognition awards. As a result of Rice’s ret... Read more
Building on the Foundation of Whole Person Care More than a century ago Adventist Medical Center (AMC) in Portland, Ore., launched a legacy from a tiny, six-patient sanitarium. With its Seventh-day Adventist mission, AMC laid the symbolic foundation of whole person care, paving the way for grow... Read more
A CHIPer Way of Life Tillamook native Marie Hasbrouch is an engaging, talkative and healthy woman. To look at her, it’s hard to guess her true age of 76 or that she’s ever been unwell. Two years ago she had diabetes, heart trouble, sleep apnea and arthritis. These hea... Read more
