Creating Calm Rachel Russell and the Theory of Mutual Influence The most stressful aspect of hospitalization often has nothing to do with medical procedures. For some, their bill causes the greatest anxiety. Fortunately, patients at Walla Walla General Hospital can turn to Rachel Russell to calm the storm of q... Read more
Touching Lives in Tillamook County Webster’s dictionary defines faithfulness as "keeping faith; worthy of trust; honest, loyal, reliable and dependable; accurate, exact and true; and full of faith, especially religious faith." Faithfulness is surely a word that describes Dorothy Jo... Read more
Adventist Health News Notes Adventist Medical Center recently won a 2004 CAPE Award from the California Council for Excellence (CCE). The CAPE Award recognizes companies, government agencies, educational institutions, health-care facilities and non-profit organizations that ... Read more
Adventist Medical Center Opens New Outpatient Center When Adventist Medical Center (AMC) began looking for growth opportunities, all indicators pointed to Gresham, Ore. This booming community of 90,000 is the fourth largest city in the state and boasts an increasing amount of high-tech development.T... Read more
Called to Serve She still can’t tell the story without crying.The middle-aged man had been brought, unconscious, to Walla Walla General Hospital (WWGH) in the grip of a severe heart attack, and Rebecca Bissell, R.N., was part of the emergency team trying to keep ... Read more
TCGH Staffers Join Disaster Relief Team TILLAMOOK—“I’m too crazy to be scared.”Larry Hamilton, the emergency room manager at Tillamook County General Hospital, had just finished listing some of the places he’s traveled to on emergency medical teams—Mozambique, Honduras, Zaire, to name a... Read more
Preserving the Spirit of Healing: The Chaplains' Endowment At AMC, chaplains are a critical component of patient care. To that end, the hospital has established a Chaplains' Endowment Fund with the ambitious goal of raising $6.2 million. After four years, more than $5.2 million has already been donated an... Read more
Night Duty: Answering God's Call Tom Stafford unlocked the door to the chaplain’s office and flipped on the light. Everyone was gone for the day, but as a relief chaplain at Adventist Medical Center (AMC) in Portland, Ore., Tom had just finished his evening rounds on the units. A... Read more
