Adventist heAlth speciAl edition Northwest Adventists in Action OCTOBER 2009, Vol. 104, No. 10 Adventist heAlth: Sacred Work when god AnswersWhen God answersthethe phone phone www.GleanerOnline.org Images of Creation “ ut my eyes are fixed on you, O Sovereign LORD; in you I take refuge ... ” Psalm 141:8 (NIV) “Face of a Saw-whet Owl” by Michael Woodruff of Spokane, Washington. B In this issue Feature Editorial 4 To Serve is to Love 5 Did You Know? 16 World News Briefs ACCION 18 Hermiston en Accion News 19 Alaska 20 Idaho 21 Montana 22 Oregon 26 Upper Columbia 31 Washington 34 Walla Walla University FYI 35 /2D3<B7AB 6 3 / :B6A>317 / :327B7=< N o rth w esA t d v en stin A coti n 36 Family Healthy Choices 39 SEPTEMBER 2009 , Vol. 104, No. 6 9 40 Announcements Beyond the X-ray equipment, operating rooms 42 Advertisements and IV’s, Adventist Health workers believe their / 2 D 3 < B 7 A B 6 3 E63<5=2/:B6(Sacred Work main business is Sacred Work.” Read why in /<AE3@A���� G�� Let’s Talk � � �B63>6=<3 � 50 The Project this month’s feature beginning on page 6. � ����� w w w . 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Adventist Health Shawna K. Malvini, [email protected] www.gleaneronline.org LITHO U.S.A. OctOber 2009 • Gleaner 3 Editorial To is to Serve Lovee nice to your brother. Don’t gossip. corner as our brother? The heroin addict as BClean up after yourself. Help your friends. our sister? The murderer on the news as our Treat your neighbor as yourself. father or mother? Thinking with love can I grew up with the Golden Rule in mind, dramatically change our perspective and make and I suspect you did, too. “So in everything, John 13 an easier command to comprehend. do to others what you would have them do It’s that kind of perspective shift that’s to you” (Matthew 7:12, NIV). This makes a transforming Adventist Health. fairly easy lesson for children young and old I am especially glad this annual health to grasp. care edition of the GLEANER is focused Further on in Scripture, however, the on Sacred Work. In 2007, the health care lessons become more difficult, system introduced the term at San Joaquin especially for the adult-minded. Community Hospital in Bakersfield, Consider what Jesus said: “A new California. Since then, the concept has caught command I give you: Love one on rapidly. Simply, Sacred Work means another. As I have loved you, so expressing God’s love in practical ways you must love one another. By through everyday work. It means loving this all men will know that you coworkers, patients, community members and are my disciples, if you love one oneself. Sacred Work means love. another,” (John 13:34–35, NIV). I believe this work is integral to the very We can all probably agree with ministry of Christ who, in Ellen White’s that in principle. But how easy is it description, “ministered to people as one who to really put that into practice — to desired their best good,” (The Desire of Ages, love the neighbor who never mows the page 151). She held His method of ministry lawn; or the client who shows up late out as an example of Sacred Work for us. continually; or the annoying coworker In our Adventist hospitals, this work of who doesn’t pull his or her own love often manifests itself through service weight? — the mundane task done well, the extra I’m sure we can all mile walked, the troubled soul comforted. think of many people Our special feature this month is all about who are hard to those stories of service and love. As you read love. But, what through them, I encourage you to consider if we thought of personal applications to your own life and the that homeless principles of Galatians 5:13 — “By love, serve person on the one another.” • Max Torkelsen II North Pacific Union Conference president and Adventist Health Board of Directors vice chairman 4 This month’s GLEANER feature highlights Adventist Health. October has been a significant month in medical history. Here are a few key events originating in October. october 8, 1958 — Doctor Åke Senning october 16, 1987 — Paul Holc became the implanted the first internal heart pacemaker. youngest person in the world to receive a heart It used only two transistors, was the size of a transplant. The operation was performed by hockey puck, and worked for only three hours. surgeons at Loma Linda University Medical october 14, 1993 — Doctor Michael J. Walsh Center when Holc was three hours old. of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute october 18, 1962 — Doctors James D. Watson, announced that cystic fibrosis can be Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins won the Nobel corrected by gene therapy. Prize for Medicine and Physiology for determining the double-helix molecular structure of DNA. october 24, 1882 — Robert Koch, a German physician, discovered the tuberculosis germ. Koch received a Nobel Prize for his discoveries and is considered one of the founders of bacteriology. october 25, 1990 — The first transplant operation of a lung from a live donor to a recipient was performed by Doctor Vaughn A. Sterns at Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, California. Source: www.todayinsci.com October /2D3<B7AB 6 3 / :B6A>317 / :327B7=< N ohrt wA est dnAvi eosnti ct SEPTEMBER 2009 , Vol. 104, No. 9 Current Events Current GLEANER Issue / 2 D 3 < B 7 A B 6 3 Have you seen the photo slide- Do you have a question, E63<5=2/:B6(Sacred Work /<AE3@A���� G�� � � �B63>6=<3 � Blog cAtegories: show of the NPUC Pathfinders comment or follow-up to a � ����� at the Oshkosh Camporee? Have story in the latest issue of • cindy’s gArden Blog you read the behind-the-scenes the GLEANER? The Current w w w . G l e a n e r O n l i n e . o r g • MAXiMuM perspectives stories from the latest MOMEN- Issue section of the GLEANER • current events TUM series in Eugene, Oregon? Blog provides a chance to • current gleAner issue These items and more can be delve deeper into the topics • FinAnce found in the Current Event’s covered in each month’s print • tip sheet section of the GLEANER Blog. magazine. auMARCGustH 2009 • Gleaner Adventist heAlth: Sacred Work when god Answers the phone he Emergency room was slammed. Am- tbulancesWhen rolled in one after another God and answers the phone patients were piling up at the front desk to check in. At the same time, Erika Rootvik, admitting clerk, was trying to implement a new standardized telephone script. Little did she know, the script would help save someone’s life that night. “I was feeling hurried and impatient as I answered yet another phone call with the standardized, ‘Good evening, Emergency room admitting ... This is Erika. How may I help you?’” says Rootvik. “The woman asked if Dr. Underhill was on duty that evening. When he wasn’t, she replied with obvious disappointment. I asked if she wanted to leave him a message, but she declined,” Rootvik recalls. “Something about this woman’s voice piqued my interest and so when I asked the scripted question, ‘Is there anything else I can do for you?’ there was nothing scripted about it. I was asking with true sincerity.” Her response made time stand still in that small Emergency room at Walla Walla General Hospital, “I just wanted to thank him for being such a good doctor to me. ... You see...” she said, “I won’t be seeing him again, because I am ending my life tonight.” Bryan Aulick Sacred work hen I think about what makes Adventist through them, recognize the sacred work wHealth what it is today, I think of our that our employees do every day.