June 25, 2017: A partnership between the Adventist Development and Relief Agency and the global leader in water technology was announced on June 23. The goal of the partnership with technology company Grundfos is to provide clean water access to 1.5 million people in Africa, Asia, Central and South America and the South Pacific. […]
June 23, 2017: Southwestern Adventist University’s nursing department has been awarded a $62,000 grant to fund health and lifestyle education and activities. The Ardmore Institute of Health approved the grant for the Keene, Texas-based institution. The Cleburne Times-Review reported that the nursing department started a Wellness Counts program in 2016 to provide the local […]
June 22, 2017: The closure of Walla Walla General Hospital has caused major dilemmas for several community partners that have relied on the hospital’s services. Walla Walla’s Union-Bulletin reported that partners ranging from those relying on the facility for contracted medical care to nursing students needing work experience, have been adversely affected by the […]
June 20, 2017: Lead Like the Queen, a conference for women organized by an alumna of Australia’s Avondale College, encouraged Adventist women to claim leadership roles. The June 10-12 event was organized over a long weekend to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s birthday. According to a news article on Avondale’s website, the event was the first […]
June 19, 2017: Plans announced in April to transfer the control of Walla Walla General Hospital from Adventist Health to Providence Health & Services have been halted. Adventist Health has announced that the hospital will instead be closed. In addition to the shuttering of the hospital, Adventist Health Home Care Services and Adventist Health Medical […]
June 18, 2017: A June 16 news article on the Loma Linda University Health website profiled recent developments in Adventist discussions on bioethics. The article reported that the five Adventist health systems in the United Stated are banding together in a consortium to better address the area of bioethics. The systems participating in the […]
June 15, 2017: A van driver for an Adventist school in Bangalore, India was booked for allegedly drunk-driving this morning. The driver identified as Lakshmipathi (40) was transporting a van of 30 students attending Seventh-day Adventist High School and Pre-University College. The institution is located in Frazer Town, a suburb of Bangalore. “The alcohol […]
June 14, 2017: A $70 million project to double the size of the emergency department at Florida Hospital Waterman and to build another patient care tower is set to start in July. The Orlando Sentinel reports that the project will add more than 111,000 square feet to the current 269-bed facility. The new four-story patient […]
June 13, 2017: The Sierra Leone office of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency has partnered with US-based aid agency Cross International to provide relief to Ebola survivors in the country. Two containers of goods worth a combined USD 80,000 were directed to Ebola survivors. Sierra Leone’s capitol Freetown’s Concord Times reports that Ebola […]
June 12, 2017: Vandals broke into Bethel Seventh-day Adventist Church in Kansas City, Kansas last Saturday night causing approximately $75,000 of damage. A keyboard was destroyed, pews were upturned and both hymnals and wheelchairs were scattered. In addition, three toilets had been broken and water was running over the floor when the damaged was […]
June 11, 2017: Ben Carson defended huge Trump administration cuts to his own department’s budget in a Senate hearing on June 7. The proposed Trump budget would cut $7.4 billion or almost 15% of last year’s budget from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. According to a report from The Guardian, the HUD […]
June 8, 2017: In a June 5 San Francisco Chronicle opinion piece, three Stanford Law students advocated for an Adventist correctional worker’s Sabbath keeping rights. Christina Neitzey, Kathryn Harris and Mary Huang who represent Teresa Brown as certified law students at the Stanford Law School Religious Liberty Clinic, penned the piece. Brown is an […]
