10 August 2020 | Newsweek has named Loma Linda University Medical Center – Murrieta to its 2020 list of Best Maternity Care Hospitals. Fewer than 250 hospitals made the list, which is part of Newsweek’s Best Health Care series. The publication created the list to celebrate excellence in care for mothers, newborns and their families. […]
9 August 2020 | Three Adventist students in Jamaica have been awarded internships with a United Nations office in the country after winning a development competition. Shertonio Byfield, Navaida Green and Petrona Peart – all students at Adventist-owned Northern Caribbean University (NCU) – were part of a team named Reducing Inequalities in Education. They competed […]
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ADRA Lebanon is providing essential emergency supplies to recovery workers and survivors of the massive explosion in Beirut’s port. The huge blast that struck the Lebanese capital city on August 4 killed at least 135 people, wounded more than 5,000 people, and left more than 300,000 people homeless. ADRA teams will tour at least five […]
News reports from the re-election bid of the Jamaican Prime Minister, ADRA UK, Adventist Health and Loma Linda University Health: The Jamaica Observer reported that Andrew Holness, the Prime Minister of Jamaica, will worship at an Adventist church as part of his re-election campaign. Holness is an Adventist, and this Saturday he will worship in […]
5 August 2020 | From APD – Several Adventist schools and churches were damaged in Beirut, Lebanon, after the severe explosion on Tuesday evening, reports the denomination’s Middle East and North Africa unit (MENA). According to the report, two church buildings, Middle East University, two high schools and a learning center for refugee children have […]
Pastor Richard O’Ffill, who was instrumental in the founding of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), passed away at the age of 79 on July 29. O’Ffill was the first director of the Seventh-day Adventist World Services (SAWS), which was renamed ADRA in 1984. Pastor O’Ffill concluded his tenure with ADRA in 1984. During his leadership […]
3 August 2020 | Last year, at the October 2019 Annual Council, a statement on the Biblical View of Unborn Life and Its Implication for Abortion was adopted and voted. At Annual Council,the Adventist Health Ministries Department was tasked with producing a document outlining principles of caring for health professionals and healthcare institutions working with […]
AdventHealth recently hosted Florida governor Ron DeSantis in a roundtable discussion that focused on COVID-19 treatment, improved patient outcomes, recoveries, and the importance of not delaying care. An all-too-common occurrence during the pandemic has been people delaying medical care, many out of a fear of contracting the coronavirus in a hospital. From AdventHealth/ANN – 2 […]
30 July 2020 | The Los Angeles Times reported on July 19 that military medical personnel had been sent to a number of California hospitals, including Adventist Health Lodi and Adventist Health-managed Dameron Hospital in the Stockton area. The hospitals were experiencing severe personnel shortages as the state suffers a high coronavirus infection rate. California […]
News reports from Adventist Health Castle in Hawaii, ADRA Romania, San Fernando Valley Academy, Washington, D.C.’s WGTS-FM and Loma Linda University Health: According to KHON2, Adventist Health Castle has been ranked the #1 hospital in the state of Hawaii and 25th in the United States by The Lown Institute Hospital Index. “At a time when […]
One million signatures have been collected for the Every Child. Everywhere. In School campaign run by ADRA and the Adventist Church. Grassroots efforts for the education campaign kicked off in October 2019 with the Adventist Church and ADRA urging support for the nearly 300 million children, adolescents and youth globally—or one in every five—who are out […]
