20 January 2020 | Days after the closure of the birthing unit at Adventist Health St. Helena on January 11, the hospital has announced that it will also close its inpatient mental health and senior behavioral health units. According to facility’s president, Steven Herber, M.D., the closure decision involves 105 full-time, part-time and per diem […]
From a North American Division news story – 19 January 2020 | Mile High Academy (MHA), local Denver, Colorado, churches, and the community have joined together as they honor the life of one of their students who passed away. Mya Pena was killed after she left school on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020. A candlelight vigil was held […]
A major legal challenge to AdventHealth (formerly Adventist Health System) has been dismissed after a judge threw out a lawsuit by a former AHS employee that claimed the system underfunded its retirement by millions and had breached its duty under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. The Adventist network had argued that it was not […]
News reports from Southern Adventist University, Adventist International Instititute of Advanced Studies, Adventist music, Oakwood University and Voice of Prophecy: According to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, an exhibit of rare Bibles from around the world opened this Wednesday on the campus of Southern Adventist University. The “From Script to Scripture” exhibit contains a Gutenberg […]
15 January 2020 | ADRA Philippines reported that it has completed a first round of disaster response assessments in the area surrounding the Taal Volcano in the Batangas province of the Philippines that erupted Sunday afternoon. “Based on our assessments in the evacuation centers and consultation with the MSWDs (Municipal Social Welfare Departments), the urgent […]
From Juanita Ritland – 14 January 2020 | Richard Martin Ritland passed away peacefully at his home on December 13, 2019, in Olympia, Washington. Richard was born in Grants Pass, Oregon, on July 3, 1925, to Martin and Mae Ritland and grew up in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. After graduating from Portland Union Academy, […]
13 January 2019 | Today, work was suspended at a number of Adventist institutions located close to the Taal Volcano that erupted Sunday evening in the Northern Philippines. The Southern Asia-Pacific Division(SSD) headquarters, the Adventist World Radio-Center for Digital Evangelism (AWR-CDE) office, the Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies (AIIAS) campus, the Adventist University of […]
From ANN – 12 January 2020 | Kari Paulsen, wife of Pastor Jan Paulsen, former president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (GC), passed away in Norway, January 10. Pastor Paulsen was by her side. Current GC President Ted N.C. Wilson said in a post on his Facebook Page, “Please pray during this 10 […]
9 January 2020 | NBC Sports reported that AdventHealth is expanding its race car sponsorship deal with the Chip Ganassi Racing auto racing organization. The expanded deal will now see sponsorship in four Cup Series races in 2020. According to NBC Sports, AdventHealth will feature on driver Kyle Larson’s No. 42 Chevrolet in the February […]
News reports from Larnaca, Cyprus; Generation Youth for Christ (GYC); Geneva, Switzerland; AdventHealth; ADRA Canada and Oakwood University: Guests from the city enjoyed dinner at the Adventist community centre in Larnaca, Cyprus, on Saturday night, 4 January. Among them was the Deputy Mayor of Larnaca, who highly praised student missionaries Melina and Elias Orlando for […]
8 January 2020 | A Portland, Oregon-based behavioral health clinic that is affiliated with Adventist Health has made local news because it is hemorrhaging money. Unity Center Behavioral Health lost $35.3 million in 2019, according to its financial statement which shows that it will likely lose a further $21.4 million this year. The Lund Report […]
7 January 2020 | About 1,000 students, employees and alumni will help out their local community in honor of Southern Adventist University’s Martin Luther King Jr. Service Day scheduled for January 20. The service day is a tradition of the university’s, aimed at helping Chattanooga-area organizations and community members. According to The Chattanoogan.com, this year, […]
