Adventist Health Ukiah Valley Medical Center Helps Avert COVID Vaccine Crisis
Quick action by the Care team at Adventist Health Ukiah Valley Medical Center helped avert a COVID vaccine crisis when a freezer failed. At 11:35 on Monday morning, January 4, senior staff at Adventist Health Ukiah Valley Medical Center in Mendocino County were holding their first 2021 executive meeting when the hospital pharmacist interrupted: The compressor on a freezer storing 830 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine had stopped working hours earlier, and the alarm meant to guard against such failure had failed. The doses were quickly thawing. The story of how the staff worked together to make sure that not one dose was lost is truly amazing! Their hard work was much appreciated by their local community, and the story of their initiative has been told and retold in the public media and in Adventist media as well. We are so grateful for the work and ministry of Adventist Health, and of all the Adventist healthcare professionals who are serving so courageously at during this time. We add our voices of appreciation to those who have recognized and expressed gratitude for the Adventist Health team in Ukiah.
LA Times Article
Martin Luther King Jr: A Conversation with Pastor Virgil Childs
The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Jan. 18, 2021, is the 26th anniversary of the day of service that celebrates the civil rights leader’s life and legacy. Observed each year on the third Monday in January as “a day on, not a day off,” MLK Day is the only federal holiday designated as a national day of service to encourage all Americans to volunteer to improve their communities. We recently had the opportunity to speak with our Director of African American Ministries, Pastor Virgil Childs, about the significance of next Monday’s holiday. Learn more in this week’s episode! Click here to learn more about Martin Luther King Jr.
January 2021 Recorder
The January Recorder is in your homes and is available online. We hope you’ll enjoy another year of the stories, news, and inspiration the Recorder brings, along the same three great themes we’ve been exploring: Love. Serve. and Lead. January’s Recorder is all about Love.
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“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”
– 2 Corinthians 5:17
