I had the privilege of taking a tour of CNN’s headquarters this week. The
Cable News Network is located across the street from the Georgia Dome, just minutes away from the Adventist Health Care exhibit booth.
By the time my 55 minute guided walking tour came to an end, I had developed a friendship with Julie, the tour guide. She had patiently answered many of my questions regarding the global news organization. I was thrilled to have the opportunity to watch some of the best newscasters behind the anchor desk and even more intrigued by the process CNN used to gather and analysis their stories.
As we headed down the last flight of stairs in the enormous building, Julie asked me where I was from and what brought me to Atlanta. As I began telling her of my involvement at the General Conference this week she exclaimed, “Oh, I was born at an Adventist hospital in Maryland.” “I had no idea that there were other Adventist hospitals in the country.”
I just happened to have had one of the pocket sized Z-cards with me like the ones we’ve been distributing at our booth this week and handed it to her. It gave me the perfect chance to explain that we represent more than 70 Seventh-day Adventist hospitals, as well as hundreds of urgent-care centers, home-health agencies, long-term care facilities, and hospices throughout the United States. She was shocked to hear that we were so large. I told her that each hospital is unique in meeting community needs yet we are all united in one mission – extending the healing ministry of Jesus Christ.
Julie is a journalism graduate who has a passion for food, travel and skiing. She hopes to make it to Portland next year and ski Mt. Hood. It will be her first time in the Northwest. I told her that she’ll see the Adventist Health Medical Group Clinic in the town of Welches at the base of Mt. Hood on the way to the slopes. She asked me for tips on good restaurants in Portland. I shared a few and concluded by telling her that if she wanted a fabulous meal made by Oregon’s 2009 award winning chef she should check out Adventist Medical Center’s Garden Café and taste the food of Chef Iverson!
It was a newsworthy day at CNN. We shared the mission of Adventist Health with the world leader in news!
Judy Leach writes this blog from the Adventist Healthcare booth at the Georgia World Congress Center. She is the marketing and communication director for Adventist Health in Portland, Oregon
Awesome, Judy!
Great blog Judy. Julie was born either at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, one of the top birth centers in the D.C. area, or Washington Adventist Hospital, which is better known as one of the best cardiac care centers in the region. The team from Adventist HealthCare has really enjoyed getting to know the other health systems and the response from people stopping by the booth has been great. It’s wonderful to see the four systems working together like this.
Yahoo, Judy! Thanks for representing us so well.
I currently work as a loan counselor for a mortgage servicing company. Yesterday I had a call from a mortgagor who said she is looking for more work to pay her mortgage and other bills. She is working part time at a hospital in the Los Angeles area. I told her to check out a couple of hospitals but since I couldn’t say the names I thought I would at least describe their locations also that they’re connected with the same company. Immediately the lady said “Oh! Adventist Health. I know of them!”. I advised her that there are some RN positions there she could look into.
Even though I don’t work for Adventist Health anymore and hopefully one day will be able to return, I am still impressed by God to share the news and awesome possibilities of our hospitals.
Very informative post.Really looking forward to read more. Keep writing.
Excellently written article, if only all bloggers offered the same level of content as you, the internet would be a much better place. Please keep it up!