AdventistHealth.org/Portland 3 Adventist Health Portland, an OHSU Health partner, includes a 302-bed medical center with an emergency room, dozens of medical and urgent care clinics, and home care and hospice services. Our many physicians and employees are dedicated to caring for you as a whole person — mind, body and spirit — not just as an injury or illness. We are also part of Adventist Health, a health care network of more than 20 hospitals and countless clinics and services spanning California, Oregon and Hawaii. Guest Editor Editor’s letter More excited than ever You could say nursing is in my DNA. When my family left Romania and came to America when I was a child, my parents started taking care of elderly residents in our home. That’s where I learned how important it is to treat patients the way we would treat our own family. Now, as Adventist Health Portland’s nursing executive, I work every day to make sure that same sense of family comes through every nurse into each moment you share with us. Our mission to live God’s love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope drives our team to value you — and each other — as family. I see that sense of community all over our hospital, clinics and programs. I see it in the life-changing choice one of our nurses made to improve her health and energy, as described on page 6. I see it in how nurses shape almost every aspect of health care, which you can read about on page 8. I see how we are investing in the next generation of nurses through partnerships, education, residencies and advancement and how we are investing in each other through the Employee Assistance Program (page 15). Coming out of the pandemic, nurses are driving innovation, shared decision-making and evidence-based care with renewed energy. Most important, we are making a real difference for you, our patients. I’m more excited than ever about nursing, and I hope the following pages give you a little peek into why. Diana Erdmann, RN, MSN Nursing executive Our mission to live God’s love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope drives our team to value you — and each other — as family.”
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