Love Matters By Leon Brown
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n April of 2019, Adventist Health sponsored leaders from the Pacific Union to attend a training seminar at their hospital in Kailua, Hawaii.
The impetus for this seminar was a very great honor: Adventist
Health Castle had won the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award,
the highest level of national recognition for performance excellence that a U.S. organization can receive. Castle was the first organization in Hawaii to earn this award, which recognizes performance excellence in the business, health care, education, and nonprofit sectors. For three days we attended meetings, listening as the president and her team painted a picture of how God had led them to this moment in the hospital’s history. I sat in the front row and listened intently. When they finished, I was deeply impressed and amazed at what God was doing at this small hospital on the windward side of the island of Oahu. Let me tell you why I was so impressed. Adventist Health Castle has a philosophy that drives the engine of everything that they do. It is a very simple and profoundly biblical concept: Love matters.
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