Article: Adventist employees help those in need in Central America

The medical staff at Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital is used to helping those in need right here in the village.

Recently, some hospital employees got a chance to help people thousands of miles away.

A 19-year-old man injured in a machete fight and a mother who spent two hours carrying her baby up a mountain were among more than 1,700 patients treated by a medical mission team from Adventist Midwest Health that traveled to Central America in January.

Adventist Midwest Health, which includes four suburban Chicago hospitals in Bolingbrook, Glendale Heights, Hinsdale and La Grange, sponsors an international mission trip annually for a team of physicians, employees and guests.

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