BY HILLARY HAENESEditorial coordinator, B Well Magazine

Giving the gift of life by donat-ing his blood is one selflessact that Grady Buck has beendoing for nearly 30 years.

Buck, executive vice presi-dent and chief credit officer of ValleyRepublic Bank, started donating backin 1982, when his boss’ wife was sickand needed blood transfusions.

“Another co-worker and I gaveblood and then decided to team upand give blood on a continual basis. Ihave been doing it ever since, eventhough my buddy left town yearsago,” Buck said.

This universal Type O-negativeblood donor is currently part of the19-Gallon Club at Houchin Communi-ty Blood Bank. Buck said he would bewell over 20 gallons by now had henot moved out of town for a few years.

“Donating blood to save lives makesme feel absolutely wonderful ... like Ihave given something back tomankind and have some purposeother than doing something for justme,” Buck said.

He also admits to having a low painthreshold, but said the nurses atHouchin are so good at what they do,that you hardly feel anything. This ispart of the reason why people are hes-itant to donate in the first place,because they are either afraid of nee-dles or think giving blood is going tohurt.

“I think it’s extremely important formore people in this community tobecome consistent blood donors,meaning they can donate every eightweeks. That’s why someone likeGrady Buck is so valuable to the bloodbank,” said Greg Gallion, presidentand CEO of Houchin Community

Blood Bank.According to Gallion, the blood

bank generates about 37,000 units ofred blood cells per year and approxi-mately 7,000 units of platelets. Thereare medical emergencies every daywhere someone’s life is in need ofblood, whether that’s at a local hospi-tal, private cancer and blood diseasetreatment facility, dialysis center orhome health agency. In fact, one outof 10 people who enter a hospital needa blood transfusion.

Buck encourages others to take onehour out of their busy schedules everycouple of months to help save lives.For more information on donating orabout Houchin Community Blood

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COURTESY OF SAN JOAQUIN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL,ADVENTIST HEALTH

Robert J. Beehler, presidentand CEO of San Joaquin Com-munity Hospital, will be join-ing Adventist Health’s newmarket

development team,focusing on hospitalmergers and acquisi-tions. This is astrategically impor-tant area for Adven-tist Health as itimplements a signifi-cant plan for growththroughout the nextfew years. CurrentSan Joaquin boardchairman Scott Reiner will becomeinterim president and CEO.

Under Beehler’s leadership, SanJoaquin hospital has realized substan-tial growth during the past 10 years.He championed the new AIS CancerCenter, and announced plans for asecond location for Quest Imaging, athree-story, 60,000-square-foot imag-

ing and diagnostic facility adjacent tothe new cancer center. Additionally,Beehler was responsible for building anew hospital tower, which opened in2007.

As San Joaquin hospital continues tomeet the needs of the Bakersfieldcommunity, “we are very thankful toBob’s leadership for the past decadeat SJCH,” said Reiner. “His vision forthe hospital to meet community needshas been evident by the vast amountof growth in service lines and pro-grams. We look forward to putting hisskills and talents to work at the corpo-rate level.”

A nurse by training, Reiner is theexecutive vice president and COO forAdventist Health, a position he willretain while providing leadership forSan Joaquin. Reiner, who has a strongclinical background, serves as thechair of the System Quality Council,and will enhance San Joaquin’s focuson clinical quality and effectiveness.

Reiner, who has been at the corpo-rate office since 2007, was previously

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the president and CEO of Glen-dale Adventist Medical Center, a515-bed facility in southern Cali-fornia, where he also served asCOO. In 2002, Glendale Adventistreceived the CAPE Bronze Awardunder Reiner’s leadership. Prior

to joining Adventist Health, Rein-er held several executive positionsat other health care systemsacross the country.

Reiner holds a bachelor’s degreein nursing from Pacific Union Col-lege in Angwin, Calif. and a mas-ter’s degree in health administra-tion from Cal State Northridge. Heand wife Margo have two children:son Rees, and daughter Ali.

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