Dr. Herbert Harder first walked onto the Glendale campus in 1948 and, 40 years later, served as its chief of staff. But Monday’s visit to the hospital was among his more memorable: He got his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
At just over 100 years old (and quick to show off his recently renewed driver’s license), Dr. Harder returned to the hospital where he began as a lab tech while still in medical school, where all four of his children were born and where he worked as a pathologist his entire career. Her served as chief of staff in 1988-89.
“I didn’t feel a thing,” the spry centenarian exclaimed, patting the shoulder in which a nurse administered the vaccine.
A lot has changed since he joined the Glendale Sanitarium on the “outskirts” of Glendale.
“There were six parking spaces out front and maybe 20 for doctors out back,” he recalled. Today, Adventist Health Glendale is still serving the community that has grown up around its campus and is proud of Dr. Harder’s contributions to its history of healing.