Blessed be the waters at Glendale Adventist Medical Center

Mark Reel and Evelyn Sullivan point out features of the "Living Waters" waterfall at its dedication ceremony at Glendale Adventist Medical Center. Reel and Sullivan work for Abbott Construction in Arcadia, the company that oversaw the construction of the waterfall in the lobby of the West Tower of the hospital.

By Mark Kellam

March 14, 2013 12 AM PT

A new water feature at Glendale Adventist Medical Center was blessed by Archbishop Hovan DerDerian of the Western Diocese of the Armenian Church of North America on Thursday.

Most of the funding for the new water feature came from J.R. Abbott Construction, which built the hospital’s west tower, completed in 2007.

PHOTOS: ‘Living Waters’ waterfall dedication at Glendale Adventist

The feature, called “Living Waters,” creates a calming, comforting and healing environment and is designed to help patients and visitors during stressful times, according to hospital officials.

A plaque on the water feature dedicates it to Val Devitt, who was construction manager on the west tower project. The tower was his final project before he retired. He passed away last year.

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Mark Kellam

Mark Kellam was city editor of the Glendale News-Press and Burbank Leader. He joined Times Community News in July 2011 as the business-politics reporter and was promoted to city editor in January 2013. Previously, he was an editor at the Los Angeles Daily News and managing editor at Champion Newspapers in Chino, Calif. Prior to that, he was an editor at Amos Suburban Newspapers in Dayton, Ohio, for several years. Kellam holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Indiana University.