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Program overviewThe Mario Pastega House, on the campus of Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center (view map) in Corvallis, is a comfortable “home away from home” for out-of-area patients and families traveling to Corvallis for specialized medical care. The house opened in the summer of 2004 after the Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation completed a successful fund drive to build the facility and establish an endowment to help support its ongoing operation. Everything about the Mario Pastega House says “welcome.” Its location is convenient and beautiful, situated on two scenic acres at the base of a rolling hill right on the hospital campus. Inside the one-story, 6,500-square-foot home are 12 guest suites carefully designed and professionally decorated to offer comfort and convenience for patients and their families. All units are ADA accessible, and two have wheelchair accessible showers.
Additional amenities include a chapel, outdoor patio and garden areas, children’s playroom, central kitchen and dining area, living/recreation areas and on-site laundry facilities. Outside are three RV parking spaces with full hookups. To offer further hospitality, the house is staffed seven days a week. The suggested nightly fee is $20, but no one is turned away for lack of funds. All that’s required for a patient to use the facility is a home address 30 miles or more away and a referral from a medical provider or hospital staff member. Realizing a dreamThe Mario Pastega House was the happy result of local philanthropy meeting growing need. In this particular scenario, Mario Pastega, a longtime Corvallis businessman and hospital foundation trustee, believed his community needed a place of comfortable respite for families traveling to meet medical needs. Pastega had experienced just such a need during previous travel to California to visit his sister who was undergoing heart surgery. At the same time, Samaritan Health Services was experiencing a steady increase in the number of out-of-area patients coming to its Corvallis hospital campus for the specialty care offered there. The number of patients coming from outside Albany and Corvallis was growing by more than 20 percent a year. Specifically, people were traveling to Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center for radiation therapy at the hospital’s Samaritan Regional Cancer Center or for advanced cardiac procedures at the hospital’s Ralph Hull Regional Heart Center. Generosity merged with need, and a dream became reality. Pastega and his wife, Alma, gifted the Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation with $350,000 to begin construction of a guest house. In addition, he agreed to lead a fund drive to raise additional money to build the house and to create a $1.5 million endowment to fund the ongoing operation and maintenance of the house. Continuing the legacyIndividuals and businesses throughout the region, from the mid valley to the coast, have been generous in their support of the Mario Pastega House. However, funds are still needed to strengthen the endowment for the house’s continuing operation. The Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation, which is managing the fund-raising effort, offers multiple opportunities for potential donors. For example, donors may purchase engraved pavers to grace the entrance, patio, gazebo and walkways of the guest house. Donations range from $100 for a 4 x 8-inch paver to $1,000 for a 12 x 12-inch paver. Friends of the guest house also may support a night’s stay by donating the $20 suggested nightly fee that some guests may not be able to afford. All gifts are tax-deductible and may be paid as a one-time gift or in installments. Please contact the Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation, (541) 768-4256, for more information. |
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