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VA Portland Health Care System celebrates 8th Anniversary of its Fisher House

PRESS RELEASE

May 6, 2024

Portland , OR — PORTLAND, Ore.–The VA Portland Health Care System is scheduled to celebrate the 8th Anniversary of their Fisher House on May 8, 2024. The facility is located at their Vancouver campus in SW Washington, 1601 E Fourth Plain Blvd.

Members of the media are invited to attend the event, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Opened for guests on March 23, 2016, the VA Portland Fisher House is part of an ever-expanding network of 97 VA Fisher House locations throughout various military installations and VA medical centers across the nation, with two more under construction.

The Fisher House lodging program is unique because it allows the family and a support network to be within close proximity to Veterans that are in need of critical medical care, which has a positive impact on the overall healing process, according to VA Portland Fisher House Program Manager, James Dorce.

“The VA Portland Fisher House provides a home away from home for families of patients receiving medical care,” Dorce says. “We allow families to be close to their loved one during a medical crisis and to focus on what’s important—the healing process.”.

Overall, the program has saved military and Veterans’ families an estimated $610 million in out-of-pocket costs for lodging and transportation, according to Veterans Administration statistics.

The Fisher House Foundation builds and furnishes residential properties and generously donates the house to the VA as a gift. The VA operates and maintains the house. Fisher House Foundation also manages a grant program that supports other charities and scholarship funds for military children, spouses, and children of fallen and disabled Veterans.

To find out more about the history of the Fisher House, visit https://www.fisherhouse.org/about/our-history/. To learn more about the Fisher House Foundation, go to https://www.fisherhouse.org/

To RSVP for the event, or for any media inquiries, please contact the point of contact listed below.

Media contacts

Nick Choy, Public Affairs Specialist

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Sara Hart, Executive Assistant to the Chief Medical Officer, VISN 20 Network

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