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WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2000, Feb. 8, 2000 – Two more Fisher Houses in the United States and the first one in Germany are scheduled to open by spring 2001 to provide free lodging for out-of-town families visiting family members being treated at military medical centers.
Fisher House spokesman Jim Weiskopf said the 27th comfort house in the Fisher House network is scheduled to open at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, this fall. It will be the third house at Lackland and will accommodate out-of-town families of pediatric patients at Wilford Hall Medical Center, the Air Force's premier medical facility. "Fisher House III at Lackland will be a professionally furnished and decorated one-story handicapped-accessible home with 10 living suites," Weiskopf noted. "It will have a common kitchen, laundry facilities, spacious dining room. It will also have an inviting living room, complete with library and toys for children, two activity rooms and an administrative office." A second house is planned for Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii next year. The first Fisher House built on foreign soil is scheduled to open at the Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, by the spring of 2001, Weiskopf said. The first two Fisher Houses at Lackland were built in 1992 and 1994. The third home will be built on the fourth corner of a rectangular block where the other two Fisher Houses and the Admiral Boorda Center for Children with Special Needs are located. "Prior to his death in June 1999, Fisher House founder Zachary Fisher asked trustees of the Fisher House Foundation to consider building a third house at Lackland to support pediatric patients at Wilford Hall," Weiskopf said. Foundation trustees honored his request and added the houses in Hawaii and Germany. The foundation is the nonprofit organization established to carry on Fisher's legacy, he said. Weiskopf said nearly 40,000 families of patients receiving care at major military and Veterans Affairs medical centers have stayed at Fisher Houses since the first comfort home opened in 1990. "They saved nearly $30 million over the cost of commercial lodging," he noted. "More importantly, these homes have enabled families to remain together in the midst of a medical crisis, free from financial concerns and able to support a loved on during the healing process." He said the average stay at a Fisher House is 12 days. However, families have stayed from three to 50 days. More information about Fisher Houses can be found on the Internet at www.fisherhouse.org. Fisher House Directory
California
David Grant USAF Medical Center
100 Bodin Circle
Travis AFB, CA 94535
Phone: (707) 423-7551
Fax: (707) 423-7552
Manager: Kim Briand
E-mail address: TravisFisherHouse@aol.com
Naval Medical Center, San Diego
Building 46
San Diego, CA 94535
Phone: (619) 532-9055
Fax: (619) 532-5216
Manager: David Esposito
E-mail address: davidesr@juno.com
Colorado
Denver VA Medical Center
1055 Clermont St.
Denver, CO 80220-3873
Phone: (303) 364-4616
Fax: (303) 393-4679
Manager: Jan Chasteen
E-mail address: DenverVAFH@aol.com
District of Columbia
Walter Reed Army Medical Center (2 Houses)
6825 Georgia Ave., N.W.
Washington DC, 20307-5001
Phone: (301) 295-7374
Fax: (301) 295-8012
Manager: Vivian Wilson
E-mail address: WRFisher2A@aol.com
Web site: www.wramc.amedd.army.mil/fisher/
Florida
West Palm Beach VA Medical Center
7305 North Military Trail, Route 122
West Palm Beach, FL 33410-6400
Phone: (561) 882-7180
Fax: (561) 882-6565
Manager: Teresa del Rio
E-mail address: delrio.teresa_a@west-palm.va.gov
Georgia
Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center
Fisher House Road, Building 280
Fort Gordon, GA 30905-5650
Phone: (706) 787-7100 Fax: (706) 787-5106
Manager: Francisco Cruz
E-mail address: FHEAMC@aol.com
Web site: www.ddeamc.amedd.army.mil/Visitor/FISHER.HTM
Hawaii
Tripler Army Medical Center
315 Krukowski Road
Honolulu, HI 96819
Phone: (808) 433-1291
Fax: (808) 433-3619
Manager: Kathy Gregory
E-mail address: FHTAMC@aol.com
Maryland
Malcolm Grow Medical Center
1076 West Perimeter Road
Andrews AFB, MD 20762
Phone: (301) 981-1243
Fax: (301) 981-7629
Manager: Janet Grampp
E-mail address: FHAndrews@aol.com
National Naval Medical Center (2 Houses)
24 Stokes Road
Bethesda, MD 20814-5002
Phone: (301) 295-5334
Fax: (301) 295-5632
Manager: Albert Harrison
Director: Karen Stansbury
E-mail address: KarStan@erols.com
Minnesota
Minneapolis VA Medical Center
One Veterans Drive
Minneapolis, MN 55417
Phone: (612) 725-1965
Fax: (612) 970-5864
Managers: Maggie Swenson, Jerry Hanson, Cathy Larson and Janice
Pepperdine
E-mail address: Gerald_L.Hanson@Minneapolis.va.gov
Mississippi
Keesler Medical Center
509 Fisher St.
Keesler AFB, MS 39534-2599
Phone: (228) 377-8264
Fax (228) 377-7691
Manager: Larry Vetter
E-mail address: FisherHouse@keesler.af.mil
New York
Stratton VA Medical Center
113 Holland Ave.
Albany, NY 12208
Phone: (518) 462-3311, ext. 2800
Fax (518) 462-3596
Director: JoAnne Saulsbery
E-mail address: FisherNY@aol.com
North Carolina
Womack Army Medical Center
12 Bassett St.
Fort Bragg, NC 28307-5000
Phone: (910) 432-1486
Fax: (910) 432-3825
Manager: Paula Gallero
E-mail address: FHWAMC@aol.com
Ohio
U.S. Air Force Medical Center (2 Houses)
415 Schlatter Drive
Wright-Patterson AFB, 45433-1144
Phone: (937) 257-0855
Fax: (937) 656-2150
Manager: Julie Quinn
Assistant Manager: Pat Walters
E-mail address: Julie.Quinn@WPAFB.AF.MIL
Texas
Brooke Army Medical Center (2 Houses)
Building 3623, George C. Beach Road
Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234-6200
Phone: (210) 225-4855, ext. 101
Fax: (210) 270-2560
Manager: Inge Godfrey
E-mail address: FHBAMC@aol.com
Darnall Army Community Hospital
36000 Darnall Loop
Fort Hood, TX 76544-4752
Phone: (254) 286-7927
Fax: (254) 286-7929
Manager: Issac Howard
E-mail address: FHHood@aol.com
Web site: www.hood-meddac.army.mil/Fisher/FISHER_home_page.htm
Wilford Hall Medical Center (2 Houses)
2580 Luke Blvd., Building 3810
Lackland AFB, TX 78236
Phone: (210) 292-3000
Fax: (210) 292-3031
Manager: Earl Falk
E-mail address: FisherH@connecti.com
William Beaumont Army Medical Center
5005 North Piedras St.
El Paso, TX 79920-5001
Phone: (915)569-1860
Fax: (915) 569-1862
Manager: Harry Hicks
E-mail address: FHWBAMC@aol.com
Virginia
Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth I (Apartments)
313 Green St.
Portsmouth, VA 23704
Phone: (757) 399-5461
Manager: Sarah Leonard
E-mail address: SARLEON@aol.com
Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth II (On-Base)
853 Williamson Drive, Building 287
Portsmouth, VA 23708
Phone:(757) 953-6889
Fax: (757) 953-7174
Manager: Loretta Loveless
E-mail address: FishrHouse@msn.com
Washington
Madigan Army Medical Center
9999 Wilson Ave.
Fort Lewis, WA 98433
Phone: (253) 964-9283 Fax: (253) 968-3619
Manager: Donna Turner
E-mail address: FHMAMC@aol.com
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