{"id":24281,"date":"2022-11-11T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T06:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/?p=24281"},"modified":"2023-12-05T10:45:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T18:45:22","slug":"pastega-house-highlighted-in-connecticut-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/news\/pastega-house-highlighted-in-connecticut-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastega House Highlighted in Connecticut Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article\">\n\t<header class=\"header\">\n\t\t<span class=\"type\"><\/span>\t\t<h1>Pastega House Highlighted in Connecticut Newspaper<\/h1>\t\t<time>November 11, 2022<\/time>\n\t<\/header>\n\t<div id=\"block_fe867175be66ccec3d1b62505f1fb016\" class=\"shs-block block-news-article entry-content\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p>The Mario Pastega House received attention from the East Coast this week when a Connecticut newspaper published an <a href=\"https:\/\/themonroesun.com\/generosity-of-monroe-residents-brings-christopher-stead-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> highlighting the services a family received while their son recovered from a stroke at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/themonroesun.com\/mother-of-young-stroke-victim-every-day-we-tell-him-hell-get-better\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> in The Monroe Sun reported that Christopher Stead, 20, of Monroe, Connecticut, was admitted to GSRMC after having a stroke in July. Several of his family members kept vigil in Corvallis while money was raised to transport the college student back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Stead family will forever be \u2018family\u2019 to me personally and to the Pastega House,\u201d said Leslie Armstrong, Pastega House manager. \u201cStan, Sandy and James signify strength as they endured 90 days away from home in order to support and care for their son.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A GoFundMe page raised the money for an air ambulance to transport Snead across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe cried together, laughed together and celebrated together over the course of their stay with us,\u201d said Armstrong. \u201cI cried and I said my final goodbye to Sandy just before she got onto the medical flight with Christopher.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now back in Connecticut, Stead is rehabilitating at the Hospital for Special Care in New Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe unconditional love of this family toward their son is something that I will never forget,\u201d said Armstrong. \u201cI\u2019m so thankful for my time with the Stead Family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<aside>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Coming-Home-CO.jpg\" class=\"attachment-cta size-cta wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Coming-Home-CO.jpg 360w, https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Coming-Home-CO-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Coming-Home-CO-120x100.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/figure>\t\t<\/aside>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mario Pastega House was praised in an East Coast newspaper by a Connecticut family sharing the story of their 20 year-old son&#8217;s recovery from a stroke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":11335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","_shs_workflow_notes":"","_shs_exclude_from_navigation":false,"_shs_promote_article_on_blogs":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"news-topics":[],"news-types":[272],"services":[264],"specialty":[52],"class_list":["post-24281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","news-types-news","services-stroke","specialty-neurology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24281"},{"taxonomy":"news-topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-topics?post=24281"},{"taxonomy":"news-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-types?post=24281"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=24281"},{"taxonomy":"specialty","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/specialty?post=24281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}