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Reprinted courtesy of the Corvallis Gazette-Times Sept. 23, 2012 -- This ain’t your father’s Good Sam. In fact, Dad might not even recognize today’s Samaritan Health Services. The Corvallis-based nonprofit health system that grew out of Good Samaritan Hospital now presides over a three-county network with more than 5,000 employees in five hospitals, dozens of clinics and a senior care facility.

December 8, 2011 – Since he’s been a teenager, Patrick Ferrari has coveted food. To him, every day was like Thanksgiving – he’d eat until he was stuffed. By the time he graduated from college, Ferrari, who stands 6’3,” weighed 401 pounds. “I’d love to get big plates of French fries and eat until I could barely move; I just couldn’t stop,” said Ferrari, 26, who lives in Albany and works at a group home for adults with mental health disabilities. “The last time I went to Red Lobster, I ate 120 shrimp.”