More family members visiting badly injured sailors and Marines can now literally stay next door to their loved ones at Naval Medical Center in Balboa Park.
Thanks to generous donations from the Fisher House Foundation and the TriWest Corporation, the 8,000 square foot building, featuring 12 hotel-like suites, is now open on the Medical Center Campus.
It's a home-away-from-home for military families whose active and retired relatives are being treated at the Medical Center. Each of the suites inside the Fisher House is fully furnished, and accessible for the handicapped. There's a community kitchen, living room, dining room and laundry room, where visiting families can meet and get to know each other.
And there is no cost involved for families of the injured service members.
The Fisher House cost about $4 million to build, and it's the second military guesthouse on the Naval Medical Center Campus.
The first Fisher House was built in 1992, and has room for eight families.
