{"id":48197,"date":"2024-10-17T12:20:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T19:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/?p=48197"},"modified":"2025-08-05T11:05:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T18:05:28","slug":"samaritan-expands-reconstructive-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/news\/samaritan-expands-reconstructive-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Samaritan Expands Breast &amp; Surgical Oncology to Include Reconstructive Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article\">\n\t<header class=\"header\">\n\t\t<span class=\"type\"><\/span>\t\t<h1>Samaritan Expands Breast &amp; Surgical Oncology to Include Reconstructive Surgery<\/h1>\t\t<time>October 17, 2024<\/time>\n\t<\/header>\n\t<div id=\"block_bfd2d00ac3eda7155bfd57d1a93f0a45\" 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>Samaritan Health Services has expanded its regional breast and surgical oncology services to again include reconstruction surgery to accommodate the needs of patients in Benton, Lincoln and Linn counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plastic surgeon <a href=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/patients-visitors\/find-a-doctor\/donath-gary-1063589059\/\">Gary Donath, MD,<\/a> recently joined breast surgeon <a href=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/patients-visitors\/find-a-doctor\/shirley-rachel-1174889703\/\">Rachel Shirley, DO, FACS,<\/a> at Corvallis-based Samaritan Breast, Reconstruction &amp; Surgical Oncology. Dr. Donath will initially focus his practice on reconstructive surgery for breast and skin cancer patients as a compliment to the treatments Dr. McConnell offers for melanoma, squamous cell cancer of the trunk and extremities, and sarcomas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDr. Donath is a great addition to the practice not only for his experience and his compassion for patients, but also because his focus on reconstructive surgery will enable a truly team-based approach to treating our patients from surgery to recovery and reconstruction,\u201d said Chris Blakely, associate vice president of surgical specialties for Samaritan Health Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/find-a-location\/samaritan-breast-reconstruction-surgical-oncology\/\">Samaritan Breast, Reconstruction &amp; Surgical Oncology<\/a>, formerly known as Samaritan Breast &amp; Surgical Oncology, moved to a new location in early October to accommodate the growing team. The clinic is located at 996 NW Circle Blvd., Suite 103, in Corvallis, and can be reached by calling 541-768-1252.<\/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\/breast-reconstruction-surgical-oncology-CO.jpg\" class=\"attachment-cta size-cta wp-post-image\" alt=\"Front entry of the Samaritan Breast Reconstruction and Surgical Oncology office in Corvallis, Oregon.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/breast-reconstruction-surgical-oncology-CO.jpg 360w, https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/breast-reconstruction-surgical-oncology-CO-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/breast-reconstruction-surgical-oncology-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>Samaritan Health Services has expanded its regional breast and surgical oncology services to again include reconstruction surgery to accommodate the needs of patients in Benton, Lincoln and Linn counties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":48229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[258,229],"specialty":[101,107,170],"class_list":["post-48197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","news-types-news","services-plastic-reconstructive-surgery","services-cancer","specialty-breast-surgery","specialty-plastic-reconstructive-surgery","specialty-surgical-oncology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48197","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48197"},{"taxonomy":"news-topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-topics?post=48197"},{"taxonomy":"news-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-types?post=48197"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=48197"},{"taxonomy":"specialty","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/specialty?post=48197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}