Virginia Garcia’s 3rd Annual ¡Prospera! is set for Saturday, September 15. Save the date on your calendar and join us at the Tiger Woods Center on the Nike World Campus. 

This year, we will be celebrating the grand opening of the Beaverton Wellness Center. The evening will feature unique experiences, an amazing live auction and a dinner experience from around the world.

Tickets are available now.

Cornelius Nurse Listens to His “Gut,” Saves Patient

Cornelius Registered Nurse Guillermo Ayala Valencia is a pretty quiet guy, so when a patient he’d never seen before gave him a big hug and broke down into tears, he simply said, “It’s a funny way to meet someone for the first time.”

Guillermo only knew the woman’s voice. A few weeks before, she was enroute to Cornelius Wellness Center and called in complaining of a severe headache and vomiting. Guillermo took the call.

“It was difficult because her presentation — headache and vomiting — could be anything,” he said. But something kept nagging at him. “I had a gut feeling something wasn’t right,” he said.

He listened. The woman, in her 20s, was in severe pain and her headache was getting worse after starting over night.

“There was something in her voice,” he said. She told him she was driving 20 miles to VG instead of a closer clinic because she trusted Dr. Lyn Jacobs, but Guillermo told her to turn around and go to an emergency room.

“I was thinking we have really great doctors here, and we will treat the symptoms, but I think there is something else that is causing this presentation,” Guillermo said.

He was right. The woman made it to an emergency room and collapsed to the floor. She was later diagnosed with a benign brain tumor, which doctors have since removed .

6th Annual

Grape Adventure

Sells Out

Virginia Garcia will be co-hosting it's 6th annual Grape Adventure on Saturday, June 30, with REX HILL but this year they are switching it up a bit. The event will kick off as the sun begins to sink behind the hills...covering the REX HILL garden in a nice, cool shade.

The idea of sipping wine in the shaded hills of wine country obviously appealed to ticket buyers because the event sold out very quickly.

But while the tickets to the event are sold out, your opportunity to participate is not gone.

If you are still hoping to find a seat at the table, you can contact the Foundation and be put on a waiting list. We will contact you if tickets become available.

The Foundation is also hosting a raffle that evening for a weekend at the Allison Inn & Spa. This package boasts two nights at the beautiful Inn, breakfast each morning, a dinner at the critically-acclaimed Jory Restaurant and a couples massage at the Allison Spa. Raffle tickets are only $100 each and there are only 60 available.

To be put on the waiting list, buy a few raffle tickets, or get more information, click the button below to contact the Foundation.