Denise Pace-Sanders
Gladstone, NJ – March 4, 2010 – Got Blood? That is the question that employees of Peapack-Gladstone Bank were asked on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 when the Bank held the first of two yearly blood drives. This semi-annual Bank effort has proven successful year after year, and the first drive of 2010 was no exception.
“The demand for blood is constant,” explained Peapack-Gladstone Bank Director of Human Resources and Blood Drive Chairperson, Bridget Walsh. “Our communities face severe blood shortages at times and with over 300 employees at the Bank, we have the means to help.”
The blood drive was administered by New Jersey Blood Services, a division of the New York Blood Center, the nation’s largest independent blood collection and distribution organization. New Jersey Blood Services aims to distribute 90,000 pints of blood annually for patients in 60 New Jersey Hospitals. With one out of every ten hospitalized patients requiring blood therapy it is more important than ever to collect donations.
Peapack-Gladstone Bank has a long tradition of volunteering time, effort and dollars to support the community-based organizations in which it does business. Employees consider “giving the gift of life” through blood donation, just another way to continue these efforts. Over the past five years Peapack-Gladstone Bank employees have helped New Jersey Blood Services collect almost 700 pints of blood. Wednesday’s blood drive added another 51 pints, helping the American Red Cross with its mission to maintain a safe and stable blood supply.
About Peapack-Gladstone Bank
Established in 1921, Peapack-Gladstone Bank is a $1.51 billion asset, wholly owned community bank that offers a full range of quality banking products and services to businesses and residents of New Jersey, through 24 full-service branches, an online branch and a trust division. In addition to its personal and business banking product line, Peapack-Gladstone Bank offers consumer and commercial lending products and services like auto and home equity loans and lines of credit, residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, term loans, lines of credit and construction loans. For additional information about Peapack-Gladstone Bank or to open an account online, visit www.pgbank.com or call 908-234-0700. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender.
