Friday, January 4, 2008
BRMC Receives Half Million Dollar
Gift from ARG/Hallorans
Bradford, PA - Harry and Kay Halloran, The Halloran Foundation, and American Refining Group presented Bradford Regional Medical Center with an outright gift of $250,000 to support BRMC’s Building the Future Campaign. This gift was matched through the generosity of the estates of two sisters, Dorothy Reed and Berdena Coit. This combined gift provides a $500,000 distinguished naming opportunity to support Upbeat, the rehabilitation facility, located in the Outpatient Services Center.
“We strongly believe in supporting the continued growth of quality health care to the Bradford community. Our employees live and work here, and are recipients of the services provided by BRMC. Additionally, as a local employer, we maintain a close relationship with the hospital to support our Workers’ Compensation, Wellness and other health related programs,” stated Harry Halloran, Jr., CEO of ARG.
ARG has been generous in their support of BRMC since the inception of the Bradford Hospital Foundation. The company’s past gifts include a contribution to Modernization 2005, a project that funded the upgrade of the hospital’s cardiac services unit. ARG employees have contributed to the various memorials which benefit the mission of BRMC, according to Francie Ambuske, Director of the Bradford Hospital Foundation. ARG matches it’s employees contributions.
Since its inception, the Foundation has raised over $14 million. The Bradford Hospital Foundation’s Annual Giving, Planned Giving, and Memorial and Named Giving programs provide a variety of options for supporting BRMC’s efforts to fulfill its mission and vision by maintaining, upgrading, and developing new medical services, and capital improvements.
“ARG has been a very strong sponsor of the BRMC Charity Golf and Sporting Clay Classic for the past eleven years,” noted Ms. Ambuske. This is one of the various special events the Foundation sponsors to benefit BRMC.
In 1989, the Bradford Hospital Foundation was created to support the mission of BRMC: Dedicated to improving the health of our community, and its vision: Committed to providing high quality, cost-effective health care to all persons in the communities we serve within McKean County and surrounding areas.
In 1997, American Refining Group, Inc. purchased the Kendall® / Amalie® refinery located in Bradford, PA, from Witco Corporation. As a result of the sale of the Kendall® and Amalie® brands to a third party, a new name was given to the products produced at the site-Brad Penn® Premium Pennsylvania Grade Lubricants.
American Refining Group’s Bradford Pennsylvania Refinery is the only refinery dedicated solely to processing 100% Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil. In addition to gasoline and fuel oil, the refinery produces a complete line of distillate and naphtha solvents under the Kensol® brand, Kendex® brand lubricant baseoils, waxes, and Penn Grade resins, PennzSuppress® brand dust control agent and a variety of other petroleum specialties. ARG also produces a complete line of Brad Penn® Lubricants for consumer, commercial and industrial applications and is designated as the Master Distributor for Gulf® branded lubricants in an eleven-state region in the northeast. The Company is also a major producer of private label lubricants which are marketed under nationally recognized consumer and commercial brand names and is the largest producer of zinc-free diesel locomotive engine oils east of the Mississippi.
