Florence Savings Bank Pledges $400,000 To Campaign

NORTHAMPTON – Florence Savings Bank recently pledged $400,000 to Cooley Dickinson Hospital’s Caring for the Future campaign.

“Florence Savings Bank is proud to be part of the Caring for the Future campaign. Our pledge comes at a time when we recognize the critical need for local, high quality health care services,” says FSB President John Heaps, Jr. “We know a strong, technologically advanced community hospital will benefit us all: bank customers and employees as well as the entire community.”

Florence Savings Bank has generously supported Cooley Dickinson Hospital in the past. In 1998, it pledged $100,000 the Campaign for Cooley Dickinson Hospital. Seven years ago, its gift was precedent-setting. Its recent announcement of $400,000 is its largest one-time gift to any institution.

To date, nearly $4 million of the $8.5 million Caring for the Future Campaign goal has been raised.

Based in Northampton, Mass., Cooley Dickinson Hospital is committed to being a model community hospital providing a comprehensive range of services to Pioneer Valley residents.

Cooley Dickinson’s $50 million building expansion project started in April of 2005. The new four-story, 116,000 square-foot building will expand the hospital’s core services. New building highlights include larger operating rooms, same-day surgery and recovery areas, a centralized laboratory and equipment sterilization room, a wing of 32 single-occupancy patient rooms and an expanded Joint Replacement Center.

The building is expected to be completed by spring of 2007.

For more information about the Caring for the Future campaign, call the CDH Development Office at (413) 582-2255 or visit www.caringforthefuture.org.