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Phelps Family Medicine Residency Program Receives $10,000 From M&T Bank

(November 3, 2011) Executives of M&T Bank visited Phelps Memorial Hospital Center here recently to present a check for $10,000 in support of the new Family Medicine Residency Program, which will begin training residents in July 2012.

Kenneth M. Mitchell, Vice President, Commercial Healthcare Banking Division, and Justin Blum, Banking Officer, presented the check to Keith F. Safian, President & CEO at Phelps.

“Phelps, along with our partners in the residency program – New York Medical College and Open Door Family Medical Centers – is committed to developing Family Medicine physicians because of the growing need for primary care services in the U.S.,” said Safian. “This generous gift from M&T Bank will help us establish this much needed program.”

Founded in 1856 as Manufacturers and Traders Bank, today the M&T Bank Corporation, one of the 20 largest independent bank holding companies in the U.S., has assets of $68.2 billion with and nearly 14,000 employees and more than 750 branches located in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Washington D.C., Virginia, West Virginia and Delaware.