Bio-Reference Laboratories Inc, Elmwood Park, NJ, a national clinical testing laboratory, has donated $100,000 to the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund, which was established to help New Jersey citizens rebuild after the devastation caused last month by the storm.

“There are moments when we are confronted with events so overwhelming and destructive that the question is not whether we should help but rather how can we not help,” says Marc Grodman, MD, president and CEO, Bio-Reference Laboratories. “Hurricane Sandy provided one of those moments. Those affected were our neighbors, friends, and coworkers. Experiencing the devastation that was Hurricane Sandy in our own state has hit home with the entire Bio-Reference family.

Our business may be national in scope, but we remain a New Jersey-based company and we could not stand by doing nothing while witnessing the impact to families and small business owners all around us – especially in our immediate neighborhood of Bergen County, where communities still are struggling to recover,” he adds.

Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund Inc. is a private independent charitable organization that is registered with the Charities Registration and Investigation Section of the Division of Consumer Affairs under the Attorney General of the State of New Jersey.

“We employ more than 3,500 people at Bio-Reference Laboratories, most of whom live in New Jersey, many who live in this immediate area.  Every one of us has a family member or friend affected by the storm – while others were impacted directly,” Grodman says. “We hope that, through the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund, we can help to rebuild our communities and help those families most in need who might otherwise fall through the cracks and not receive the kind of assistance they require to rebuild.”

[Source: Bio-Reference Laboratories]