Riverhead - Peconic Bay Medical Center's Auxiliary recently presented a $300,000 check to Andrew Mitchell, Peconic Bay's President and CEO.

The money was raised through a variety of events and activities including the annual Candlelight Ball and the medical center's gift shop.

Auxiliary volunteers are a key part of the PBMC team, giving more than 22,000 hours annually of service to a variety of areas, including greeting patients and visitors at the front desk and in the Emergency Care Center, assisting on the patient care units and performing clerical work. Anyone interested in becoming a hospital volunteer can call Lynne LaGrua, Director of Volunteer Services, at 631-548-6021.

Strategically located in Riverhead - where the twin forks of eastern Long Island meet - PMBC is a non-profit, 214-bed medical facility. Home to a 60-bed Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Peconic Bay Homehealth Services, and the Richard Rubenstein, MD Center for Bariatric Surgery, PBMC is also a regional provider of orthopedics through the Hamptons Orthopdedic & Rehabilitation Institute. A unique partnership with Stony Brook University Hospital - Long Island's only academic medical center - provides trauma specialists in PBMC's Emergency Center as well as highly-trained physicians in its Center for Advanced Medical Imaging (CAMI).