Tri-Cities Blood Drive - Thursday August 30 at Southside Regional Medical Center

Southside Regional Medical Center Partners with
American Red Cross to Host Community Blood Drive
 
Petersburg, VA – Southside Regional Medical Center (SRMC) is excited to partner with the American Red Cross to launch the first of what will be quarterly blood drives at SRMC. Blood donations will take place Thursday, August 30, 2018 from 12:00pm until 6:00pm in the SRMC A and B Classrooms. Donors will receive a $5 Amazon gift card* and SRMC goodie bag as a thank you.
Leadership at SRMC are rolling up their sleeves; Steven Castle, COO, John DeSantis, CFO, and Carl Nelson, ACFO, have all signed up to donate. SRMC’s goal for this inaugural blood drive is 50 donors. Nearly half of those slots are already scheduled.
                      
“As a Level III Trauma Center, we see many patients in need of life sustaining blood products; through these individual donations of blood to the American Red Cross, we can have the necessary supply to save lives in our local community,” said Castle.
 
SRMC is the only Level III Trauma Center located between Richmond, Virginia and the North Carolina border. There is a shortage of blood donations and SRMC wants to support the America Red Cross in providing adequate supply to meet the demand.
 
Donors of all blood types are needed, especially those with types O negative, B negative and A negative. According to the Red Cross, type O negative is the universal blood type that can be safely transfused to anyone, and is often used to treat trauma patients.
 
When someone donates blood they typically give 1 unit. 7,395 units of donor blood, equivalent to 586 gallons, were used by SRMC in 2017, including our open heart surgery program which preformed over 30 surgeries. Blood is used for a wide variety of reasons to help save lives including traumas, cancer patients, GI bleeds, and low hemoglobin.
 
The Red Cross has been making a humanitarian impact for more than 130 years, and has been collecting blood for over 70 of those years. We can all be part of something important when we work with the Red Cross to strengthen the blood supply and give back to our community.
 
 
For more information or to make an appointment to donate, call 1-800-RED-CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or sign up online at redcrossblood.org with sponsor code SOUTHSIDE.
 
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