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Local resident diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia
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Battle Creek Central
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Biomedical Services
As with other Red Cross services, it's all about helping others, one person at a time. As the nation's largest supplier of blood, plasma, and tissue products, the Red Cross saves and enhances the lives of thousands every day.
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Blood Services
The most visible division of Biomedical Services, Blood Services is touching more lives than ever before. We've provided the nation with safe, reliable blood products for generations. And today, we continue setting new standards for safety and quality.
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Tissue Services
The Red Cross provides nearly one fifth of the nation's transplantation tissue. Since 1982, the Red Cross has provided lifesaving and life-enhancing tissue (heart valve, skin, ligament, tendon, bone, major blood vessel, fascia- muscle covering) to more than 600,000 people.
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Plasma Services
A leader in the plasma industry, the Red Cross provides more than one quarter of the nation's plasma products. Red Cross Plasma Services seeks to provide the American people with safe, reliable, cost effective plasma products.
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Blood Services - Biomedical Services
Reasons to Give Blood:
Community Responsibility (PDF File) All About Blood Groups (PDF File)
You may use the sign up links below to e-mail your name, phone, and preferred donation time. We can not guarantee, but will do our best to honor, your appointment time.
Donors must be at least 17 years old, 110 pounds, and in good general health.
Blood Drives Scheduled in August
Blood drive times and locations are subject to change.
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Drive Date |
Start Time |
End Time |
Sign
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Site |
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Mon |
8/4/2008 |
12:00 PM |
5:45 PM |
Sign Up |
Homer / Homer Community House
112 W. Adams St.
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Mon |
8/4/2008 |
4:00 AM |
9:45 PM |
Sign Up |
Battle Creek / Koyo Corporation
300 Fritz Keiper Blvd.
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Wed |
8/6/2008 |
12:00 PM |
5:45 PM |
Sign Up |
Albion / St. Paul's Lutheran Church
100 Luther Blvd. |
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Wed |
8/6/2008 |
11:00 AM |
5:00 PM |
Sign Up |
Bronson / First United Methodist Church
312 E. Chicago St. |
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Thur |
8/7/2008 |
12:00 PM |
5:45 PM |
Sign Up |
Battle Creek / Eagles Lodge #1023
19757 Capital Ave. N.E.
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Sat |
8/9/2008 |
10:15 AM |
4:00 PM |
Sign Up |
Battle Creek / Lakeview Square Mall
5775 Beckley Rd.
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Tues |
8/12/2008 |
12:00 PM |
5:45 PM |
Sign Up |
Tekonsha / Tekonsha 1st Baptist Church
914 N. Main
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Thur |
8/14/2008 |
10:00 AM |
3:45 PM |
Sign Up |
Battle Creek / Kellogg Foundation
1 Michigan AVe.
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Fri |
8/15/2008 |
10:15 AM |
4:00 PM |
Sign Up |
Battle Creek / Union Pump N & S Learning Centers
4600 W. Dickman
Employees Only |
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Mon |
8/18/2008 |
12:00 PM |
5:45 PM |
Sign Up |
Battle Creek / Christ United Methodist Church
65 N. Bedford Rd.
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Mon |
8/25/2008 |
1:00 PM |
5:45 PM |
Sign Up |
Coldwater / The Laurels of Coldwater
90 N. Michigan
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Tues |
8/26/2008 |
9:00 AM |
2:45 PM |
Sign Up |
Battle Creek / TRMI
100 Hill Brady Rd.
Employees Only |
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Thur |
8/28/2008 |
12:00 PM |
5:45 PM |
Sign Up |
Coldwater / Elks Lodge #1023
47 Division
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Fri |
8/29/2008 |
11:00 AM |
4:45 PM |
Sign Up |
Battle Creek / Burnham Brook Center
200 W. Michigan
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Fri |
8/29/2008 |
10:30 AM |
4:15 PM |
Sign Up |
Battle Creek / Duncan Aviation
15745 Airport Road
Employees Only |
Preview Blood Drives in September
Blood donors needed to fight summer shortage
American Red Cross continues appeal for donations
August 5, 2008 - LANSING, MICH. – The Great Lakes Blood Services Region of the American Red Cross is urging eligible blood donors to fight a critical summer blood shortage by making or keeping appointments to donate blood.
The Region, which provides blood products to patients in about 70 Michigan hospitals, has just under a two-day supply of all blood, and extremely low levels of Type O. A three-day supply is considered adequate, with five days considered optimal.
The 65-county Great Lakes Region often calls on adjacent blood regions of the Red Cross when supplies run low. But supplies aren′t any stronger in neighboring regions in Michigan and Ohio as thousands of patients every day depend on blood from volunteer donors for lifesaving care.
The Red Cross is asking eligible blood donors to give blood in the next two weeks. The Red Cross is also calling for individuals, community or religious organizations, and businesses to consider hosting a blood drive this summer or in early to late fall.
Blood donors must be at least 17 years old, weigh at least 110 pounds, be in good general health. Eligible donors are asked to call 1-800-GIVE-LIFE or visit www.redcrossmichigan.org to find a drive.
- Blood shortages are typical during the summer because people–particularly regular
donors–get busy with summer vacations and activities and don′t take time to give blood.
- Conversely, demand for blood can rise with increased roadway and vacation-related
accidents. Someone severely injured in a car-crash may need 40 or more units of blood.
- Trends indicate that blood donations statewide may drop by 10 to 15 percent from
Memorial Day through September. That amounts to 200 to 300 donations a day.
- Michigan′s Red Cross considers a three–day supply safe and adequate for meeting the
needs of ongoing and emergency blood needs, and a five-to-seven day supply optimal for
responding to crisis.
- In past years, supplies of Type O- and Type O+ have dropped to serious levels, with a
day or less of each available for transfusion.
- Shortages of Type O–often called the universal blood type–can be serious.
- Hospitals use Type O–negative blood in most emergency trauma cases when there is not
enough time to determine a patient′s blood type. Type O–positive can be transfused to
most anyone with a positive blood type–or about 8 out 10 people.
- This summer, Michigan′s Red Cross needs to collect about 1,600 blood donations from
volunteer donors each working day to meet the increasing needs of patients in about 120
Michigan hospitals.
- You can help. About 40 percent of the age-eligible population is eligible to donate, and of
those, only a small percent actually do.
- To donate blood, one must be 17 or older, weigh 110 pounds or more and be in general
good health.
- Call 1-800-GIVE LIFE or scroll down for a listing of local blood drives or to make an appointment or more information.
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