Health & Fitness
Blood Drive Helps Hospitals Prepare for Winter
New York Blood Center and the Westchester Reform Temple Host Scarsdale Blood Drive
SCARSDALE, NY—On Sunday, October 28th, the Westchester Reform Temple and New York Blood Center will host a blood drive in Scarsdale in order to help patients and hospitals prepare for the cooler months ahead.
The blood drive will run from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Center for Jewish Life Sanctuary at the Westchester Reform Temple (255 Mamaroneck Ave, Scarsdale, NY).
This event will help ensure hospitals and patients have access to the life-saving blood they need as donations typically drop during the winter.
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It takes one hour to donate blood, and a single donation can be used to save multiple lives. Nearly 2,000 donations are needed each day in New York and New Jersey alone. About one in seven hospital admissions requires a blood transfusion, and with a limited shelf life, supplies must be continually replenished.
Those in need include: cancer patients, accident, burn, or trauma victims, newborn babies and their mothers, transplant recipients, surgery patients, chronically transfused patients suffering from sickle cell disease or thalassemia, and many more. Donors with O-negative blood type, or “universal donors,” are especially encouraged to attend, as their blood can be used in emergencies.
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About New York Blood Center: Founded in 1964, New York Blood Center (NYBC) is a nonprofit organization that is one of the largest independent, community-based blood centers in the world. NYBC, along with its partner organizations Community Blood Center of Kansas City, Missouri (CBC), Innovative Blood Resources (IBR), Blood Bank of Delmarva (BBD), and Rhode Island Blood Center (RIBC), collect approximately 4,000 units of blood products each day and serve local communities of more than 45 million people in the Tri-State area (NY, NJ, CT), Mid Atlantic area (PA, DE, MD), the Kansas City metropolitan area, Minnesota, Nebraska, Rhode Island, and Southern New England. NYBC and its partners also provide a wide array of transfusion-related medical services, including Comprehensive Cell Solutions, the National Center for Blood Group Genomics, the National Cord Blood Program, and the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, which — among other milestones — developed the Hepatitis B vaccine and a patented solvent detergent plasma process innovating blood-purification technology worldwide.
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