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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 July
Blood drive times and locations are subject to change.
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Drive Date |
Start Time |
End Time |
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Site |
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Thur |
7/3/2008 |
12:00 PM |
5:45 PM |
Sign Up |
Battle Creek / Holiday Inn
12812 Harper Village Drive
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Fri |
7/11/2008 |
11:00 AM |
4:45 PM |
Sign Up |
Battle Creek / Calvary Baptist Church
1625 Capital Ave. N.E.
In Honor of LaVern Brann |
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Fri |
7/11/2008 |
12:00 PM |
5:45 PM |
Sign Up |
Marshall / Marshall United Methodist Church
14711 Old US 27 N. |
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Fri |
7/18/2008 |
12:00 PM |
5:45 PM |
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Marshall / B.E. Henry Building
615 S. Marshall St.
In Honor of Elaine Furu-Baker |
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Sat |
7/19/2008 |
11:00 AM |
4:45 PM |
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Coldwater / Northview Christian Church
539 N. Union City Rd.
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Mon |
7/21/2008 |
12:00 PM |
5:45 PM |
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Coldwater / Branch Area Career Center
366 Morse
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Wed |
7/23/2008 |
12:00 PM |
5:45 PM |
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Albion / Albion VFW Post 3672
11387 29 Mile Rd.
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Thur |
7/24/2008 |
10:30 AM |
4:15 PM |
Sign Up |
Battle Creek / Battle Creek Toyota
215 Hill Brady Rd.
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Fri |
7/25/2008 |
11:00 AM |
4:45 PM |
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Union City / Union City United Methodist Church
200 Ellen St.
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Fri |
7/25/2008 |
8:00 AM |
12:45 PM |
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Battle Creek / Hart Dole Inouye Federal Center
72 N. Washington
Employees Only |
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Tues |
7/29/2008 |
12:00 AM |
5:45 PM |
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Bronson / St. Mary's School
204 Albers Rd.
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Wed |
7/30/2008 |
11:00 AM |
4:45 PM |
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Coldwater / Infinisource Inc.
15 E. Washington
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Preview Blood Drives in August
TALKING POINTS
SUMMER BLOOD NEEDS
In June, the American Red Cross in Michigan has seen blood collections fall 1,600 pints short. Much of this shortfall occurred in the aftermath of the sever thunderstorms and high winds that ripped through the state. The storms caused power outages that impacted key blood drives.
Summer can be a difficult time to collect blood, as regular donors become busy with vacations, travel and other activities. Collections can fall by 10 to 15 percent from Memorial Day through September.
The need for blood never stops. The Red Cross must collect enough blood every day to meet the needs of accident victims, cancer patients, those having surgery, and many others.
We urge you to donate and to ask your co-workers, friends and family members who are eligible to please give blood. Help us communicate this important message that blood donors are needed. Together, we can help ensure a safe and available blood supply in our community.
Summer blood drives that may be of special interest to donors include a blood drive In Honor of LaVern Brann on 07/11/08 in Battle Creek, a blood drive In Honor of Elaine Furu-Baker on 07/18/08 in Marshall, and the Church Challenge blood drive on 08/29/08 in Battle Creek. For further information on these blood drives and others that may fit perfectly into your summer schedule see the Blood Drive Schedule in the Blood Services section of our website.
Thank you for your continued support of the American Red Cross. We could not successfully provide life saving blood products without you.
- 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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