Urgent Need for Blood Donations

All Blood Types, Especially Type O and Platelets

OneBlood, the not-for-profit blood center serving Florida, North Carolina and much of the southeastern United States is issuing an urgent appeal to the community for blood donations now and heading into the Memorial Day holiday.

All blood types are needed. Additionally, there is an increased need for O negative and O positive blood and platelet donations.

“In an instant any one of us can find ourselves on the receiving end of a blood transfusion,” according to Susan Forbes, senior vice president of corporate communications and public relations.
Every day patients in local hospitals depend on blood donors to live.”

If you have never donated blood before, now is a great time to start. It only takes a little of your time and you will literally be helping give someone a second chance at life.

To find a OneBlood donor center or Big Red Bus blood drive and to make an appointment visit, oneblood.org. To host a blood drive with the Big Red Bus click here.

OneBlood is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) community asset responsible for providing safe, available and affordable blood to more than 250 hospital partners and their patients throughout Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. OneBlood operates more than 90 donor centers and deploys nearly 250 Big Red Bus bloodmobiles throughout the southeastern United States for blood drives. Generally healthy people age 16 or older who weigh at least 110 pounds can donate blood. To learn more about OneBlood visit www.oneblood.org.