Blood Services

Blood Services:

For more than 50 years, the American Red Cross has been an innovator and a leader in transfusion medicine and research. The American Red Cross saves and enhances thousands of lives every day as the nation's largest supplier of blood, plasma and tissue products. Through voluntary donations, the American Red Cross supplies almost half of the nation's blood and 20 percent of tissue for transplantation. Our national research program makes significant contributions to biomedical science, blood safety, plasma-derived therapeutics and transfusion technology. American Red Cross Biomedical Services is a leader in the health care community and has embraced technological innovation and high-quality business practices to better meet the Red Cross mission of saving and enhancing lives. The safety and availability of our blood, plasma and tissue products is our highest priority.

Red Cross Urges Year Round Blood Donations:

Do you know that about 20% of the blood supply is donated by high school and college students? Therefore it is often difficult to collect enough blood to meet the needs of patients during the summer months because schools are out and families on vacation.
Please consider donating now!

Every two seconds, someone in America needs blood. The Red Cross must collect blood donations each and every day to meet the needs of accident victims, cancer patients and children with blood disorders, and the organization works to accomplish this through its Blood Services regions. The American Red Cross collects more than 6 million units a year from volunteer donors, and provides almost half of the nation's blood supply to 3,000 hospitals through its national network of Blood Services regions.

More Information About Donating Blood:

For more information or to donate blood, call 1-800-GIVE-LIFE or visit www.givelife.org.
To find a blood drive near you visit the Calendar of Events or please call the chapter office.
Click Here to visit the Great Lakes Blood Services Region's Website.
View the current LIFELines Newsletter

Want to Volunteer at a blood drive?

The Chapter Office provides volunteers to assist at blood drives. The positions that are available are:
1 . Unload the truck and setup the room prior to the blood drive.
2 . Registration/Greeter
3 . Canteen/Observer
4 . Tear down and reload the truck at the end of the blood drive.
For position descriptions and duties please see below. To volunteer or to speak to the
Blood Services Coordinator call Edward Hartline on extension #18.

Volunteer Services Registration

Volunteer Services--Canteen Duties

Volunteer Services---Canteen Position Description

Volunteer Services--Mobile Unit Reload and Tear Down

Blood Services--Mobile Unit Unload and Room Setup

Blood Services--Registration Duties