From The Blood Connection
Press release
Piedmont, SC – While blood donations often decline during the busy holiday season, the need never goes away. To make it easier for donors to give blood, The Blood Connection has partnered with Belk at the Asheville Mall for a holiday blood drive. Every blood donor will receive a $10 Belk gift card to help with holiday shopping.
When: Donations can be made between 12 p.m. and 7 p.m., starting today, December 11 through Wednesday, December 23rd. Then, the drive will continue Saturday, December 26 and go through Thursday, December 31.
Where: The Food Court, Asheville Mall, 3 South Tunnel Road, Asheville, NC
How: Donors must be in generally good health, 17 years of age or older and weigh 110 pounds. Sixteen-year-olds can donate with parental permission.
Why: A blood donation is the perfect gift to give this season. Within 24 hours, a blood donation can help save the lives of three people – a patient in a car accident, a patient having open-heart surgery, and a patient with cancer.
About The Blood Connection
Founded in 1979 in Greenville, SC, The Blood Connection (TBC) is the largest independently managed, non-profit community blood center in the region. It recruits donors and collects blood within an 8,390 square mile area of South Carolina, Georgia and North Carolina. In South Carolina, TBC supports Greenville, Spartanburg, Union, Pickens, Oconee, Greenwood, McCormick, Laurens, and Newberry Counties. In Georgia, TBC supports Stephens County.In 2011, The Blood Connection expanded into Western North Carolina and now serves Polk, Buncombe, Transylvania, McDowell, Macon and Henderson Counties.
Licensed and regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, TBC collects blood from donors through bloodmobiles, portable field units, and fixed donation sites. It holds approximately twelve blood drives every day and collects over 120,000 units of blood, platelets and plasma each year to connect volunteer blood donors, hospitals, and patients needing life-saving transfusions. For more information, contact The Blood Connection or visit thebloodconnection.org.
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