Press Release

Blood Drive Dates - New Jersey Blood Services

New Jersey Blood Services would like to announce that it is conducting blood drives in your area which are open to the public.  The following drives are scheduled in the near future:

May 6, 2010
Club H Fitness
110 Sinatra Drive
Hoboken, NJ
3:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

May 13, 2010
High Tech High School
2000 85th Street
North Bergen, NJ
11:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

May 14, 2010
St. Henry's Catholic Church
77 West 28th Street
Bayonne, NJ 
1:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – New Jersey Blood Services (NJBS), a division of the New York Blood Center (NYBC) calls upon the community to please donate blood today.  Blood drive cancellations, coupled with unusually high demands from regional hospitals, have impacted the blood supply.

In particular, there is an on-going need for donors with O-negative blood, who are known as "universal donors" because their blood can be transfused into anyone.  Type O-negative blood is found in just 6 percent of the population, but is used more often by patients with other blood types, especially in emergency rooms and trauma situations.  It is also used in exchange transfusions for newborn babies and pregnant women, and for premature babies in intensive care units.

The need for blood is constant. Hospital use of blood products remains high -- due to surgeries, emergencies and care of cancer patients.  About one in seven people entering a hospital needs blood.

Everyday in the U.S. approximately 39,000 units of blood are required in hospitals and emergency treatment facilities. Nationwide, 60% of the population is eligible to donate blood to meet these needs, yet in New Jersey only 2% actually give. Healthy people of all blood types are encouraged to donate immediately.

To donate blood, please call:

Toll Free:  1-800-933-2566

Visit:  www.nybloodcenter.org

 
Any company, community organization, place of worship, or individual may host a blood drive.  NYBC also offers special community service scholarships for students who organize community blood drives during the winter holiday and summer periods.  Blood donors receive free mini-medical exams on site including information about their temperature, pulse rate, blood pressure and hemoglobin level.  Eligible donors include those people at least age 16 (with parental permission or consent), who weigh a minimum of 110 pounds, are in good health and meet all Food & Drug Administration and NY or NJ State Department of Health donor criteria.  People age 76 and over may donate with a doctor's note.

 

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