Blood Drive: Big Red Bus Comes to Highlands Campus Oct. 29

The OneBlood bloodmobile will be at the Health and Science Education Center (HSEC) on the Highlands Campus, on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. All blood donors will receive a $20 e-gift card and a Halloween donor t-shirt. Also, donors receive a wellness checkup, including blood pressure, temperature, iron count, pulse, and cholesterol screening. ID is required for the blood donation and screening.

Walk-ins are welcome; however, appointments are encouraged. To make an appointment to donate on Oct. 29, please visit: oneblood.org/donate-now. Use sponsor code: 9786.

According to OneBlood, these are the only a few of the many reasons to donate blood:

• Approximately 62% of the population is eligible to donate blood.
• Only 3% of those who are eligible actually donate blood.
• Blood is needed every two seconds.
• Approximately 41,000 units of blood are used each day in the United States.
• Since blood cannot be synthetically made, there is no substitute.