Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center (MVRBC) will hold a blood drive from9 a.m. until noon, onWednesday, September 4, 2019in the Wellness Classroom atOSF HealthCare Holy Family Medical Centerin Monmouth. Volunteer blood donors are invited to support the local blood supply by scheduling an appointment to give blood by visitinghttps://www.bloodcenterimpact.org/donor/schedules/drive_schedule/71521or calling Jadyn Dwyer at (309) 734-3141, ext. 401 (appointments preferred, walk-ins also welcome). Please bring a photo ID for use in donor registration.
All presenting donors will receive a voucher to redeem for a $10 gift card to Amazon.com, Casey’s General Store, Dairy Queen or Domino’s.
Blood donations are often used to help treat patients with cancer, victims of trauma and patients undergoing major surgeries. All persons age 17 and up (or 16, with a signed parental permission form) who weigh at least 110 lbs. and are in general good health meet the basic eligibility requirements for blood donation. For more information on donor eligibility, call the Blood Center at (800) 747-5401 or visitwww.bloodcenter.org/eligibility.
MVRBC is based in Davenport, Iowa, with regional operations in Urbana (Community Blood Services of Illinois) and Springfield (Central Illinois Community Blood Center). The Blood Center is the exclusive provider of blood and blood components to 95 hospitals in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Wisconsin, including 11 of 13 OSF HealthCare facilities. (For information on MVRBC’s service to OSF HealthCare, see:https://newsroom.osfhealthcare.org/blood-provider-expands-service-to-6-additional-osf-hospitals/.)
BLOOD DRIVE: 9 a.m. – noon | Wednesday, September 4
OSF Holy Family Medical Center | Wellness Classroom | 1000 W. Harlem Avenue, Monmouth, IL | 61462
About OSF HealthCare Holy Family Medical Center
伟德betvicror下载OSF医疗圣家庭医学中心是23 -bed acute/intermediate care, critical access hospital located in the rural farming community of Monmouth, IL. OSF Holy Family provides a broad range of acute care and outpatient services including a variety of specialist, emergency, rehabilitation, and diagnostic imaging services. The Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network (ICAHN) also recently recognized the hospital for excellence in quality of care outcomes; Leapfrog Group named OSF HealthCare Holy Family Medical Center a Top Rural Hospitals. For more information about OSF HealthCare Holy Family Medical Center,visitwww.osfholyfamily.org.
About Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center
Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center (MVRBC), based in Davenport, Iowa, serves 95 hospitals in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin, as well as resource sharing partners across the country. The 501(c)(3) not-for-profit blood center was established in 1974 and operates as Central Illinois Community Blood Center (Springfield, Illinois) and Community Blood Services of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana, Illinois). The Blood Center’sservice regionextends from southwestern Wisconsin to St. Louis, Missouri and from Danville, Illinois to Albia, Iowa, an area with a population of more than 4-million residents. For more information, seewww.bloodcenter.organd visit the Blood Center’s social media channels:www.facebook.com/mvrbc,www.twitter.com/willyougive, andhttps://www.instagram.com/willyougive/.