Health and Fitness : Keeping the Blood Supply Safe for Patients in Need

Each year, LifeServe Blood Center performs more than one million tests on blood products collected from volunteer blood donors. Each individual blood unit is put through fifteen tests to ensure its safety! These tests are performed in a state-of-the-art laboratory to make sure every blood product is safe to transfuse to a hospital patient.

In order to maintain the highest of quality and safety standards, LifeServe Blood Center relies on healthy, honest and responsible volunteer blood donors to make life-saving blood donations.

Schedule your appointment to safe a life today!

Virginia Gay Hospital and Vinton Community
09/22/2020 (01:45 pm - 05:30 pm)
502 N 9th Ave
Virginia Gay Hospital - Cafeteria
Vinton, IA 52349

Virginia Gay Hospital and Vinton Community
11/24/2020 (01:45 pm - 05:30 pm)
502 N 9th Ave
Virginia Gay Hospital - Cafeteria
Vinton, IA 52349

To schedule your appointment, please click the link above or contact LifeServe Blood Center. If you have eligibility questions, please contact our medical team at nurse@lifeservebloodcenter.org.

In partnership with the state's public health department, LifeServe Blood Center is assisting in the fight against COVID-19 by testing blood donations for COVID-19 antibodies to help understand the spread of the virus and to help identify individuals who may be eligible to provide convalescent plasma for critically ill hospital patients suffering from COVID-19. Click here for more details. This is not a diagnostic test to determine if you have the COVID-19 virus. LifeServe Blood Center is only providing antibody test results. Donors who feel unwell or who are displaying symptoms of any illness are not eligible to donate.

To help ensure the safety of our team members and other blood donors, we are enforcing the following precautionary measures:

• Appointments are required. Donors who do not have appointments will not be able to give blood.
• We are asking that blood donors pre-screen themselves for fever prior to appointments. Only donors with temperatures under 99.5 will be allowed to donate. If your temperature is higher than 99.5, please reschedule here or by calling us at 800.287.4903.
• Blood donors are required to wear a mask for the duration of their appointment. If you do not have a mask, we will provide you one.
• Click here to see a full list of precautions we're taking during the COVID-19 pandemic.