Health and Fitness : Vinton Skate Center Blood Drive, Thursday, May 30, 2024

Vinton Community and the American Red Cross are hosting an upcoming blood drive.

Please join our lifesaving mission and schedule an appointment today!

Drive Details:
Site: Vinton Skate and Activities Center
Address: 1703 C Ave., Vinton, IA, 52349
Room Name: Activities Center
Date: Thr May 30, 2024
Time: 12:30 PM - 5:30: PM
Blood Program Leader Name: Whitney Joachim
Click here to make an appointment

You + Us = The Perfect Fit! Come to give blood May 20-June 9 for a commemorative Tetris + Red Cross T-shirt, while they last. Together, let's build the blood supply, donation by donation. Who donations help! Kala Breder knows all too well how dire not having blood available can be. In July 2020, hours after the birth of her son by emergency Cesarean section, Breder developed a complication and began bleeding uncontrollably. As doctors fought to save her life, they exhausted the entire blood supply at the hospital as well as all available blood within a 45-mile radius. Ultimately, she was flown to another hospital because there wasn't enough blood locally. She received 58 blood products to save her Life!

The need for blood is constant and only volunteer donors can fulfill that need for patients in our community. Nationwide, someone needs a unit of blood every 2 to 3 seconds and most of us will need blood in our lifetime.

Thank you for supporting the American Red Cross blood program!

Download the Red Cross Blood Donor App on the App Store, Google Play or text BLOODAPP to 90999. Schedule appointments, view your blood type and results of your mini-physical, and track your donations.