ABOUT THE BLOOD DRIVE!
Join us for free food and prizes at the Apple Blossom Mall, next to JC Penney, between 11am and 7pm. Everyone who registers to donate blood will be entered to win hourly and grand prizes, including a $500 Visa Gift Card! There will be free food and beverages all day. All donations stay local here in our communities, and are not shipped off somewhere else!
Virginia Blood Services is the exclusive blood provider of Valley Health, in addition to UVA Medical Center and Rockingham Memorial Hospital. Clear Channel Winchester is proud to partner with this great organization on this year's Winchester blood drive!
- It takes 400 blood donations every day to meet the needs of patients in area hospitals.
- This time of year, blood donations are down due to travel over spring break, as well as inclement weather.
- Trauma happens year round, while the need for blood never goes on vacation.
- Virginia Blood Services is the local provider of blood to hospitals throughout Virginia, including Valley Health.
- Virginia Blood Services provides the blood for nearly two thirds of the patients receiving organ transplants in Virginia.
- Virginia Blood Services receives excellent inspection reports from the FDA, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Medicare, and the AABB.
- In Virginia, healthy adults who are at least 16 years old, and at least 110 pounds, may donate a pint of blood, every 56 days or every 2 months.
- Only 37% of the US population is eligible to donate blood, while less than 10 percent do annually.
- One pint of blood can save up to three lives.
- There is no substitute for human blood.
- The actual blood donation usually takes about 10 minutes. The entire process - from the time you sign in until the time you leave - takes about an hour.
- There are 10 pints of blood in the average adult.
- 4.6 million Americans will need a blood transfusion each year.
