ImpactLife is participating in a national response to supply blood for New Orleans in the aftermath of the mass casualty that occurred in the French Quarter during New Year’s celebrations. The blood center has been asked to send a shipment of Type O red blood cells to New Orleans.
Additional donations of red blood cells and platelets are needed to maintain the blood supply for local hospitals and for ongoing support to New Orleans. For information on local donation centers and mobile blood drives, call (800) 747-5401, visit www.bloodcenter.org, or schedule via the ImpactLife mobile app, available at www.bloodcenter.org/app.
ImpactLife is part of Blood Emergency Response Corps (BERC), a national partnership of community blood centers that have joined forces to meet immediate transfusion needs when faced with a large-scale emergency. Through BERC, on-call blood centers help prepare for mass transfusion disasters, ensuring their ability to meet emerging needs without delay or uncertainty.
ImpactLife will prioritize local needs before shipping blood components outside of the blood center’s direct service region. “We are asking all potential blood donors and our blood drive partners to help us answer the call,” said Amanda Hess, Vice President, Donor Relations and Marketing. “We will need to increase our donations this week and next to continue meeting local needs while also supporting New Orleans.”
ImpactLife Donor Promotions
Through January 31, all donors get their choice of an electronic gift card, a donation to a local food bank, or points to redeem in the Rewards Store. For more information, see www.bloodcenter.org/promotions.
Also through January 12, donors with a successful donation will receive:
- Whole blood (at a center): $40 gift card or $40 donation or 3,000 points
- Whole blood (at a mobile blood drive): $30 gift card or $30 donation or 2,000 points
- Double red/Plasma (all locations): $45 gift card or $45 donation or 3,500 points
- 3+ time Platelet (all locations): $45 gift card or $45 donation or 3,500 points
- 1st or 2nd time Platelet (all locations): $70 gift card or $70 donation or 6,000 points
About ImpactLife
ImpactLife is a not-for-profit community organization providing blood services to more than 120 hospitals in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Wisconsin, as well as resource sharing partners across the country. Services extend from southcentral Wisconsin to St. Louis, Missouri and from Danville, Illinois to Chariton, Iowa. (See a map of the ImpactLife service region.) ImpactLife operates 23 Donor Centers and holds approximately 5,000 mobile blood drives annually to provide blood components needed for patient transfusions at hospitals throughout our region.
For more information, see www.bloodcenter.org and find us @impactlifeblood on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, Twitter, Threads, and YouTube.
***Courtesy of Kirby Winn, Manager, Public Relations for ImpactLife***
