There is an urgent need for blood this week. According to LIFELINE Blood Services, not
enough blood was donated during the weeks leading up to the Memorial Day Holiday.
Currently there is only one half day supply of most blood types, (o negative, o positive, a
negative, b negative, and b positive) for patients in need. This means that one patient with
a serious bleed could completely deplete a particular blood type. “We are issuing an
emergency appeal for blood in order to meet the demands for the patients that our blood
center is committed to serve,” said Cherie Parker, Public Relations Coordinator, Lifeline Blood
Services. Blood donors are urged to give blood this week at these locations:
LIFELINE Blood Services, 183 Sterling Farms Drive, Jackson, week days, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
and Saturday, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Please call 800-924-6572 or 731-427-4431.
Also, blood donors may give blood this week at the following Community Blood Drives:
Wednesday, May 30 , TN College of Applied Tech., Whiteville, 9-1
Tennova Healthcare, Volunteer Martin, 2-6 pm
Thursday, May 31, Jackson Madison County General Hospital,
Main Entrance, 7-11 a.m. & 12-6 p.m.
Tennova HealthCare,Dyersburg Regional, 10-2
Friday, June 1
Pine Meadows Nursing Home, Bolivar, 10-2
Reelfoot Family Walk-In Clinic, Dyersburg, 1-6
Relay for Life, Haywood Co. at Criminal Justice Complex, Brownsville, 6-10 p
Saturday, June 2 Relay for Life, Milan City Park, 5-10 p.m.
