Memorial Blood Center

Two blood drives planned

Community members will have the chance to give the gift of life at two upcoming blood drives at Memorial Hall.

Friday will mark the first of the two: an Osawatomie Elks Lodge and Community Blood Center drive from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the hall, 11th and Main streets. Blood donors are asked to make an appointment by calling the Elks at 755-2334 or going online to www.esavealifenow.org and using the sponsor code “osawatomiecomm.”

According to a news release from the center, a single donation can help two local hospital patients. Community Blood Center must collect at least 580 pints of blood every day to meet the needs of individuals throughout the Greater Kansas City region.

Only a few days later, the American Red Cross and Tri-Ko have teamed up to offer a second blood drive from 2 to 8 p.m. July 6 at the same location. Again, participants are asked to sign up ahead of time to ensure that there will be enough staff members on hand to manage the influx of donors by calling Tri-Ko at 755-3025 or going online to www.redcrossblood.org and searching for the drive by ZIP code 66064.

“We’ve been helped, and we need to help,” Tri-Ko spokeswoman Valerie Davidson said. “We never know when we might be the one that needs it.”

She said Tri-Ko is considering making the blood drive an annual event.

Coffee Memorial Blood Center: A History of Compassion and ...

Through my work here at  Incept , I’ve had the opportunity to learn about some of the donor centers that make a difference in their communities. One of my favorites is  Coffee Memorial Blood Center of Amarillo, Texas.

On December 23, 1949, Coffee Memorial Blood Center got its start. They drew their first unit of blood on February 8, 1950. At the time, they were named the Potter County Memorial Blood Center, and the first permanent blood center site was a building donated by the Golding-Meadows Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. It wasn’t long before this remarkable blood center outgrew its first home and relocated to a new building, opening for donations on June 15, 1960.

Five years later, the Potter County Memorial Blood Center expanded its services, helping supply not just Randall County, but also the rest of the Texas Panhandle with much-needed blood products. In honor of Dr. James Robert Coffee and his parents, who were instrumental in the establishment of the blood center, the Potter County Memorial Blood Center became known as Coffee Memorial Blood Center.

As the need for blood transfusions and blood donors increased, Coffee Memorial Blood Center continued to strive for excellence, once again expanding to meet the needs of the community. On May 17, 1984, they began construction on their Coulter Drive site, which had been donated by the Amarillo Area Foundation. The first blood donation given at the new site was donated on February 4, 1985, by Jim Doche, the primary architect of the project.

Even after renovations and expansions in 1994, Coffee Memorial Blood Center was soon bursting at the seams with donors and staff. They moved to their current facility in January of 2007. This beautiful location off of I-40 is home to over 100 employees and draws more than 30,000 units of blood each year. These blood donations have the potential to save the lives of over more than half-a-million local patients.

Coffee Memorial Blood Center has had a rich history of dedication to their community from the very beginning. Since 1949, they’ve excelled in caring for their donors and ensuring that their local hospitals receive the blood they need. There are blood donors and patients out there who have been wowed by the compassion shown by this amazing blood center. And as long as there is a need for life-saving blood products in their area, Coffee Memorial Blood Center will continue working hard to save lives.

Hospitals, the journal of the American Hospital Association

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Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

Both centers had 1 or 2 local Jk(ab— ) donors available, but most of the transfused units came from frozen stock collected at Irwin Memorial, United Blood ...

Blood policy & technology.

Charges in some community blood centers can be higher, eg, $67 for whole blood in San Mateo, CA (including a replacement fee); $75 at the Irwin Memorial ...

Hospital liability

Irwin Memorial Blood Centers of San Francisco Medical Society, 40 Cal. Rptr.2d 360 (Cal. App. 1995) (blood center was not liable for transfusing patient ...

The preparation and trial of medical malpractice cases

Invin Memorial Blood Bank, 5 Cal. App. 4th 234, 7 Cal. Rptr.2d 101 (1992). See also Spann v. Irwin Memorial Blood Centers, 40 Cal. ...