Blood Donations

There are severe blood shortages throughout Florida and that has prompted a call for Southwest Floridians to donate platelets or whole blood.Laura Rosen, community relations manager for the NCH Community Blood Center in Collier County, says the call to donate is to ensure local blood inventories remain optimal for patients in area hospitals.

There is a critical need for types O negative and A negative blood in Collier County.The county’s Community Blood Center says there is a critically low inventory of those blood products, the result of a sudden increase in area usage.The only way to obtain adequate levels of transfusable blood is through donations from the community’s members.

There is a critical need for Type O blood In Collier Count to help boost the Community Blood Center's critically low blood product inventories.The local shortage is due to a sudden increase in area use. The only way to obtain adequate levels of transfusable blood is through donations.

The Community Blood Center, an affiliate of NCH, has a critical shortage of platelets and type O negative blood.Donors are needed immediately in Collier County to ensure that lifesaving blood products are readily available for accident victims, surgical patients, and people who have cancer and blood disorders.

A Southwest Florida area blood center has an initiative that aims to raise awareness of the critical need for blood donations during the holidays by offering free Botox in return for blood donations.

The new vehicle is a larger, roomier mobile unit ad is now in service accepting blood donations.

Lee Health is looking for blood donors to replenish its blood supply.

State health officials reported 854 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Florida, Monday, for a statewide total of 46,442 cases. The Florida Department of Health also reported 26 new coronavirus-related deaths, Monday, for a total of 1,997 fatalities. 901 of the documented deaths in Florida have been associated with long-term care facilities, accounting for 45.1% of all COVID-19 related deaths in the state.

Lee Health is asking the community to make blood donations because its O positive blood inventory is low.Lee Health’s blood center supervisor Jeremy…