LifeShare Blood Center is hosting a blood drive on Monday, May 26 from 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm at OGHS South Campus.
All who donate will receive a $5 gift certificate for a meal in the OGHS Cafe’.
HEALTH & SAFETY OF BLOOD DRIVES DURING COVID-19:
LifeShare will reinforce and strengthen its highly safe and FDA-regulated blood collection practices during this time. LifeShare maintains several Standard Operation Procedures (SOP’s) to ensure the safety of our blood donors, staff, and the collected blood products.
In addition to these already stringent practices, LifeShare is making enhancements to further ensure our donor areas are as low-risk as possible.
These include:
• Not hosting public blood drives of greater than 50 donors.
• Sanitizing donor beds and chairs following each donation.
• Stocking additional cleaning and disinfectant supplies as we increase the cleaning of high-touch surfaces in our donor areas.
• Reinforcing training procedures to ensure our staff are following proper safety and hygiene procedures.
Reinforcing Safety
The safety of our donors has always been the most important of LifeShare’s effort to provide the community with lifesaving blood products. The coronavirus outbreak has not changed that. As a reminder to the community:
• LifeShare follows FDA safety regulations to ensure a safe hygienic donation environment.
• COVID-19 poses no known risk to blood donors during the donation process.
• There are no reports that COVID-19 can be transmitted through a blood transfusion.
• Blood donors should be healthy. If you are sick or symptomatic please reschedule your donation.
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