The Blood Connection, a non-profit blood center is now a blood provider for Prisma Health hospitals in the Midlands.
The Blood Connection will donate five dollars for every person who gives blood Tuesday, March 15, and Wednesday, March 16, to United Help Ukraine, which is an organization that gives medical supplies and survival equipment to Ukrainian citizens in need.
This shortage could make it hard to help, but a new national initiative involving the Blood Connection is doing something about it.
Tidelands Health has added an extra resource to help increase its access to blood donations as the nation experiences an unprecedented shortage. The health system has partnered with an additional supplier, The Blood Connection, to help keep blood supply coming to its facilities to help the treatment of patients.
The Blood Connection (TBC), a community blood center directly serving every Upstate hospital and more than 80 hospitals across the Carolinas and Georgia, announced Jan. 17 it is continuing to experience a critical need for blood donations, made worse by winter weather.
Blood banks are at a critical low point across Western North Carolina, where the Blood Connection says
the need is “unlike any other in TBC history.”