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The Blood Connection Offering Community Members Chance to “Double Their Donation”
The Blood Connection Offering Community Members Chance to “Double Their Donation” September to Honor Childhood Cancer, Sickle Cell Disease AwarenessTHE CAROLINAS AND GEORGIA (September 1, 2022) Those who donate with The Blood Connection, the non-profit community blood...
The Blood Connection Offering Community Members Chance to “Double Their Donation” – Holy City Sinner (SC)
Those who donate with The Blood Connection (TBC), the non-profit community blood center, are directly impacting the lives of people in this community; people like children battling cancer, or a neighbor suffering from Sickle Cell Disease. Those people rely on community blood donors every day to ensure lifesaving blood products needed for treatments are available in local hospitals. That is why TBC is partnering with local and national organizations to shed light on Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and Sickle Cell Awareness Month.
The Blood Connection breaks ground on new Anderson blood donation center – Upstate Business Journal (SC)
The 4,000-square-foot facility will serve AnMed Health, which closed its blood donor center in 2018 and has been using TBC as its sole blood provider.
Nonprofit blood center opens new donor site for Augusta patients – WRDW (GA)
The non-profit blood center, The Blood Connection, is starting blood drives to help meet the need for Doctors Hospital.
The Blood Connection – Formerly Carolina-Georgia Blood Center – Chosen as Blood Provider for Doctors Hospital of Augusta
The Blood Connection Chosen as Blood Provider for Doctors Hospital of Augusta AUGUSTA, G.A. - The Blood Connection (TBC), an independently managed, non-profit community blood center will now be providing blood for Doctors Hospital of Augusta. Through the pandemic, TBC...
Meet Luca, a Myrtle Beach 2-year-old with leukemia – WBTW (SC)
For Luca, and for any other patients in need of a transfusion, having blood available is critical. The past several years have been difficult.
Thousands more now eligible to donate blood after FDA rule change
The Blood Connection says the old regulations, implemented more than 20 years ago, were meant to protect the blood supply against a variant of mad cow disease, a fatal infection of the brain and nerve tissue.
The Blood Connection sticks to its mission through 60 years: Upstate Business Journal (SC)
In 1962, Dr. E. Arthur “Art” Dreskin launched what became known as the Greenville Blood Assurance Plan, which he served for 40 years. He died in 2006, six years after the organization was renamed The Blood Connection, which, since 1978, had been known as Carolina Blood Center, then Carolina-Georgia Blood Center.
TBC Sends Blood to Texas After School Shooting
The Blood Connection Sends Blood in Response to Texas Elementary School Shooting Blood Emergency Readiness Corps Activated CAROLINAS & GEORGIA – Today, the national Blood Emergency Readiness Corps (BERC), of which The Blood Connection (TBC) is a member, was...
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