New York Blood Center (NYBC) will be hosting an event with Stony Brook University (SBU) from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. where they will celebrate more than 100,000 lives saved. SBU reached this incredible milestone on February 8, 2023, when they received their 33,334th donation. One blood donation has the ability to save up to three lives.
As a long-time partner of NYBC, Stony Brook University has been a top university blood drive for many years. They have been hosting consistent blood drives with the organization since 2000, encouraging students to donate blood and become life-time donors. The blood drives, spearheaded by the Student Blood Drive Committee, have averaged 1,500 blood donations each academic year.
The event will include a proclamation and awards ceremony to honor the event as well as remarks from Rick Gatteau, Vice President of Student Affairs at SBU; Kara Hahn, Legislator of the 5th District; Viola Flowers, SBU Student Committee President; blood recipient Jamie Singh and NYBC leadership.
The event will be held on Wednesday, February 22, 2023, from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. at the Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University, 100 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4040.
It only takes one hour to donate, and a single donation can save multiple lives. Roughly one in seven hospital admissions require a blood transfusion. Those in need include: cancer patients, accident, burn, or trauma victims, newborn babies and their mothers, transplant recipients, surgery patients, chronically transfused patients suffering from sickle cell disease or thalassemia, and many more.
To make an appointment to donate blood, donors can call 1-800-933-2566 or visit this nybc.org. Can’t donate blood? You can still support NYBC’s mission by texting ‘NYBC’ to ‘20222’ to give $25.
About New York Blood Center
Founded in 1964, New York Blood Center (NYBC) is a nonprofit organization that is one of the largest independent, community-based blood centers in the world. NYBC, along with its operating divisions Community Blood Center of Kansas City, Missouri (CBC), Innovative Blood Resources (IBR), Blood Bank of Delmarva (BBD), and Rhode Island Blood Center (RIBC), collect approximately 4,000 units of blood products each day and serve local communities of more than 75 million people in the Tri-State area (NY, NJ, CT), Mid Atlantic area (PA, DE, MD, VA), Missouri and Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Rhode Island, and Southern New England. NYBC and its operating divisions also provide a wide array of transfusion-related medical services to over 500 hospitals nationally, including Comprehensive Cell Solutions, the National Center for Blood Group Genomics, the National Cord Blood Program, and the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, which — among other milestones — developed a practical screening method for hepatitis B as well as a safe, effective and affordable vaccine, and a patented solvent detergent plasma process innovating blood-purification technology worldwide.