Heat is on for summer blood donations to prevent shortage

Vitalant offering limited-time ‘Team Donor’ T-shirt and a chance to win the Summer Car Giveaway

Nonprofit Vitalant is urging all eligible volunteer blood donors to help prevent a summer shortage by giving blood this July. Donations around the Fourth of July are typically among the lowest of the year but patients’ needs don’t take a vacation.

Donors of all blood types are urgently needed, especially type O, the most transfused blood type. O-negative can be used to help any patient in an emergency and O-positive can help any patient with a positive blood type.

As a special thank you, all donors who give July 1-7 and opt-in to Donor Rewards can get an exclusive” Team Donor” T-shirt while supplies last.

As a special thanks for donating July 8-27, donors will be automatically entered into Vitalant’s Summer Car Giveaway for a vehicle valued up to $30,000.

It’s easy to make a difference. Learn more and make an appointment to give at vitalant.org, download and use the Vitalant app or call (877-258-4825.

Upcoming Blood Drives:

Wheeling: 1-5 p.m. Wednesday, July 3, at the Wheeling Community Conference Center, 700 McHenry Road.

Arlington Heights: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, July 8, at Luther Village, 1250 Village Drive.

Rosemont: 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 9, at Columbia Centre II, 9450 W. Bryn Mawr.

About Vitalant

Vitalant is one of the nation’s largest nonprofit blood and biotherapies health care organizations, providing hospitals and patients across the U.S. a safe blood supply, specialized laboratory services, transfusion medicine expertise and world-renowned research. Individuals generously donating blood, volunteering and giving financially are essential to our lifesaving mission. Learn more at vitalant.org.