Medic blood drive planned for January 31

Giving blood protects you and your family from paying blood supplier processing fees—and your donation could save a life! Under Medic Regional Blood Center’s blood-donor plan, one donation a year exempts the donor and his or her dependents from paying blood supplier processing fees anywhere in the country if a transfusion is needed.

The Medic Mobile Unit is conducting a blood drive in the visitor’s parking lot at the Pellissippi Campus on January 31, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Medic is the only blood collector and supplier for the eight Knoxville hospitals and for 20 other hospitals in 21 counties in East Tennessee and Southeast Kentucky.

Currently, the center has an emergency need for O positive, O negative and A negative blood types.

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