BLOOD DRIVE
JUNE 2, 2026
JUNE 2, 2026
BLOOD DRIVE
JUNE 3, 2025
JUNE 3, 2025
BLOOD DRIVE
JUNE 5, 2024
JUNE 5, 2024
BLOOD DRIVE
JUNE 6, 2023
JUNE 6, 2023
Blood Drive
June 7, 2022
BLOOD DRIVE
June 1, 2021
June 1, 2021
BLOOD DRIVE
June 2, 2020
June 2, 2020
Blood Drive
in honor of Dan Tiefenbrunn
June 26, 2019
Blood Facts...
- On any given day, an average of 38,000 units of red blood cells are needed for hospital patients in the United States.
- One in 10 people entering a hospital needs blood.
- Approximately 38% of the population is eligible to donate blood. Of those eligible, only a small fraction have actually given blood.
- In the United States, someone needs a blood transfusion about every two seconds.
- The average adult body contains 10-12 pints of blood. A newborn baby has about one cup of blood in his or her body.
- There are about one billion red blood cells in two to three drops of blood.
- Red blood cells must be transfused within 42 days.
- There is no substitute for human blood. It cannot be manufactured.
- Almost everyone will know someone who needs blood.
- Blood is often needed for traumas, heart surgeries, joint replacements, organ transplants, premature babies, leukemia and cancer treatments, and much more.
- People in car accidents who suffer massive blood loss may require transfusion of more than 50 pints of red blood cells.