06.28.2017 Health Bellone encourages residents to donate during blood shortage Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone stressed on Monday for residents to donate blood after the New York Blood Center declared a blood emergency in the New York metropolitan area....
06.02.2016 Health Emergency appeal for blood donors in advance of Riverhead drive The New York Blood Center has issued an emergency appeal for blood donations due to what they’re calling a nationwide blood shortage.
02.29.2016 Health Volunteers organize vital blood drive efforts frequently. But how? Every three seconds someone in the United States needs a lifesaving blood transfusion. That means 28,800 people every day rely on donated blood supplies to survive, according to the...
01.29.2015 Health Blood supplies low following blizzard; donors wanted With blizzard conditions sweeping the region this week, the last thing on many people’s minds has been donating blood — and it’s created the largest loss of blood donations...
08.08.2014 Health East End’s only blood donation center quietly closes its doors The East End’s only blood donation center, the brick-and-mortar Long Island Blood Services, quietly closed its doors in Riverhead this spring — so quietly, in fact, that many in the...
12.18.2013 Community W.R. Fire Department hosting blood drive today The Wading River Fire Department is hosting a blood drive from 3 to 9 p.m. today at the department firehouse. Each donor will be entered into a raffle to...