Blood Services + Red Cross Chapters = American Red Cross Team The Blood Services Region collects blood donations from local residents, processes and tests the blood, and distributes blood to local hospitals. Donations are collected at blood drives held at businesses, churches, and other organizations that generously host. Local hospital patients who need blood depend entirely on volunteer blood donations.Blood collection, processing, testing, and distribution are closely regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the Blood Services Region and the Chapter operate under separate structures. Both depend on all of us for the resources to serve the public good. Thank you for your generous support! To sign up to donate blood call 524-0400.

The Union County Chapter of the American Red Cross provides community education in disaster preparedness, First Aid, CPR and aquatics; disaster response and relief and Service to the Armed Forces, providing emergency social services to military personnel and their families.

We Depend on Volunteers

Volunteers constitute 96 percent of our total work force to carry on our humanitarian work:

• Every year the Red Cross responds to more than 70,000 disasters—including approximately 150 home fires every day.
• About 11 million Americans turn to us to learn first aid, CPR, swimming, and other health and safety skills. Last year, more than 158,000 people volunteered to teach those courses.
• Half the nation's blood supply— six million pints annually—is collected by more than 155,000 Red Cross volunteers .
• Among our emergency services for the men and women of the armed forces is the delivery of urgent family messages—around the clock and around the globe.
• More than 30,900 volunteers serve as chairs, members of boards of directors, or on advisory boards for local Red Cross units - chapters, Blood Services regions, and military stations.
• As part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Red Cross reconnects more than 8,000 families separated by conflicts and disasters around the world through international tracking services and Red Cross messages.

The Union County Chapter of the American Red Cross is proud to be a member agency of Union County United Way http://www.ucuw.org/