American Red Cross
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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 disastersincluding 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 annuallyis 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.

 

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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/

 

 
 
March is Red Cross Month
March is Red Cross Month! The best time to support your Chapter! On Wednesday, March 3rd we will hold our 14th Annual Dine-Out for Red Cross event. Participating restaurants in Union County will donate a percentage of their "take" for lun
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Creating a Heart–Safe Community!   Workplace, Church, Schools, Senior Centers , Health Clubs, Government/Public buildings.  
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If you have ever wanted to drive a Red Cross ERV (Emergency Response Vehicle) this is a great place to start! An AARP Safe Driver Class will be held at the new Mifflinburg Bank community room l
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Be sure to check our Calendar on a regular basis to see when and where blood drives are held, to find out about upcoming classes you may wish to take and to keep up with all of our special even
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For complete course descriptions and information to guide you in your course planning,
call Pat Keller at 524-0400  Register.     CPR, AED, First Aid:
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Blood Services....................Here are four easy steps to save a life; 1. Find a Blood Drive............click on our calendar to do that. 2. Call to make an appointment 524-0400
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Our Health and Safety department

has three new classes coming soon:  

Baby Sitter Training to be held on

February 13th and 15th. Pet First

Aid to be held on February 20th

from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.

Sports Injury Prevention and First

Aid to be held on March 7th from

9:00 a.m. 'til 1:00 p.m. Register

by calling 524-0400 or online

 

 

 


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Nominations for 2010 are open, look around you, you will

find heroes everywhere, nominate one! Our next Heroes

Breakfast will be held on Friday, May 7, 2010.   The Red

Cross touches lives in our community every day, through blood

drives and services such as disaster relief and health and safety

training.  On Friday, May 8, 2009 at Country Cupboard

Restaurant in Lewisburg we will held our 92nd Annnual Board

Meeting and Third Annual Heroes Breakfast at 7:30am.  As

an organization committed to helping the community, the Red

Cross is honored to have saluted those individuals who are

making a difference through their actions.  Police Officers,

physicians, nurses, teachers, firefighters and individuals in all

walks of life are making a commitment, through their actions,

to making Union County a better place to live, work and play