SBU, New York Blood Center Host 100,000 Lives Saved Celebration

Press release from SBU:

Feb. 22, 2023

New York Blood Center (NYBC) hosted an event Feb. 22 with Stony Brook University (SBU) from to celebrate more than 100,000 lives saved. SBU reached this incredible milestone on February 8, 2023, when they received their 33,334th donation. One blood donation has the ability to save up to three lives.

As a long-time partner of NYBC, Stony Brook University has been a top university blood drive for many years. They have been hosting consistent blood drives with the organization since 2000, encouraging students to donate blood and become life-time donors. The blood drives, spearheaded by the Student Blood Drive Committee, have averaged 1,500 blood donations each academic year.

The event will include a proclamation and awards ceremony to honor the event as well as remarks from Rick Gatteau, Vice President of Student Affairs at SBU; Kara Hahn, Legislator of the 5th District; Viola Flowers, SBU Student Committee President; blood recipient Jamie Singh and NYBC leadership.

It only takes one hour to donate, and a single donation can save multiple lives. Roughly one in seven hospital admissions require a blood transfusion. Those in need include: cancer patients, accident, burn, or trauma victims, newborn babies and their mothers, transplant recipients, surgery patients, chronically transfused patients suffering from sickle cell disease or thalassemia, and many more.

To make an appointment to donate blood, donors can call 1-800-933-2566 or visit this nybc.org. Can’t donate blood? You can still support NYBC’s mission by texting ‘NYBC’ to ‘20222’ to give $25.

This press release was produced by SBU. The views expressed here are the author's own.