Earlier this spring Seattle Children’s Hospital was forced to shut down four of its operating rooms due to mold. With these patients being transferred from Seattle to Tacoma, Mary Bridge is in dire need of donors to help support the high demand for blood products.
Earlier this spring Seattle Children’s Hospital was forced to shut down four of its operating rooms due to mold. With these patients being transferred from Seattle to Tacoma, Mary Bridge is in dire need of donors to help support the high demand for blood products.
“From the initial closure at Seattle Children’s Hospital, we have seen our demand for blood on pediatric patients increase nearly 400%,” Richard Freed, Cascade Regional Blood Service’s Laboratory Operations Manager tells us. “At this point, we expect the demand to increase even further. Recruiting, collecting and processing blood for the pediatric patients is always a challenge.”
Cascade Regional Blood Service encourages all eligible donors and even first-time donors to make a difference this summer by making a blood donation to help keep supplies high enough in order to support the record amounts of young patients in need.