Heartland Blood Centers' mobile bus to stop at Chicago Auto Show
While Chicagoans attend the nation's largest auto show, they can "roll up their sleeves" to save a life on board Heartland Blood Centers' blood mobile, the most powerful vehicle at the show.
Heartland Blood Centers, the leading provider of donated blood for Chicago-area hospitals will be hosting the 2017 Chicago Auto Show's Dennis Buckley Memorial Blood Drive.
Blood donations will be collected on the custom, 40-foot long vehicle on display in the south building of McCormick Place as part of the show!
Amy Smith, director of donor recruitment at Heartland Blood Centers, says, "We are very excited to be back at the Chicago Auto Show this year. Partnering with the Chicago Automobile Trade Association over the last two years, Heartland Blood Centers has collected over 2,100 units of blood saving over 6,300 lives." "To ensure transfusion needs are met at all 74 Chicagoland hospitals, Heartland will need to average collecting 150 pints daily at the show," Smith continues.
The Chicago Automobile Trade Association has sponsored the Auto Show blood drive program for 18 years. The blood drive was named the Dennis Buckley Memorial Blood Drive in honor of the former CATA marketing director who originally took on the project in 1999. Buckley died in 2010.
Their generous donation has offered thousands of community minded individuals the opportunity to participate in the volunteer blood program.
Make your appointment to donate today! As a thank you, all donors will receive a limited edition, Chicago Auto Show Blood Donor T-shirt.
Call (800) 786-4483, text APPT to 444-999 or visit heartlandbc.org.
The mobile bus will be at McCormick Place's South Exhibit Hall, booth #SH320 on Feb. 11-20.
To be a blood donor, individuals must be at least 17 years old, or 16 with written parental permission; weigh at least 110 pounds; be symptom free of cold, flu and allergies; and be in general good health. Donors who have traveled outside the United States within the past 12 months should contact Heartland at (800) 7TO-GIVE to determine eligibility.
About Heartland Blood Centers: Heartland Blood Centers opened in 1943 and has grown to be the No. 1 provider of blood in the Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana area, supplying the transfusion needs of 100 percent of the patients in the 74 hospitals.