Long Island Blood Services Partners with SNCH

PRLog (Press Release) - Apr 02, 2009 -
Joseph A. Quagliata, president and CEO of South Communities Nassau Hospital, rolled up his sleeves to donate the first pint of blood as Long Island Blood Services and the hospital opened the doors to its new donor center at 290 Sunrise Highway in Rockville Centre, NY.
The center is open to receive whole blood or platelets on the following days:
Day                              Whole Blood                           Platelets
Monday                       Closed                                      1:45 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Tuesday                      2 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.                     1 p.m. –  5:15 p.m.
Wednesday                 8 a.m. – 1:30  p.m.                    7:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Thursday                     2:15 p.m.  – 7:30 p.m.                1:45 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Friday                          2 p.m. – 7:30  p.m.                    1 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Saturday                      8 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.                     7:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Sunday                         Closed                                      7:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
To schedule a blood or platelet donation, call:  1-800-933-2566.
Long Island Blood Services (LIBS) is a division of New York Blood Center, the nation’s largest community-based non-profit blood collection and distribution organization. LIBS has been providing life-saving blood products and services to 50 hospitals throughout Nassau, Suffolk and Queens for close to 40 years.
According to America’s Blood Centers:
1.   More than 4.5 million patients need blood transfusions each year in the U.S. and Canada.
2.   Someone needs blood every two seconds.
3.   About 1 in 7 people entering a hospital need blood.
4.   One pint of blood can save up to three lives.
5.   Much of today's medical care depends on a steady supply of blood from healthy donors.
6.   Children being treated for cancer, premature infants and children having heart surgery need blood and platelets from donors of all types, especially type O.
7.   The #1 reason blood donors say they give is because they "want to help others."
8.   If all blood donors gave three times a year, blood shortages would be a rare event (The current average is about two.).
9.   If only one more percent of all Americans would give blood, blood shortages would disappear for the foreseeable future.
South Nassau Communities Hospital is one of the region’s largest hospitals, with 441 beds, more than 875 physicians and 2,600 employees.  Located in Oceanside, NY, the hospital is an acute–care, not-for-profit teaching hospital that provides state-of-the-art care in cardiac, oncologic, orthopedic, bariatric, pain management, mental health and emergency services.  In addition to its extensive outpatient specialty centers, South Nassau is a designated Stroke Center, boasts Long Island’s first Gamma Knife and provides angioplasty in an emergency or as an elective procedure.  South Nassau is designated as a Comprehensive Community Cancer Center by the American College of Surgeons and recognized as a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence by the American Society of Bariatric Surgery.  For more information, visit www.southnassau.org.