ELLISVILLE – Jones College’s annual Fall Blood Drive will be held Monday through Wednesday, September 18, 19 and 20, at Jones College. On Monday, the Mobile Unit will be parked outside of the Industrial Services Building from 8:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. and on Tuesday and Wednesday, Vitalant will be collecting donations in the D.O. Thoms P.E. Building’s Gym from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. The public, as well as the JC community is invited to participate by making an appointment on the Vitalant website, https://donors.vitalant.org/
“This is the time of year in which the need for blood products increases as the upcoming holiday season approaches. Both the community and more importantly, our Jones College students, faculty and staff have an opportunity to give back to our community. About 60 of our students assist with the blood drive to get community service hours but we’ve also discovered they are impacted by the drive itself,” said JC Blood Drive Coordinator, JCJC Emergency Technology-Paramedic Program Director and Healthcare Simulation Center Director, Benji Sessums, Ph.D. NR-P.
Last spring, Jones College sophomore, Alexis Kittrell of Mize volunteered and shared, “Jones College can really come together. So many people came to give blood that there were not enough bags! Something as simple as donating a little bit of your blood can be used in such a big way to help someone else.”
The overall goal for the three-days is 105 units of blood stated Sessums. To encourage donations, T-shirts will be given to all donors and Door Prizes will be available all three days for donors during random drawings.