ELLISVILLE – Jones College’s annual Fall Blood Drive will be held Monday through Wednesday, September 16, 17 and 18, 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. On Tuesday and Wednesday, Vitalant will have two Mobile Units collecting donations in the Allied Health Building Parking Lot across from the D.O. Thoms P.E. Gym and in the Parking Lot in front of the Student Union Center 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/
“Every year Jones College’s students, faculty, and staff get to play a huge part in meeting people’s needs not only in our community, but across the state of Mississippi. Our blood drive helps provide a critical resource to sick and injured people throughout the state. Each year the need for critical blood supplies increases, and the JC students, faculty and staff step up every year and we do our best to meet the needs of our state and our community. I couldn’t be prouder of what Jones does through this one community service opportunity and we always like to say this blood drive means that the ‘blood of bobcats’ flows throughout the entire state,” said JC Blood Drive Coordinator, JCJC Emergency Technology-Paramedic Program Director and Healthcare Simulation Center Director, Benji Sessums, Ph.D. NR-P.
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.