MEDIC Regional Blood Center and Kentucky Blood Center holding the 35 th Annual Orange and Blue Blood Drive on November 14 th – 18 th. You can donate at all mobile drives and donation centers:
Ailor Avenue – 1601 Ailor Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37920
Farragut/Kingston Pike – 11000 Kingston Pike, Ste. 4, Farragut, TN
37934
Athens – 213 E. Washington Ave., Ste. 104, Athens, TN 37303
Crossville – 96 Hayes St., Ste. 202, Crossville, TN 38555
Mobile Drives:
Monday:
Blount Memorial – 10 AM to 6 PM
Books-A-Million/Oak Ridge – 10 AM to 6 PM
Food City/AJ Hwy – 10 AM to 6 PM
UT/Neyland Stadium/Gate 21 – 10 AM to 6 PM
Hey Bear Café/Knoxville – 11 AM to 7 PM
Tuesday:
UTRF Business Incubator – 8 AM to 4 PM
Food City/Tazewell – 10 AM to 6 PM
Kingston Gravel Pit Park – 10 AM to 6 PM
UT/Neyland Stadium/Gate 21 – 10 AM to 6 PM
Hammer’s/Halls – 11 AM to 7 PM
Wednesday:
Tellico Village Wellness Center – 10 AM to 6 PM
UT/Neyland Stadium/Gate 21 – 10 AM to 6 PM
Walgreens/Oneida – 10 AM to 6 PM
Walmart/East Morristown – 10 AM to 6 PM
UT/Hess Hall – 12 PM to 7 PM
Thursday:
Walmart/Maryville – 10 AM to 7 PM
Big Lots/Jefferson City – 10 AM to 6 PM
Walmart/Clinton – 10 AM to 6 PM
Walmart/Sevierville – 10 AM to 6 PM
UT Student Union – 11 AM to 6 PM
Friday:
Pellissippi State Community College – 8:30 AM to 4 PM
UT/College of Law – 9 AM to 5 PM
UT/Hodges Library – 10 AM to 6 PM
Walmart/Newport – 10 AM to 6 PM
WHY: This is the 35 th year for the competition with MEDIC has won 14 times
and Kentucky with 19 wins in the series. MEDIC won in 2021 and is
looking for another big win in 2022. This competition is imperative for
the regional blood supply through the holiday season.
Donors will receive a special edition t-shirt, a $10 e-gift card (valid
email address required), Petro’s coupon, Salsarita’s coupon, Texas
Roadhouse coupon, Dunkin coupon, Papa John’s coupon, and Smoothie
King coupon.
MEDIC is the primary blood product provider for 24 hospitals in 22
counties including Blount Memorial, Covenant Health, East TN
Children’s Hospital, Tennova Healthcare, and UT Medical Center.
Appointments are preferred to mitigate wait times. Donors can call
865-521-2682 or 865-524-3074 to schedule their appointment.
Donors can also visit medicblood.org/donate or use the donor app to search
for a drive closest to them and schedule their appointment.
As a reminder, the blood, platelets, and plasma products on the
shelves now are what would be used in a trauma event, and it
takes at least three days for donated blood to be processed and
ready for distribution. Demand remains high while donations
have been low this summer.
MEDIC is an independent, nonprofit organization. Products donated
through MEDIC truly help East TN and Southeastern Kentucky
community members. Products donated through any other collection
activity/organization do not stay in East TN or Southeastern Kentucky.
Those products are shipped out of the area and nationally.
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