{"id":38942,"date":"2019-02-07T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/local-hospital-blood-supplies-at-1-day-levels-lowest-in-years\/"},"modified":"2019-02-07T12:57:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T20:57:35","slug":"local-hospital-blood-supplies-at-1-day-levels-lowest-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/local-hospital-blood-supplies-at-1-day-levels-lowest-in-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Local hospital blood supplies dip to 1-day levels, lowest in years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to snow and icy roads, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodworksnw.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bloodworks Northwest<\/a> has lost 1,500 donations in the last three days.<\/p>\n<p>Bloodworks Northwest&rsquo;s blood inventory is at emergency levels &mdash; less than a one-day supply. Donors are urged to make an appointment as soon as possible before the second winter storm hits.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Snow and icy road conditions on Monday caused the cancellation of hundreds of appointments at our donor centers and prevented mobile drives when severe road conditions stranded people at home,&rdquo; said Dr. James P. AuBuchon, MD, president and CEO of Bloodworks Northwest. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re urging folks to make an appointment as soon as possible to help get our inventory back to normal levels.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On average, it takes about 900 donors per day to maintain a healthy supply for local patients. Donors can go to any one of 12 centers, or give blood at mobile drives at schools, workplaces or community halls. Donating a pint of blood is simple to do and takes less than an hour. Frequently asked questions are posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodworksnw.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bloodworks website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to snow and icy roads, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodworksnw.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bloodworks Northwest<\/a> has lost 1,500 donations in the last three days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":38943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-38942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38942"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=38942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}