Blood is essential to life. When patients need blood, they depend on your donation. Blood transports nutrients and defense antibodies, cells and clotting factors. Red blood cells deliver and release oxygen throughout the body. There is no substitute for human blood. The average adult's body contains 10-12 pints of blood, but a donation of just one pint of blood can be separated into various components and used to help three patients! Blood donations are needed constantly, so call the American Red Cross of Tompkins County and give blood today! Patients depend on you, healthy volunteer donors, to give blood and help save lives!

For more information on national American Red Cross Blood Services, visit American Red Cross Biomedical Services

For more information on the local Blood Services Region, visit the New York-Penn Blood Services Region

For more information contact the Red Cross at 273-1900 or
e-mail bloodservices@tompkins-redcross.org

American Red Cross of Tompkins County
201 West Clinton Street Ithaca, NY 14850
(607) 273-1900