Give the gift of life this season

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Inova Blood Donor Services announces upcoming community blood drives Leesburg, VA —  Inova Blood Donor Services (IBDS) is calling on the community to help save lives by donating blood this holiday season. Blood donations are essential year-round, but as the holidays approach, supplies often run low. Inova invites donors throughout Loudoun County to participate in…

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Inova in critical need of type O donors

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Donate blood with Inova this summer and be a lifeline for those in need. The summer months are always a difficult season for blood collection and often result in critically low inventory.  Currently at Inova, a surge in cardiac patients in need of blood has exhausted our reserves and there is a pressing need for…

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Inova in critical need of type O- blood donors

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Falls Church, VA –– The need for blood donors, especially those with O-negative blood, has reached an all-time high. All blood types are needed, but Type O- is the most urgent need at this time and will help the most patients. Currently, we have less than a one-day supply of Type O- blood.  Type O…

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Inova Blood Donor Services Welcomes Previously Deferred Donors Due to vCJD

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Falls Church, VA – Inova Blood Donor Services supports the updated guidance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). vCJD is a rare disease of the central nervous system commonly referred to as “mad cow disease”. Despite initial concerns of potential transmission, science continues to show that the transmission…

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Inova Blood Donor Services to Provide PHI Air Medical with Blood Products in Virginia

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Falls Church, VA – Inova Blood Donor Services signed a contract to provide the blood supply  needed for PHI Air Medical’s Virginia and Maryland emergency medical air operations. PHI Air Medical helicopter bases in Virginia including Front Royal, Leesburg, Manassas, Fredericksburg, Harrisonburg, and Culpepper will be supplied with blood products under the new agreement.   …

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Inova’s Commitment to Using Blood Wisely

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Alan M. Speir, MD, is Medical Director of ECMO and Cardiac Surgery in the Inova Heart and Vascular Institute. He is board-certified in thoracic and cardiac surgery and received a 2020 Top Doc award from the Washingtonian. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, our nation is facing an unprecedented shortage of blood. Here’s why…

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Donations Needed: It is Safe to Get Out and Give Blood!

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SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT TO DONATE BLOOD TODAY Every 2 seconds, someone in the United States needs blood, including people in our own backyard. Inova Blood Donor Services provides life-saving blood to Northern Virginia, the Washington, DC metropolitan region and beyond. Today is no different. We need more than 250 volunteer donors every day to keep…

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