CSRA Blood Donation Center Sending Emergency Products To Atlanta
Shepeard Community Blood Center is stepping up in response to the school shooting on Wednesday at Apalachee High School in Winder, GA. While Shepeard is a regular blood supplier to Piedmont Athens, they are sending emergency blood products to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.
In a post made on social media, Shepeard asks for the public’s support through blood donation. By donating blood, you can save up to three local lives. Donations can be made at one of the five Shepeard Community Blood Centers around the CSRA, including mobile drives.
How To Donate Blood
Various organizations host blood drives throughout the Augusta area, and you can participate that way. But, you don’t have to wait for an event. Shepeard Community Blood Center has 5 locations around the CSRA :
- Augusta – 1533 Wrightsboro Road
- Monday – Friday 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
- Saturday 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
- Aiken – 353 Fabian Drive
- Tuesday – Saturday 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
- Evans – 4329 Washington Road
- Monday – Friday 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.
- Saturday 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
- Sunday 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
- Grovetown – 290 Meridian Drive
- Monday – Friday 7 a.m. – 4 p.m.
- Saturday 8 a.m. – 2 p.m.
- Sunday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
- Dublin – 122 South Jefferson Street
- Monday – Friday 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
- Saturday 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. – THIRD Saturday of each month ONLY
Your blood donation can help save local lives. The donations stay in the community to help those in need.
Before you donate, be sure to check out these blood donation tips from Shepeard Community Blood Center!
About Shepeard Community Blood Center
Shepeard Community Blood Center is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit blood center. They collect, process, and distribute blood and blood products. The donations through Shepeard help provide for 23 hospitals in 30 counties across the Georgia and South Carolina area.
Shepeard Community Blood Center’s first location was opened on October 9, 1978. The original location was a leased building on 12th Street in downtown Augusta. One of the founders was Walter L. Shepeard, and the center was named after him. He was a doctor and chairman of the Department of Medical Technology at the Medical College of Georgia. Shepeard was nationally recognized as a specialist in blood banking and he was devoted to the development of a center in the Augusta area.
The donation center in Aiken wasn’t opened until September 2001, although prior to that, they operated out of a bloodmobile to aid Aiken Regional Medical Centers. A location was also opened in Evans on North Belair Road, but that location relocated to Washington Road in February 2010.
The center now has 5 donation locations throughout the CSRA, and also has bloodmobiles that visit 21 counties within South Carolina and Georgia.