On November 25, 2019 the health science department at the Florence Career Center hosted its annual blood drive in Mr. Davis’s Sports Medicine room. Students and staff members were encouraged to sign up and give the gift of life by donating blood to the American Red Cross. The students and staff members that gave received a $5 Amazon gift card and a snack. Students in the Sports Medicine class put signs up around campus and went door to door asking for people to donate. They were Saving Lives At The Florence Career Center Students eager to help people they will probably never meet. It could be you, or it could be one of your family members that they save. Even though we did not reach our goal of 21 units we did have a great showing of love and kindness by those that volunteered and donated. If you would like to donate blood to the American Red Cross please visit their website at redcross.org for more information and detail. able to get one staff member and twenty-one students signed up to donate blood. Six health science students volunteered their time to help the day of the blood drive and assist in any way that they could. In the end they were able to collect blood from 10 people and collect 12 units of blood total. Two donors gave double red “2 units” and 8 gave the standard one unit. The American Red Cross reports that for every pint of blood donated it can save up to three adults lives. This means our students and staff saved as many as 36 adults that day by donating the gift of life. Students at our F1S schools can earn a red cord at graduation from the American Red Cross if they donate three of more pints of blood during their high school careers, and become eligible for college scholarships not available to those that do not donate. I can honestly say I am so proud of what we accomplished.
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