Donate Blood & Get a Restaurant Gift Card

January 30 & 31, 2016

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Anyone who donates blood, platelets or plasma at Community Blood Services� Lincoln Park Donor Center on Saturday, January 30 or Parsippany Donor Center on Sunday, January 31 will receive a complimentary gift card good at one of several restaurants as a thank you for their lifesaving donation.

�We need the help of our volunteer donors to build up the blood supply during the winter months. Last weekend�s predicted snowstorm resulted in canceled drives that negatively impacted the supply,� said Karen Ferriday, director of community affairs at Community Blood Services. �We continue to need platelet donors, as well as types O negative and positive blood donors. Donors who take time out of their busy schedules to donate at one of these centers on those days will get a gift card good at Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba�s Italian Grill or the Bonefish Grill as our thanks.�

Donors can donate at the Lincoln Park center, 63 Beaverbrook Road, Suite 304 on Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. or on Sunday at Parsippany, 1259 Route 46 East, Building #4E, Suite 12, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

To make an appointment to donate, donors can call 201-251-3703 or click here to schedule online. Walk-ins are also welcome but an appointment is needed to donate platelets. Whole blood donors may be 16-75 years of age (16 and 17 year olds need parental permission) and weigh at least 110 pounds.

�Want to help save even more lives in your community? Call and ask about making a donation using our automated technology,� Ferriday suggested, noting if a donor is eligible he or she can donate more than one unit or blood product at a time.

�This helps us better target and meet the needs of patient in our local hospitals,� she explained.

Community Blood Services is a not-for-profit organization that provides blood and blood products to more than 20 hospitals in New Jersey and New York, including Atlantic Health System hospitals.