{"id":414141,"date":"2026-07-27T18:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/414141\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T18:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:46:08","slug":"red-cross-declares-national-blood-crisis-urges-la-county-donors-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/414141\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross Declares National Blood Crisis, Urges LA County Donors To Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBlood donations simply are not keeping pace with hospital demand, and inventories \u2014 especially type O blood \u2014 remain under significant strain,\u201d Chris Hrouda, president of Red Cross Biomedical Services, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Cross previously declared a national blood crisis in January 2022. Since then, the organization said it has strengthened coordination with hospitals and improved advance planning for blood needs, but those measures have not offset this summer\u2019s decline in donations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBlood donations simply are not keeping pace with hospital demand, and inventories \u2014 especially type O blood \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-414141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}