The Lee Health Bloodmobile will be visiting The Pine Island Moose Lodge at 8903 Stringfellow Road in St. James City on Saturday, April 4,\u00a0from 8 a.m. to noon. \u00a0At Lee Health, donated blood goes to help save the lives of patients at your community-owned hospitals:\u00a0 Lee Memorial Hospital, HealthPark Medical Center, Golisano Children\u2019s Hospital of Southwest Florida, Gulf Coast Medical Center and Cape Coral Hospital.\u00a0In addition to the five hospitals, the blood center also services the Level II Trauma Center at Lee Memorial Hospital and the Regional Cancer Center at the Sanctuary.<\/p>\n
New studies show that donating blood improves your overall cardiovascular health. Regularly donating blood helps men in particular to reduce the amount of iron in the blood. This can reduce the chance of heart attack by 88%. Additionally, regular blood donation can lower the risk of severe cardiovascular events such as stroke by 33%. \u00a0You also burn 650 calories! It\u2019s a win-win!<\/p>\n
One in three people will need blood in their lifetime. You never know when you or someone you know or love will need blood. So come out and Give the Gift of Life!<\/p>\n
The drive goal of\u00a018+\u00a0units of blood. All donors will receive a free health checkup, cholesterol screening, and gift.<\/p>\n
Requirements for donating blood:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Weigh at least 115 pounds<\/p>\n
\u2022 Be at least 16 years old (16 requires parental written consent)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Be relatively healthy<\/p>\n
\u2022 Provide photo ID<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u00a0Have 56 days between donations<\/p>\n
Eat a meal before donating blood and be sure to drink plenty of fluids before and after donation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Call 343-2333 for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lee Health Bloodmobile will be visiting The Pine Island Moose Lodge at 8903 Stringfellow Road in St.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-198452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}