{"id":302407,"date":"2026-06-10T10:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T10:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/302407\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T10:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T10:31:07","slug":"city-of-sanibel-sponsors-blood-drive-to-help-lee-county-shortage-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/302407\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Sanibel sponsors blood drive to help Lee County shortage | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANIBEL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The City of Sanibel is sponsoring a blood drive on Thursday at the Sanibel Public Library to help address a need for blood donations in Lee County.<\/p>\n<p>The Lee Health Blood Center&#8217;s Bloodmobile will be in the front parking lot of the library at 770 Dunlop Road from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Donors will receive a mini-physical that includes checks of temperature, blood pressure, heart rate and hemoglobin.<\/p>\n<p>Donors must be at least 17 years old and weigh at least 115 pounds. Appointments are encouraged to reduce wait times and can be scheduled by emailing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/lee\/city-of-sanibel-sponsors-blood-drive-to-help-lee-county-shortage\/mailto:patricia.hotton@mysanibel.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">patricia.hotton@mysanibel.com<\/a> with name, contact information and preferred appointment times.<\/p>\n<p>Appointments start at 8:30 a.m. and run in half-hour increments, with the last appointments at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Walk-ins will be accepted on the day of the blood drive and worked in between confirmed appointments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANIBEL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The City of Sanibel is sponsoring a blood drive on Thursday at the Sanibel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325,115],"class_list":["post-302407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302407","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=302407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}