{"id":225370,"date":"2026-06-23T00:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T00:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225370\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T00:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T00:19:10","slug":"reading-hospital-issues-urgent-call-for-blood-donors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225370\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Hospital issues urgent call for blood donors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading Hospital is calling on blood donors to help address a critical regional shortage of blood products, especially Type O blood.<\/p>\n

Reading Hospital, the only trauma center in Berks County, relies on a stable blood inventory to provide lifesaving care when every second counts, officials said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile all donations are welcome, Type O donors are especially needed at this time,\u201d the post stated. \u201cEvery donation can make a difference for trauma patients, surgical patients, cancer patients, and others who depend on blood products every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

To schedule a donation or for more information, contact Miller-Keystone Blood Center at 1-800-B-A-DONOR or GIVEaPINT.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Berks, Miller-Keystone has a donor center at 2745A Leiscz\u2019s Bridge Road, Bern Township.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reading Hospital is calling on blood donors to help address a critical regional shortage of blood products, especially…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,1057,182,139,28,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-225370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-health","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}