{"id":226249,"date":"2026-06-23T22:53:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226249\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T22:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:53:36","slug":"reading-hospital-in-need-of-donors-amid-critical-blood-shortage-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226249\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Hospital in need of donors amid critical blood shortage | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; The Reading Hospital posted online that the region is facing a critical shortage of blood, especially Type-O blood.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are asking anyone who&#8217;s able and eligible to donate blood to the Miller Keystone Blood Center.<\/p>\n<p>The center has a location in Bern Township.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Cross says it&#8217;s seen a 20-percent drop in the blood supply in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Summer shortages are often linked to schools being on break and people taking vacations.<\/p>\n<p>To schedule a donation or learn more, contact Miller-Keystone Blood Center:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; The Reading Hospital posted online that the region is facing a critical shortage of blood,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2567,24152,47886,33277,128,130,129,2791,5888,98221],"class_list":["post-226249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-bern-township","tag-blood-donation","tag-blood-shortage","tag-miller-keystone-blood-center","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-hospital","tag-red-cross","tag-type-o-blood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226249","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=226249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}