{"id":228632,"date":"2026-06-26T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/228632\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T09:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:00:29","slug":"reading-hospital-hosts-emergency-blood-drive-to-address-critical-shortage-of-type-o-blood-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/228632\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Hospital hosts emergency blood drive to address critical shortage of Type-O blood | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8212; Community members and employees at Reading Hospital are rolling up their sleeves to help boost the region&#8217;s blood supply.<\/p>\n<p>An emergency blood drive took place at the hospital in West Reading Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve been reporting this week, the hospital says there&#8217;s a critical shortage of donated blood, especially Type-O blood.<\/p>\n<p>             <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/berks\/reading-hospital-preparing-emergency-blood-drive-amid-urgent-need-for-blood\/article_2eb03dd4-527a-4610-8602-3685adafbfea.html\" class=\"tnt-asset-link\" aria-label=\"Reading Hospital preparing emergency blood drive amid urgent need for blood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>            Reading Hospital preparing emergency blood drive amid urgent need for blood<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donations typically drop this time of year due to schools being on break and people taking vacations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8212; Community members and employees at Reading Hospital are rolling up their sleeves to help boost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-228632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228632","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=228632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}