{"id":84257,"date":"2025-12-11T07:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84257\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T07:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:56:09","slug":"carter-bloodcare-lake-highlands-ymca-hosting-blood-drive-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84257\/","title":{"rendered":"Carter BloodCare, Lake Highlands YMCA hosting blood drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/ymcadallas.org\/locations\/lake-highlands-family-ymca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Highlands Family YMCA<\/a> is hosting a blood drive in collaboration with one of North Texas\u2019 largest blood providers next week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ymca-scaled.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97915\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ymca-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-97915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The donation event will occur out of a Carter BloodCare bus at the Lake Highlands YMCA. Photo courtesy Lake Highlands YMCA<\/p>\n<p>From 3-7 p.m. Dec. 15, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carterbloodcare.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carter BloodCare<\/a> bus will set up shop at the Lake Highlands YMCA, located off Stults Road. The Y has hosted events with Carter BloodCare in the past, <a href=\"https:\/\/lakehighlands.advocatemag.com\/2020\/11\/24\/a-donor-at-lake-highlands-ymcas-next-blood-drive-could-win-a-new-car\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">including one with a car raffle<\/a>. While there aren\u2019t any sedans on the line this time around, donors will receive a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carterbloodcare.org\/promotions\/november-december-2025-blanket\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fleece blanket<\/a>, snack and drink.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatpartners.org\/donor\/schedules\/drive_schedule\/162553\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sign-ups<\/a> are available through Dec. 14, with walk-ins also welcome. Slots are available in 15-minute increments.<\/p>\n<p>Carter BloodCare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carterbloodcare.org\/who-we-are\/our-history\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">formed in 1998 after<\/a> the merger of BloodCare and Carter Blood Center, two long-standing North Texas community blood providers. The organization provides \u200b\u200bmore than 440,000 units of blood and blood components to area medical facilities annually.<\/p>\n<p>The United States\u2019 blood supply has trickled in recent years, with the National Blood Service having declared a national blood shortage<a href=\"https:\/\/www.redcrossblood.org\/local-homepage\/news\/article\/blood-shortage-explained-rcbs.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> as recently as August 2024<\/a>. Supply often hit lows due to increased incident-related<a href=\"https:\/\/americasblood.org\/abc-news\/summers-hidden-challenge-the-critical-need-for-blood-donations\/#:~:text=Blood%20donations%20typically%20decrease%20by%20about%2020%25,Deadly%20Days%20of%20Summer\u201d%20by%20trauma%20professionals.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0demand<\/a> during the summer months and seasonal illnesses in the winter months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lake Highlands Family YMCA is hosting a blood drive in collaboration with one of North Texas\u2019 largest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-84257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}