This holiday season, LifeServe Blood Center is urging families in South Dakota to come together and create a new and meaningful tradition: donating blood as a family to save lives in their communities. LifeServe Blood Center is the lifeline for more than 160 hospitals primarily in Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Hospitals in your community have chosen LifeServe as their sole provider of blood and blood products, meaning that when you donate blood with LifeServe, you can save lives in your neighborhood. As a community- based blood center, LifeServe only hosts blood drives in the communities where that blood will go back into the area hospitals.

As we enter the winter months, inclement weather, holidays, and travel can keep donors from coming in to donate. Tragedy can strike at a moment’s notice, especially amidst winter weather. “You never know when you, your neighbor, a family member, or a friend may need a lifesaving blood transfusion; and when they do, those blood products will come from blood donors who give with LifeServe Blood Center.” shared Shay Willis, Director of PR & Marketing.

LifeServe Blood Center held a blood drive in Wagner Tuesday, December 5, and had a GREAT turnout! 31 donors were able to donate and 37 units of life saving blood were collected! Thank you to every donor who participated in the drive and helped to boost the LOCAL blood supply! The units donated at the blood drive can help save up to 111 lives!

We also celebrate the following donor(s) who hit milestones with their most recent donation: 01 Galloneer Malory Johannsen 03 Galloneer Loretta Kokes 04 Galloneer Allan Driesen 04 Galloneer Larry Lucas 06 Galloneer Karen Soulek 07 Galloneer Chad Kreeger 08 Galloneer Jerome Seiner 10 Galloneer John Crisman Special thanks to Marlene Stone coordinating the blood drive. Additional gratitude to the Wagner Fire & Rescue Team for the use of the site. We could not help patients in our 160+ hospitals, without communities like Wagner and your amazing volunteers and donors!

The next Wagner Community blood drive will be held Tuesday, January 30 at the Wagner Fire Hall from 12:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

To schedule an appointment click: https://donor.lifeservebloodcenter. org/donor/schedules/drive_schedule/181679 Thanks to everyone who came out to show their support. Be sure to text ‘LIFESERVE’ to 999-777 to make your next appointment and we look forward to seeing you next time!