In honor of National Blood Donor Month, New York Methodist (NYM) encourages donors to give or pledge to give blood to NYM's Blood Bank, either during regular hours for walk-in blood donations or at one of Hospital's many blood drives throughout the month. In 2008, patients at NYM required over 9,000 units of blood.
New York Methodist has one of only four permanent blood donation centers in Brooklyn. Regular donor walk-in hours are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Thursday from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and other hours by appointment. NYM's blood bank is in the lobby of the Hospital's Medical Office Pavillion at 263 Seventh Avenue. The Hospital will also host community blood drives on January 18th at Ahavas-Chesed International, 271 Kingston Avenue, Crown Heights; January 22-24th at the Park Slope Food Co-op, 782 Union Street and January 25th at Congregation Beth Elohim, 274 Garfield Place, Park Slope.
To be eligible to give blood, donors must:
- Be between 17 and 75 years old
- Weigh at least 110 pounds
- Be in good physical health the day you donate and not have donated whole blood in the last 56 days or platelets in the last three days.
Donors, who are 16 years of age and in good health, can donate blood provided that they have parental consent.
For more information, please call 718 780-3644 or email Grace Gehrke, blood donor recruiter at donateblood@nym.org.
