Blood Drive at Bob Hope Airport
via Bob Hope Airport (bolding by yours truly...):
Airport Mounts Campaign to Make 11th Annual Airport Blood Drive Largest in City
WHAT: The Bob Hope Airport business community – including the airport, Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel and Convention Center, Yahoo!, several airlines, and companies within the Media Studios North campus are teaming up for a huge blood drive to benefit patients in hospitals throughout the San Fernando Valley – including Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank and Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills. The event is expected to be the largest blood drive in the history of the city of Burbank.
Participants will have great views of airplanes taking off from and landing on the runway as they donate blood in the Bob Hope Airport’s Skyroom. All participants will also be entered into drawings for several roundtrip airline tickets and hotel stays, courtesy of JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines, US Airways and the Airport Marriott. Employees from Yahoo!, Technicolor, Central Staging, GMAC and many other businesses in the airport business community will be shuttled throughout the day between the Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel and Bob Hope Airport.
WHEN: Tuesday, July 24th & Wednesday, July 25th 2007 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
(Bulk of employees donating blood will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.)
WHERE: Bob Hope Airport Skyroom, 2nd Floor, 2627 Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA 91505
WHY: Southern California experiences blood shortages every year during the summer months as fewer people donate blood during these months due to vacations and summer recess at schools. The Providence Blood Donor Center works in collaboration with local businesses and community groups to gather blood products to meet the transfusion needs of patients throughout the San Fernando Valley.
Studies show that one person in the United States needs blood every two seconds. While only 5 percent of eligible donors in the United States donate their blood, this figure is even lower in Southern California where only 3 percent of eligible donors donate blood.