Have a Heart, Save a Life!

Important October 22 Blood Drive Update –
Location Moved & Extended a Day

Due to limited availability at Community Blood Center, our October blood drive has been re-imagined. While they’re unable to come on-site, we can still keep our donation cycles steady and make a big impact by donating at a nearby center! Here are the two closest options to keep the donations flowing:

 

Olathe Entertainment District (21st or 22nd)
16465 West 119th Street
Olathe, KS 66061

Times Square Shopping Center (21st Only)
10568 Metcalf Ave
Overland Park, KS 66212

 When you donate on October 21st or 22nd, please use Beth Torah’s group code – 7B – and we’ll still get credit!

Thank you to everyone who was able to donate in July!

We beat our collection goal by four units and had five first time donors!

Scroll down for our upcoming Blood Drive dates.

Community Blood Center serves over 60 hospitals in over 70 counties in Missouri and Kansas.

In March of 2023, Community Blood Center declared the first blood emergency of the year. According to our own Jim Kaplan, the shortages have not abated. The blood emergency is due to several evolving factors including cold and flu season, a high number of lapsed blood donors and a decrease in first-time donors. In January, CBC received 2,000 fewer blood donations than the year prior and blood donations are below hospital and patient needs. The number of blood donations still are not back to pre-pandemic levels.

Compounding the problem is a continued lag in first-time and youth donors, which remain about half of pre-pandemic levels.

If you are unable to make it to a Beth Torah Blood Drive, please consider donating another time. Watch here for our next drive, or visit one of CBC's 7 Community Blood Center locations. If you give the code: 7B when you arrive at the registration desk, your donation will count towards the Beth Torah.

Upcoming Beth Torah Blood Drives:

Fall Blood Drive: Tuesday-Wednesday, October 21-22 (off-site)

Winter Blood Drive: Wednesday, January 14 (register here)

Spring Blood Drive: Wednesday, May 6 (register here)

Why Give Blood?


Community Blood Center must collect almost 600 units of blood daily to meet the needs of area hospital patients. As there is no substitute for blood, we rely on volunteer donors like you to supply the life-saving blood and blood components to hospitals in Kansas and Missouri.

38 CBT Members & Friends donated blood at our last Summer Blood Drive, including Rabbi Mark Levin and Jim Decker! Let’s get even more this summer!

Thanks to Jennifer Savner Levinson for organizing the Blood Drive for the Community Blood Center of Kansas City!