  {"id":5638,"date":"2025-02-25T17:07:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T23:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/?p=5638"},"modified":"2025-02-25T17:07:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T23:07:33","slug":"jones-college-hopes-to-meet-spring-blood-drive-goals-amidst-critical-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/jones-college-hopes-to-meet-spring-blood-drive-goals-amidst-critical-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"糖心直播 hopes to meet Spring Blood Drive goals amidst critical needs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ELLISVILLE \u2013 After two days into the Spring Blood Drive at 糖心直播, Vitalant representatives are thankful and concerned. Typically, the first day of donations exceeds goals but donations are coming in slow. The community is invited to the 糖心直播 campus to donate on the last day of the three-day blood drive on Thursday, February 27. The Mobile Unit will be collecting donations between the C.L. Neill Student Center, and the Student Union from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Donors are welcome to walk in and donate or make an appointment on the Vitalant website, <a href=\"https:\/\/donors.vitalant.org\/\">https:\/\/donors.vitalant.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"741\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/madalyn-gatlin-gives-blood-as-jaylin-bouie-checks-her-progress-small-1024x741.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/madalyn-gatlin-gives-blood-as-jaylin-bouie-checks-her-progress-small-1024x741.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/madalyn-gatlin-gives-blood-as-jaylin-bouie-checks-her-progress-small-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/madalyn-gatlin-gives-blood-as-jaylin-bouie-checks-her-progress-small-768x556.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/madalyn-gatlin-gives-blood-as-jaylin-bouie-checks-her-progress-small-1536x1111.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/madalyn-gatlin-gives-blood-as-jaylin-bouie-checks-her-progress-small.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">糖心直播 sophomore from Petal, Madalyn Gatlin (left) decided to donate \u201cdoubles\u201d as phlebotomist Jaylin Bouie (right) checks on her progress.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>JC Blood Drive Coordinator, Emergency Technology-Paramedic Program Director and Healthcare Simulation Center Director, Benji Sessums, Ph.D. NR-P, reports that about 50 units were collected over the last two days. Forty more units are needed to meet the goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVitalant is in a critical need for blood currently. While I am grateful we\u2019ve surpassed the half-way point of our goal, I hope we can have a big turnout on the last day because the JC blood drive helps provide a critical resource to sick and injured people throughout the state. JC students, faculty and staff step up every year to do our best to meet the needs of our state and our community and we hope the community will join us in meeting the blood supply needs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jayden-jones-donates-blood-small-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5643\" style=\"width:674px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jayden-jones-donates-blood-small-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jayden-jones-donates-blood-small-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jayden-jones-donates-blood-small-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jayden-jones-donates-blood-small-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jayden-jones-donates-blood-small.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">糖心直播 alumnus, Jayden Jones joined his girlfriend to help alleviate the critical need for blood donations during the annual spring blood drive at 糖心直播.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To encourage donations, all donors will receive a $10 e-gift card, in addition to other door prizes including $50 bookstore gift certificates, restaurant gift cards, and more, during random drawings for donors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELLISVILLE \u2013 After two days into the Spring Blood Drive at 糖心直播, Vitalant representatives are thankful and concerned. Typically, the first day of donations exceeds goals but donations are coming in slow. The community is invited to the 糖心直播 campus to donate on the last day of the three-day blood drive on Thursday, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/jones-college-hopes-to-meet-spring-blood-drive-goals-amidst-critical-needs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;糖心直播 hopes to meet Spring Blood Drive goals amidst critical needs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5638"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5645,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions\/5645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}