{"id":34975,"date":"2025-07-15T12:42:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T17:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/?p=34975"},"modified":"2025-07-18T14:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:23:46","slug":"knights-of-columbus-holy-family-hosting-blood-drive-august-2nd-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/?p=34975","title":{"rendered":"Knights of Columbus, Holy Family Hosting Blood Drive August 2nd, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>The Knights of Columbus and Holy Family will be holding a Blood Drive on Saturday, August 2nd, 2025 from 8:30 am &#8211; 1:00 pm in Carpenter Hall. From cancer patients to trauma victims, every day more than 10,000 people rely on the generosity of blood donors to survive. The eight different blood types, O+, O-, A+, A-, B+, B-, AB+, and AB-, bring something different to the table for blood donation recipients.<\/p>\n<p>O+ is the most common blood type and anyone with a Rh positive blood type (A+, B+, AB+, O+) can receive O+ blood cells. Since over 75% of the population benefits from O+ donations, it is the most requested by hospitals to have in supply.<\/p>\n<p>O- is the universal type for red blood cells. Anyone can receive O- blood. This blood type is critical for trauma when a victim&#8217;s blood type is not known.<\/p>\n<p>A+ is the second most common blood type. A+ donors are encouraged to donate platelets or red blood cells.<\/p>\n<p>While A+ is one of the most common blood types, only 6.3% of the US population has type A- making it one of the rarest blood types. A- donors can give to A and AB types. However, they can only receive types A- and O-.<\/p>\n<p>B+ is crucial to help treat those who have sickle cell disorder and thalassemia and are in need of regular transfusions.<\/p>\n<p>B- is one of the rarest blood types. However, around 1 in 8 people can receive red blood cells from a B- donor. It can help people who have B-, B+, AB-, and AB+ blood types.<\/p>\n<p>AB is the rarest blood type. Typically only 4% of people have this blood type. However, AB+ and AB- are the universal blood types for plasma. People with AB+ are universal recipients and can safely receive blood from any other blood type.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, no matter your blood type, your donation is incredibly important.<\/p>\n<p>Please, consider signing up at the link below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/donateblood.versiti.org\/...\/drive_schedule\/11605048\">https:\/\/donateblood.versiti.org\/&#8230;\/drive_schedule\/11605048<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We hope to see you on Saturday, August 2nd, 2025!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Knights of Columbus and Holy Family will be holding a Blood Drive on Saturday, August 2nd, 2025 from 8:30 am &#8211; 1:00 pm in Carpenter Hall. From cancer patients to trauma victims, every day more than 10,000 people rely on the generosity of blood donors to survive. The eight different blood types, O+, O-, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[761,1,1045],"tags":[1044,1046],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34975"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34986,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34975\/revisions\/34986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holyfamilysparta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}