MEDIC Regional Blood Center is teaming up with WATE 6 On Your Side , Star 102.1, Food City, and Airport Honda to encourage those in East Tennessee to roll up their sleeves and give lifesaving blood. The annual Roll Up Your Sleeve blood drive is January 15th-19th. The event comes as MEDIC struggles to meet the needs of local hospital. Recently, MEDIC has been unable to meet the increasing demand of units of O negative blood from area hospitals.
MEDIC will be holding blood drives at 30 different Food City stores in 16 counties. To help encourage people to donate blood, one person at each Food City hosted blood drive will win a $50 Food City gift card. At the end of the week, every blood donor will be entered into another drawing for a $500 Food City gift card. Additionally, each person who donates blood will receive a MEDIC Roll Up Your Sleeve t-shirt and a coupon for a free appetizer from Texas Roadhouse.
In addition to the locations at Food City stores, WATE 6 On Your Side is also hosting a MEDIC blood drive on Thursday, January 18th from 11:30am-6:30pm. One donor who gives blood there will also win a $50 Food City gift card. Below is a list of all of the Roll Up Your Sleeve blood drive locations:
Monday, January 15th
Food City Blaine (180 Rutledge Pike) 5:30am-1pm
Food City Dandridge (123 West Highway 25/70) 11am – 6pm
Food City Harriman (1130 South Roane St) 11:30am – 6:30pm
Food City Oliver Springs (508 E Tri-County Blvd) 12pm – 6pm
Food City Newport (181 Western Plaza) 12pm – 6pm
Food City Maryville West (1610 West Broadway Ave) 11am – 6pm
Tuesday, January 16th
Food City Greeneville (905 Snapps Ferry Rd) 11am – 6pm
Food City Jefferson City (1507 Odell Dr) 11am – 6pm
Food City Tazewell (1410 North Broad St) 11am – 6pm
Food City Clinton Hwy (5078 Clinton Hwy) 11am – 6pm
Food City Clinton (507 S Charles G Seivers Blvd) 11am – 6pm
Food City Maryville East (2135 E Broadway) 11am – 6pm
Wednesday, January 17th
Food City Alcoa (131 N Hall Rd) 11am – 6pm
Food City Deane Hill (284 Morrell Rd) 5:30am – 1pm
Food City Maynardville (4344 Maynardville Hwy) 11am – 6pm
Food City E Morris Blvd (1105 E Morris Blvd) 12pm – 7pm
Food City Strawberry Plains (7510 Asheville Hwy) 11am – 6pm
Food City Kodak (2946 Winfield Dunn Pkwy) 11am – 6pm
Thursday, January 18th
WATE-TV 6 (1306 N Broadway) 11:30am-6:30pm
Food City Pigeon Forge (3625 Parkway) 8:30am – 11:30am
Food City Sevierville (741 Dolly Parton Pkwy) 11am – 6pm
Food City Middlesboro KY (102 North 12th St) 11am – 6pm
Food City Crossville (1180 West Ave) 2pm – 6pm
Food City Fairfield (141 Town Centre Dr) 10am – 12:30pm
Food City Oak Ridge (1199 Oak Ridge Tnpk) 11am – 6pm
Friday, January 19th
Food City Loudon (2799 Highway 72 N) 11am – 6pm
Food City South Knoxville (7608 Mountain Grove) 11am – 6pm
Food City Vonore (2120 Hwy 411) 11am – 6pm
Food City Kingston (1000 Ladd Landing Blvd) 11:30am – 6:30pm
Food City Lafollette (2221 Jacksboro Pike) 11am – 6pm
Food City Powell (7350 Clinton Hwy) 11am – 6pm
Donors can watch WATE 6 On Your Side or listen to Star 102.1 all week for more about this event and the impact blood donors are making in East Tennessee. All donors are encouraged to go to medicblood.org/eligibility to determine whether they are eligible to give blood.
