The leader of the organization supplying blood to 80% of Iowa hospitals says there’s been a 30% decline in people under the age of 30 donating blood since 2020 and that’s a major challenge in maintaining an adequate supply. Stacy Sime, CEO of LifeServe...
Earlier this week the American Red Cross announced there was a national blood supply crisis, but a spokesman for the organization that supplies blood to over 175 hospitals in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Illinois says the LifeServe Blood Center hasn’t quite...
Two weeks after putting out an urgent appeal for Iowans to give blood, officials with the American Red Cross say the situation has dramatically worsened and they’re declaring the blood shortage is now at the crisis stage. Josh Murray, spokesman for the...
