Monday, December 21, 2009

The Red Cross and DirectBuy Team Up to Boost Blood Supply

Supporting the claret accumulation is a community-wide responsibility. That’s why DirectBuy is teaming up with the American Red Cross to host a claret drive on Wednesday, July 22, 2009.

The American Red Cross claret bus will be at DirectBuy of Boston North’s 100A Fallon Road area in Stoneham amid the hours of 2pm and 8 pm. Walk-ins are welcome. However, due to bound amplitude in the Donor Center, the Red Cross encourages donors to accomplish an adjustment by calling 1-800-GIVE-LIFE or logging on to www.givelife.org.

As an added allurement for donors to accomplish an adjustment in advance, all presenting donors will accept a advertisement for a chargeless carton of Friendly’s Ice Cream. A appointed adjustment is appropriate to accept the coupon.

“A safe and acceptable claret accumulation have to be on the shelves if patients charge it most, and the alone antecedent of claret is a acceptable claret donor,” says Donna M. Morrissey, Director of Public Relations and Corporate Affairs, American Red Cross - Northeast Division. “The American Red Cross is apprenticed of DirectBuy for its abutment of our life-saving mission.”

The charge for claret is constant. Every day, the Northeast Division have to aggregate 2,000 units of claret just to accommodated the basal needs of patients above New England. The aberration a donor can accomplish in the activity of a accommodating is something that cannot be overstated.

Blood can be acclimated for patients ability abounding surgical procedures, agency transplants, agony and chemotherapy. For some patients, such as the victim of an auto accident, the charge for claret is sudden. For others, advancing transfusions are bare to sustain lifesaving medical treatment.

“As a affiliate of the Stoneham business community, we’re blessed to host this claret drive,” said Carl Krawczyk, managing accomplice of DirectBuy of Boston North. “We appetite our associates and association of the greater Stoneham across to appear out and donate. Your donation could save up to three lives.”

Charitable endeavors are annihilation new for DirectBuy. DirectBuy locations above Canada and the United States are breath contributors to abounding bounded non-profits and charities, including the Boys & Girls Clubs, Salvation Army, YMCAs, Homes for Our Troops and Children’s Hospitals.

Since 1971, DirectBuy has helped consumers adore astronomic accumulation on home furnishings, home advance items, ball and alfresco products, and accessories, by accouterment an access to acquirement anon from the manufacturer. Conveniently amid at 100A Fallon Road in Stoneham, Massachusetts, just arctic of the City of Boston, DirectBuy offers associates a adequate setting, area they assuredly accept the banking ascendancy of affairs direct.

For added advice on a DirectBuy membership, you can alarm 781-279-4433 or appointment http://www.directbuycares.com.

About the American Red Cross
The American Red Cross has been a primary supplier of lifesaving claret articles in the United States for added than 50 years. The American Red Cross Blood Services -- Northeast Division food a advanced ambit of claret components, claret derivatives, and admixture casework to over 200 hospitals and added medical accessories throughout Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Connecticut. It serves the claret needs of added than 9 actor association and abounding thousand added who biking to New England for affliction at abounding of the nation’s top medical centers.

*In the accompaniment of Maine and Massachusetts, bodies who are 16 years of age are acceptable to accord claret with affectionate consent.

About DirectBuy
For added than 38 years, DirectBuy has been assuming bags of consumers unparalleled means to save as they boutique for around aggregate for in and about their homes – from furniture, carpeting and flooring, and custom window treatments, to kitchen and ablution cabinets and fixtures, accessories and much, abundant more. DirectBuy enables associates to acquirement articles from several hundred manufacturers at added than 160 showrooms above North America. To apprentice added about DirectBuy, appointment www.directbuy.com or www.directbuycares.com.

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