Second Drive: Twice as Nice!
Congratulations to the Health Assistant shop for the work they did to make sure that the second blood drive of the school year, held on January 14th, was a huge success!
This blood drive comes at a very critical time. Vitalant (Central Blood Bank) was down 21,000 donors from last year. There is critical blood shortages nation-wide. The Health Assistant shop is so happy and honored to be part of this initiative to save lives to not only complete strangers, but to our neighbors and family in our community. The blood donated from our LCCTC community remains in the Pittsburgh region and is supplied to hospitals such as: UPMC Jameson, Butler Memorial Hospital, Sharon Regional Medical Center and Grove City Medical Center — just to name a few.
The HA students work very hard for these drives. They obtain all of the sign ups, put the signs around the school and place every student/staff onto the roster. It is truly student-led. Along with impacting over 187 individuals as a result of this blood drive, the blood drive allowed the HA students to be able to obtain clinical experience with registration, communication skills, filing, observing for post donor reaction and obtaining post donation vital signs.
Thank you ALL for another wonderful blood drive!!!! We could never do this without all of you!
A special thank you goes to:
Miss Price and the RT students who provide the pizza and have so much hospitality! All I heard from her students all day was "Is there anything else that you need?"
Mrs. Pasterik for the yearbook photos. Many students do not have ID to donate. She lets us use the Clark's studio proof photos to allow for ID of any student who took a photo this year. Without that many students would be turned away for not having a valid ID.
Mrs. Rylott, who provides the list of birth dates for every student in the building. That is used with the photo's to allow of proof of age of the students.
Mr. George Dudich and Mr. John Hiler, who worked like a well oiled machine today, making sure all equipment such as chairs/tables/garbage etc is taken care of. Along with George and John are our afternoon shift custodial staff, who brought the materials to the gym last night.
Our office staff, who whenever we need anything whether it be more pens, to look up where a student is, or to do any other odd end miscellaneous task is always willing to do so on these hectic days.
To all of our staff members. Without your support to permit students to come down, we could never ever be as successful as we are. Thank you all for being so adaptable and willing to permit students to come down.
To our staff members who were able and willing to donate today: Mrs. Brown, Mr. Dudich, Mrs. Cook , Mrs. Sipe, Mr. Milanovich, Miss Marino (first time donator), and Mrs. O'Donnell.
To Mayor Chris Frye (accompanied by his adorable daughter) who took time from his busy schedule to join our LCCTC family in donating blood. We hope to see much more of you in the weeks, months, and years to come!
And of course, our fearless students, who rise to the occasion of a blood drive greater than any school I know of!!
Last but certainly not least, to my right arm the day of the blood drive, Mrs. O'Donnell. Who keeps my head on straight during these blood drives! (and does not get mad at me too much).
