FARMINGTON – Edgewood Rehabilitation and Living Center and the American Red Cross Blood Services will be making history on Monday, July 14.

For the first time ever, the Red Cross’s new Mobil Donor Coach will be open for donations at the Edgewood Rehabilitation and Living Center, 221 Fairbanks Road, Route 4.

“This will be one of the very first times the Mobile Bus will be open for blood donations,” says Tom Miller of the American Red Cross, “and we are excited to be teaming with Edgewood Rehabilitation and Living Center for this event.” It will be the first time that Edgewood Rehabilitation and Living Center has hosted a blood drive with the American Red Cross.

With the summer months being an especially difficult time to draw enough volunteer blood donors to meet collection goals, the Red Cross Blood Services has issued a call for both first time and experienced blood donors in Farmington area. The drive is vital to the blood supply so that the American Red Cross can continue to meet the transfusion needs of hospitals throughout Maine, New England and the United States.

Join Edgewood Rehabilitation and Living Center and the American Red Cross for this exciting event. To make an appointment or for more information, contact Barbara Blake at the Edgewood Rehabilitation and Living Center at 778-3386 or Tom Miller at the American Red Cross at 1-800-482-0743.