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Blood shortage prompts widespread call for donations

by KIANNA GARDNER
Daily Inter Lake | June 29, 2021 7:00 AM

Facing a critical blood shortage, the nonprofit transfusion medicine organization that supplies dozens of hospitals and clinics throughout Montana, Idaho and Washington with blood products recently urged individuals to donate blood as soon as possible to their local clinic.

The organization, Vitalant, has approximately 120 donation centers across the nation — including three in Montana — that supply more than 900 hospitals and clinics with blood products...

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