We Are Blood is opening a location in Cedar Park, its fourth permanent blood donation center. The nonprofit hopes the addition will help serve the area's growing needs through 2024.
We Are Blood opened a new donation center in Cedar Park on Wednesday. The nonprofit also organizes mobile blood drives, like one at the state Capitol last month.
Nick Canedo, We Are Blood's vice president of community engagement, said the additional facility was necessary to help the organization play catch up with the area’s growing needs. — including Travis, Hays and Williamson. Canedo said that while the nonprofit would like to put facilities in more counties, it can be expensive.
Canedo said Cedar Park was selected as the new site more than two years ago because of its repeated success with mobile blood drives hosted with area businesses, churches, communities and schools.
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