The Dietrich School’s very own Dean Adam Leibovich was spotted donating blood at an American Red Cross Blood Drive, which was in partnership with HBO Max’s TV show The Pitt. Dean Leibovich is a board member of the American Red Cross Southwestern Pennsylvania Chapter and gave a Power Red donation, where a special machine is used to allow you to safely donate two units of red blood cells during one donation while returning your plasma and platelets to you.
From the American Red Cross:
“The American Red Cross is teaming up with the Emmy®-winning Max Original medical drama series THE PITT, to remind donors they don’t need to be in the emergency room to 'go help save some lives.” Rolling up a sleeve to give a lifesaving blood donation could be the key to a patient’s survival.
In hospitals across Pittsburgh, the work never stops – and the need for blood is constant. Every day, healthcare workers and patients rely on volunteer blood donors to help save lives. Blood donations to the Red Cross help ensure new parents, premature babies, cancer patients, and accident victims have access to safe, lifesaving blood.
Eligible blood donors are urged to give to help keep the blood supply stable for patients this spring. In thanks, presenting donors at these blood drives will get an exclusive T-shirt, while supplies last.”
You can always donate blood to the American Red Cross, but if you’d like to be a part of this current blood drive, you have one more chance on Monday, April 20, from 9 am to 2:30 pm at the Duquesne University Student Union, located at 1243 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA.