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Cookeville Regional Medical Center has no plans of canceling or postponing elective surgeries amid low blood inventory across the region. Blood Assurance announced late Thursday they had asked the hospitals served across the region to postpone elective surgeries until the blood supply is replenished. Snow and cold have cancelled blood drives and kept residents from visiting the blood center. A ... Read More »

Cookeville’s Blood Assurance office will be open extended hours Thursday through Saturday for blood donations. Blood Assurance said there is a critical need right now for O-positive, O-negative and A-positive blood types. They are sitting at under a half days supply for most blood types, when in an ideal situation they would have a five-day supply. Because of the need, ... Read More »

Blood Assurance has reached critically low levels for almost all blood types, with zero units of O-positive blood on the shelf. Donor Recruiter Trudy Cody said she is encouraging all residents to participate in local blood drives to build the supply. “We need all types of blood, but we especially need the O negative and O positive blood types,” Cody ... Read More »