BRIGHTON TWP. A local Red Cross facility won t be accepting one type of blood donations anymore.
The Red Cross Greater Alleghenies Region will no longer accept platelet collections at its Beaver and Greensburg locations. With a decrease in planned platelet distributions, the Red Cross needs to adjust its operations in order to deliver cost-effective and reliable products and services for patients in need, the organization said in a statement. This decision will not affect the availability and timely distribution of blood and blood products to our hospital partners and patients.
Blood platelets are small colorless cell fragments that form clots and stop or prevent bleeding. The cells are made in human bone marrow and used to help control bleeding in a recipient after surgeries such as organ transplants or for patients who don t have enough of their own platelets. Raising a patient s platelet count reduces the chances of dangerous or deadly bleeding.
BRIGHTON TWP. It s time to get in line.
Heritage Valley Health System quietly opened its online registration for COVID-19 vaccinations for those 65 and older or those with health conditions. The online registration system allows people to sign-up to make appointments for both doses of the Moderna vaccine at one of three upcoming vaccination clinics,
Within the first three hours the system was live, 4,153 people had gotten in line to make an appointment, registering with their information to be contacted to make an appointment at either the Dome at the Community College of Beaver County or at a Heritage Valley building in Robinson Township, said Norm Mitry, President and CEO of Heritage Valley Health System.
BEAVER The long and winding road to Beaver County s first property reassessment in 40 years is about halfway complete.
About 28,000 of the 60,000 residential parcels in the county have been surveyed through a door-to-door process, chief county solicitor Garen Fedeles said. Data collectors have been going door-to-door since May surveying the size and number of rooms in homes across the county. Currently, collectors are working on assessing properties in Center Township, Fedeles said. They re shooting to get this part of the process done by July, he said. They re gathering information that is then brought back for the reassessment calculations to be done.