Health & wellness
BY HEATHER ALDRIDGE
Health & Wellness Guide
2025
Readers, welcome to your annual CI Health & Wellness Edition! This brand-new guide features the latest updates and resources on health and wellness in your community. Each story was written by our team of local journalists. In this year’s edition, learn more about the o erings from community dermatologists and hear from an expert on how IV therapy works and is tailored to each individual. On behalf of Community Impact , we wish you a happy and healthy start to 2025.
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Carter BloodCare, a blood donation center in Tarrant County, provides blood to more than 200 medical facilities in over 50 counties throughout North, Central and East Texas, per its website. The impact Donating one pint of blood can help three patients after whole blood is separated into three components: red blood cells, plasma and platelets. Red blood cells treat anemia and blood loss; Blood donations continue to aid Tarrant County residents • Scanning the donation into the Blood Informa- tion Management System and testing for any infectious agents • Storing the blood in a centrifuge, which is spun to separate blood into its three parts • Storing the three blood parts in specialized equipment • Labeling blood components and sending them to hospitals and medical facilities. Get involved In 2024, First Grapevine Methodist Church received enough blood to save 324 lives from 81 whole blood units, 12 double red units and 3 plasma units. According to America’s Blood Centers: One in seven hospitalized patients will require a transfusion during their stay Transfusions are needed in one out of every 83 childbirths
platelets help patients going through chemother- apy, heart surgeries or those who have sustained head injuries; and plasma aids patients with liver failure, severe infections or serious burns. Carter BloodCare collects and processes blood, specializes in laboratory testing and stores and distributes the blood components. Once a donor gives blood, the Carter BloodCare team puts the blood in temperature-controlled coolers and transports it to its processing center, where specialists complete the following steps:
25% of Tarrant County residents’ blood supply is from local high school drives
First Grapevine Methodist Church holds four blood drives a year in partnership with Carter BloodCare. Miriam Ward, the blood drive coordi- nator for First Grapevine, said the church’s blood drives for 2025 will be on Jan. 12, April 17, Oct. 19 and July 20. “[Donating] saves lives,” Ward said. “... Twice, in 2005 and 2009, I had to receive blood transfu- sions, and I lived because other people donated.”
25% of the U.S. blood supply is used to support cancer patients
62% of the U.S. population is eligible to donate, yet only 3% nationwide donate blood
SOURCE: CARTER BLOODCARE COMMUNITY IMPACT
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