Hi Friends,
My Coach Yury is currently a patient at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. His treatment for Lymphoma requires regular blood and platelet transfusions.
Yury and his family would deeply appreciate your donation of blood and/or platelets and hopes you will ask others you know to donate. Donations not used by Yury will be released for use by other patients many of whom are children.
Designated donations for Yury Gelman must be made in the Blood Donor Room of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Please visit www.mskcc.org/blooddonations for complete information about donor eligibility and the donation process for blood or platelets.
For answers to questions and to schedule an appointment that is convenient for you please CALL:
Joe Licata @ 212-639-8177
Manager, Blood Donor Program
or
The Blood Donor Room – 212-639-7648
Appointments are necessary- All blood types are acceptable
The Blood Donor Room Is Open Every Day
Fri Sat Sun Mon 8:30am – 3:00pm
Tues Wed Th 8:30am – 7:00pm
1250 First Avenue (between 67th/68th Streets) NYC – Schwartz Building lobby
FREE PARKING: At either the MSKCC garage 433 East 66th Street off York Avenue or the Somerset Garage 1365 York Avenue 72nd Street at York Ave. (Entrance on 72nd Street) Parking will be validated in the Donor Room.
The process for donating whole blood takes approximately 1 hour
The process for donating platelets takes about 2 ½ hours.
