ScrippAssists will hold a San Diego Blood Bank (SDBB) blood drive on the California campus on Thursday, August 10, from 9 AM to 2:30 PM.
Donors are asked to make an appointment on the SDBB website. Walk-in donors will be welcomed. Guidelines and eligibility requirements are also listed on the blood bank website. Donors should bring photo identification, a record of medications they currently take and a list of locations visited outside the United States in the past three years.
The SDBB bloodmobile will be located in the parking lot adjacent to the Skaggs/MBB building, 10596 N. Torrey Pines Road. All donors will automatically be entered into a prize raffle. For further information on the blood drive, contact project coordinator Leslie Madden at lmadden@scripps.edu.
The next onsite immunization clinic on the California campus will be held Wednesday, August 2, from 9:30 to 11 AM, 3040 Science Park Road, Room 105 (located within the Normal Blood Donor Services suite- Room 101). Appointments are not needed.
Conducted by Sharp Rees-Stealy staff, the clinic will provide hepatitis B vaccination free of charge to all TSRI employees. Environmental Health & Safety Occupational Medicine must pre-authorize all other procedures based on the employee's working conditions. These procedures include tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (Tdap) vaccines and other titers, immunizations and procedures.
To receive consideration at the next TSRI Institutional Biosafety Committee, registration documents must be submitted to Environmental Health and Safety by Friday, July 28, via email to rachellv@scripps.edu. The meeting will be held Wednesday, August 9, 2:30 to 3:30 PM, building 3301, P2 conference room.
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