Add a free Southcoast Hospitals' "I'm a Donor" T-shirt to your spring wardrobe

For Immediate Release	Contact: Joyce Faria Brennan
April 1, 2008	508-961-5270
	brennanj@southcoast.org
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — The Southcoast Blood Bank will be giving away a free Southcoast Hospitals' "I'm a Donor" T-shirt on Wednesdays during the month of April.

The T-shirt will be available on Wednesdays at all Southcoast blood donor locations, including the Southcoast Blood Bank at St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford and the Southcoast Health Van.

The Southcoast Blood Bank at St. Luke's Hospital has extended hours on Wednesdays from 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. It is also open on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

The Southcoast Health Van schedule can be found at www.southcoast.org/van/sked.html.

About Southcoast

Southcoast Health System is a community based health delivery system with multiple access points, offering an integrated continuum of health services throughout Southeastern Massachusetts and East Bay, Rhode Island. It includes the three hospitals that make up Southcoast Hospitals Group — Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford and Tobey Hospital in Wareham.

Southcoast provides advanced clinical services, such as open heart surgery, angioplasty and heart rhythm services, neurosurgery, weight loss surgery, orthopedic surgery and advanced imaging services. Southcoast is a not-for-profit charitable organization that depends on the support of the community to provide services.

More information is available onlinwww.southcoast.org.

Media Contact

Joyce Faria Brennan
Public Information Officer
Phone: 508-961-5270
Pager: 508-387-9605
Fax: 508-961-5876
brennanj@southcoast.org