March 1-31: Bearcat Blanket
Thank you for saving local lives!
Donate March 1 – 31 at any Hoxworth Neighborhood Donor Center or select mobile drives to receive your soft & cozy UC Bearcats blanket *while supplies last. Show off your Bearcat pride!
Hoxworth Blood Center, an internationally-recognized leader in transfusion medicine, was founded in 1938 and is currently the oldest operating blood bank in the country. Hoxworth serves more than 30 area hospitals and medical centers and collects more than 100,000 units of blood products to help save the lives of patients in area hospitals.
Hoxworth Blood Center serves over 30 hospitals in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, providing blood and service to the entire region while remaining self-sufficient and financially sound.
As a division of the University of Cincinnati as well as a trusted partner of University of Cincinnati Medical Center and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Hoxworth promotes and supports research to help save lives.
Hoxworth’s patient services division improves the health of individuals through services such as Therapeutic Apheresis, Red Blood Cell Exchange and Photopheresis
I am so thankful that there are amazing, selfless, lifesaving heroes out there that are willing to donate their blood. Without these donations, I wouldn’t be here to celebrate life’s many tiny miracles.
Heather Bennett Blood Recipient
March 27, 2025
Hoxworth Blood Center, University of Cincinnati, and the Cincinnati Reds are teaming up to save local patients, offering an exclusive gift and VIP experience to blood donors this April. Learn how you can get involved.
March 4, 2025
Xuefeng Wang, an associate professor at the University of Cincinnati’s Hoxworth Blood Center, is the recipient of a grant from the National Institutes of Health, as well as corresponding author of recently published research in Nature Communications.
March 3, 2025
This March, you can win big and save lives. Hoxworth Blood Center, University of Cincinnati, is excited to announce a Reds Opening Day ticket drawing, expanded hours at our Central location and a Bearcat blanket for donors all happening this month!