 What makes for excellence in heart care? It starts with one of the most amazing teams of heart surgeons and cardiologists that I've seen assembled under one roof and the region's leading technology in a new $40 million facility. This is the nationally recognized Heart and Vascular Institute of Eastern Kentucky at Pikeville Medical Center. On Tuesday, March 14th, Kentucky Blood Center will be visiting Pikeville Medical Center for a mobile blood drive. As always, anyone is welcome to donate and provide blood for those in need. Kentucky Blood Center Director of Media and Branding Eric Lindsey talks more about the event and the partnership with PMC. We're bringing the blood drive to you to make it as convenient and as accessible as possible for people to get blood. We actually go to Pikeville Medical Center about once every two months, so we're there pretty frequently. I think what makes the Pikeville Medical Center a pretty special drive is that we are the exclusive blood provider to the Pikeville Medical Center, you know, so the products that they're getting to serve patients in the Pikeville area and surrounding counties, you know, it's coming from drives like this. Lindsey stresses the importance of educating people about the need for blood and acquiring new donors. Anyone who participates will receive a Hold Your Horses Give Blood t-shirt. We're always evaluating ways to get new donors in the door. I think the, you know, the million-dollar question for Kentucky Blood Center and blood centers across the country is how can we resonate with younger donors better than we are? And that's an ongoing question and conversation here in our office and in blood centers across the country. We do accept walk-ins, and so, yeah, hey, look, if you happen to come by that day and you hadn't made plans to sign up, yeah, we'll accept walk-ins, but I will say that we always encourage, you know, folks to make an appointment ahead of time so that we can service you and get you in and out as fast as we can. So if you're looking to make an appointment for that drive, head to KYBloodcenter.org. You can type in Pikeville or type in Pike County and that drive will show up, or you can give us a call at 800-775-2522, and we will get you on the books. Reporting from Outant Top News, I'm Nick Cullum.