 The Kentucky Blood Center will be hosting a Mother's Day event which started Monday, May 2nd and will run until Saturday, May 7th. Any donor that comes in and donates blood will receive a $15 Texas Roadhouse gift card that they can use at any time. We're hopeful that mothers, hopefully taught a lot of us to give back and we hope folks will come in and make mom proud that they're doing something to help save lives. And then it's up to them how they want to use the gift card, but obviously a good tie-in for us and we think would be fun to do is to use the gift card to take mom out to lunch or dinner. Due to the pandemic, there's been a blood shortage on both the national and local levels for nearly two years. The Blood Center requires 400 donors a day to meet the needs of their hospitals, but is struggling to meet even 75% of that quota. This leaves the available blood supply lasting a day at most. We were fortunate in the first couple months that people really came out and wanted to do something to help give back when the pandemic first started and elective surgeries were canceled then, but as soon as elective surgeries resumed, you know, the need for blood or the demand for blood from the 70-plus local hospitals we serve has really been at an all-time high while the donation part of it has really taken a step back. So we have been in a real shortage for the last two years. Even as, you know, knock on wood, we start to return to normal. We haven't seen blood donation levels return to the pre-pandemic rates that we're used to. We are Pikeville Medical Center, and we are an amazing place to work. Health care heroes of all types work here. All who deserve great rewards. So while our heroes are working hard to take care of our patients and visitors, we are taking care of them with top-tier benefits, higher pay rates, and great sign-on bonuses. So join our team today. So what are you waiting for? Apply today. Incredible opportunities await at PMCjobs.org. The Kentucky Blood Center encourages anyone and everyone to donate blood. So anyone can donate blood. There's obviously things that that limits certain people, you know, if you've had, you know, certain medical conditions will obviously limit folks from donating, certain medications, prevent people from donating. The thing that I would want to tell folks is even if you have been deferred in the past or you think you probably aren't a good candidate to donate, but you're interested in doing it, give us a chance. I would go to our website with kywbloodcenter.org. We've got some good educational materials on there as to who can donate and who can't. People seeking to donate blood can go to the Pikeville Donor Center or look out for one of their mobile drives in the area. We understand that coming in and donating blood, it takes a little bit of time to do. We know it takes time out of people's busy schedules. The donation process really is only about 35 to 45 minutes, but again we understand that's time out of your schedule. So we hope that the Texas Roadhouse gift card is something fun that makes it worth your time in addition to saving three lives, but it's something you can walk away with and go take mom. Go take mom for lunch or dinner somewhere down the line, even as soon as Sunday for Mother's Day. Other events coming up in the month include a giveaway for general admissions tickets to King's Island when you donate at the Pikeville Donor Center between May 26th and May 28th, as well as registration for a 2022 Toyota RAF 4 giveaway when you donate blood between May 23rd and September 10th. For more information on who can and should donate blood, visit kywbloodcenter.org. For Mountaintop News, I'm Kelsey Dean.