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. 


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.  

Southcoast Health System

Southcoast Health System, a not-for-profit charitable organization, is a community based health delivery system with multiple access points, offering an integrated continuum of advanced health services throughout Southeastern Massachusetts and East Bay, Rhode Island. It includes Southcoast Hospitals Group, formed in 1996 from the merger of Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford and Tobey Hospital in Wareham.

Southcoast has more than 40 ancillary facilities, including the Southcoast Health Van, home health care, hospice and infusion services, numerous outpatient medical services, an assisted living facility and a wellness center. For more information visit www.southcoast.org.

Southcoast is one of three community hospitals approved by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to perform open heart surgery and primary angioplasty beginning in Spring 2002.

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