Clara Barton once said, "Your children and your children's children will need the Red Cross." Generations of area residents have relied on the Greater Alleghenies Region of the American Red Cross Blood Services to provide safe, reliable, quality blood products and transfusion services. More importantly, some generations live on because of the Red Cross.

It is only through the help and support of area donors, sponsors and volunteers that we are able to provide these crucial services to our community. That's why we invite you to become part of the future in blood banking and our new headquarters project.

The Greater Alleghenies Region's new facility project is underway, with plans calling for a 128,000-square-foot, two-story building. The facility will allow for implementation of exciting new technologies, such as pathogen inactivation, which presents the potential to render blood products incapable of transmitting infectious disease.

Construction of the Johnstown-based facility is a part of a national American Red Cross ten-year Strategic Capital Improvement Plan (SCIP). The budget for the new Greater Alleghenies Region facility project has been set at $22.9 million.