American Red Cross Blood and Platelet Donation Centers are conveniently located within your community. With consistent days and hours of operation, it’s easy to find a donation appointment that works best for you. This location offers whole blood and platelet donation opportunities.
Based on 17 reviews, this Blood donation center has received a rating of 2.5 stars
Address: 606 Albemarle Square, Charlottesville, VA 22901
Located In: Albemarle Square Shopping Center
Phone: (800) 733-2767
Website: https://www.redcrossblood.org/local-homepage/location/charlottesville-donation-center.html
Hours
| Tuesday | 11 AM–7 PM |
| Wednesday | 11 AM–7 PM |
| Thursday | 9 AM–5 PM |
| Friday | 6:30 AM–2:30 PM |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | Closed |
| Monday
(Columbus Day)
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Closed |
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Reviews
Ethan Gonzales
I’ve donated gallons of blood for over ten years. I donated while I lived in Michigan, while I served all over the US in the active duty Army, and when I moved to Virginia. I have O- blood (universal donor), so it’s very precious in times of great need. I always give when I can. This donation center sucks. Bad. I’ve driven here six times and have given blood three times I believe. First time, my blood pressure was too high. I checked the American red cross site, which told me the donation center was wrong to turn me away. The next time, they took my pulse and said because it was over 100 bpm, they could not take me. Would not even allow me to get it down or retest me. By the way, that reading is based on the worker, so I don’t even know if it was accurate in the first place.
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Kimberly R
TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. Don’t even bother going through the doors. They look at you like “Why are you bothering me?”.
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Tharadon Malasri
This blood donation place really disappointed me. I purposely brought my mom to donate blood as she had intended to donate last month. The people who served my mom that day recommended her well. But on that day, she didn’t have all the paperwork so she couldn’t donate blood. On July 13, my mom and I brought the required documents to fill in the paperwork they needed. But today’s response from them greatly disappointed me and my mom. They said to me and my mom “People who can’t speak English can’t donate blood here,” which made me and my mom very disappointed. I don’t know what else to say.
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Kat Morse
Drove 35 minutes on my day off to give blood that their practically harassing me for and they tell me they don’t have time because they’re short staffed. I get it, stuff happens but there is no excuse for not notifying people if you’re unable to meet your time slots.
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George Batten
This blood donation center has been consistently disappointing since Red Cross took over. They make it very difficult and burdensome to donate blood, especially for platelet donors. They require you to arrive on time, but the last time I donated they had me wait for about an hour and a half while they fumbled around setting up a chair. Instead of going here, consider donating blood at a mobile site.
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John Norin
Red Cross Blood donation center in Albemarle Square:
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William Wallace
I’m with the reviewer who mentioned the robo calls. I worked for months to get on the do not call list when they were Virginia Blood Services. Then Red Cross buys VBS and somehow my number goes back onto the ‘call and bother mercilessly’ list.
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Mario Brown
I’ve donated every two months since 2013, I’ve got loads of points built up, get their app for help remembering and setting up appointments. Staff is a perfectly lovely group of people, honestly why would you review a blood donation place negatively? They get paid not that much to do the dirty work of making sure there is blood when you or someone you loves needs it, do your part and donate.
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Keith Welty
Don’t get on their calling list as they will robo call you endlessly, we are getting a minimum of three calls per week. What makes it even worse is that they can’t use our blood as we lived in England when there was a concern about “Mad Cow” disease although we never had it.
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David Petik
I miss Virginia blood services. They were so much better to deal with. The red Cross makes it so difficult to donate.
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