BECKLEY, WV (WVNS) -- Appalachian Regional Healthcare will be holding two blood drives during the month of June.

The first will be held at the New River Community and Technical College Educational Room at Summers County ARH on June 9th.

The next will be on June 12th in the gymnasium at Beckley ARH.

Kelly Elkins, Regional Community Development Manager for ARH, said ARH is in need of blood and that there are a couple ways to donate.

"You can come in and just do a one-time donation, and then you have to wait about 63 days, but then, we call it doubles. Where they go in and they put you on a machine and they're pulling out blood and they're recirculating it so that it can count, for us, as twice as many donors cause they're pulling out some of that plasma that's important as well," said El

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