ROCK RIVER VALLEY BLOOD CENTER
Rockford, IL
Website | Phone: (815) 965-8751
Mission
The Rock River Valley Blood Center (RRVBC), in partnership with our communities, is dedicated to providing safe, high-value blood products and services to patients in need. RRVBC’s vital role involves collecting over 800 units of blood each week to fulfill the demands of our fourteen area hospitals. We depend on volunteer donors from Rock and Walworth counties in Wisconsin, and donors from Winnebago, Boone, McHenry, Stephenson, Ogle, Lee, and Carroll counties in Illinois. We are the sole supplier of crucial blood products to the Mercyhealth hospitals in Janesville and Walworth County, as well as Beloit Health Systems and Edgerton Community Hospital. We host mobile blood drives throughout Walworth and Rock counties to ensure an adequate supply of local blood products to these hospitals.
Community Resources
In 2025, the hospitals that we service in Southern Wisconsin, including Mercyhealth Hospital in Walworth County, transfused over 4,000 blood products to save the lives of patients in need. Blood products are used by trauma victims, new mothers and their infant children, cancer patients, those in surgery, and many more.
Most Urgent Need
Our collections are down from 30,000 donations in 2024 to about 23,000 in 2025. This major drop in donations has caused a critical blood shortage across Southern Wisconsin. To increase donations, we are purchasing a new mini mobile bus. This mini mobile is about half the size of our other two buses and, as a result, gives us a much more economically efficient way to host blood drives farther from our Rockford headquarters. Currently, we host only a few blood drives in Lake Geneva, but this new mobile unit will allow us to host more drives with community organizations. This will mean more life-saving blood is available to make Lake Geneva a healthier and safer place to live.
