Blood Assurance will be holding two public blood drives in honor of Leonard Fant, longtime medical administrator and co-founder of Blood Assurance, Inc., who passed away on Oct. 6, at the age of 82. The blood drives will be held Tuesday, Feb. 14 from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. at the downtown Chattanooga Blood Assurance donor center and the Fort Oglethorpe Blood Assurance donor center.
Mr. Fant retired from Blood Assurance as CEO in 2009.
Beyond his role of establishing Blood Assurance, Leonard served as CEO of Erlanger and North Park hospitals in Chattanooga and as CEO of Hutcheson Medical Center in Fort Oglethorpe. He was also the founder and former chairman of the Hutcheson Health Foundation.