Community Blood Center

Programs: Blood services - as a community blood center, cbc provides services that assure a safe and adequate blood supply. Cbc strives to achieve the highest standards in serving donors, recipients, and the community. Cbc provides blood components, including red cells, platelets, and plasma to hospitals in ohio and indiana.

tissue services - as a community tissue service organization, cts is a provider of services to donor families, recipients, and the community through education, recovery, processing and distribution of tissue grafts. Cts ensures an informed donor family, the respectful removal of tissue from the donor, and the processing, and safekeeping of the donated tissue until it is delivered for transplantation to a recipient. Cts pays any direct tissue costs and reconstruction fees along with transportation of the tissue donation. The donors do not incur any expenses. Cts is available to recipients to answer questions and tracks recipients' information in the case of an adverse event. Cts researches and develops new technology to better serve recipients.

a primary goal of cbc/cts is to educate the public on the importance of blood, tissue, and organ donation. Cbc/cts meets this goal by offering blood and tissue donation educational programs, through traveling mobile education vehicles, by partnering with colleges and universities to educate college and medical students and residents, offering professional educational programs, inviting the general public to use and tour its facilities, and sponsoring websites including a separate website specifically for donors and recipients to share their stories.