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- EIN 59-1545914
- (352) 224-1600
- 4039 Newberry Rd Gainesville FL 32607-2342 USA
- www.lifesouth.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Blood Banks, Health
Mission: To provide a safe blood supply that meets or exceeds the needs of each community we serve, and to provide a variety of services in support of ongoing and emerging blood and transfusion-related activities.
Programs: Lifesouth is in the business of saving lives by collecting and processing blood and blood components from volunteer donors in florida, georgia and alabama. It collected more than 265,000 donations in fy 2017. Each unit collected is tested to fulfill our mission of providing an adequate and safe blood supply to more than 110 hospitals in the three states. Lifesouth also provides compatibility testing and other immunohematology reference laboratory services for many of the hospitals it serves. It supplies special antigen blood products and specialized testing. Lifesouth tested more than 1,620 patient samples and performed more than 24,500 tests. Lifesouth also provided more than 1,900 cross matches and 940 antibody screens for patients during the past year. In addition, lifesouth administered more than 550 therapeutic procedures for patients during the year. Lifesouth's umbilical cord bank provides units for transplantation worldwide. In 2017, lifesouth safely added and cryopreserved 768 new cord blood units. Lifesouth operates a medical technology training program.