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- EIN 73-1008735
- (405) 297-5700
- 1001 N Lincoln Blvd Oklahoma City OK 73104-3251 USA
- www.obi.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Blood Banks, Health, Voluntary Health Associations & Medical Disciplines
Mission: To be the donor-to-patient lifelines; providing our communities and medical partners security by meeting blood transfusion and health care needs. Obi manages the life-saving blood donations of more than 210,000 people in the region each year. Some 250,000 units of blood are eventually delivered to patients in more than 235 hospitals and air ambulance services across the region, but not before undergoing an immense amount of fda-regulated processing and testing for donor and blood recipient safety. Volunteer blood donors give what cannot be created and provided from any other means. Obi recruits donors, provides skilled medical staff, technology and facilities to collect blood from donors. Lab professionals under the medical supervision of physicians prepare the blood for transfusion and administer 15 safety tests. All must be done with utmost urgency and around the clock, since blood has a very limited time for use. Obi administers five layers of safety procedures - blood donor eligibi
Programs: As the ninth-largest blood center in the u. S, obi manages 250,000 life-saving blood donations in the region annually. Our complex technological infrastructure and rare medical expertise allows oklahoma blood institute (obi) to provide safe and adequate blood to patients in area hospitals. Our rigorous safety measures and the tireless efforts of our medical laboratory staff ensure that the donated blood is safe and available to save lives. See schedule o for more information on the scope of this extensive operation or visit obi. Org.
obis testing laboratory is among the most advanced in the nation. Obi laboratory services ensure a safe blood supply for the medical providers we supply, and we also work hand in hand to assist other blood centers, clinics and organ donation organizations. Our laboratorys cutting-edge technology provides these clients with the impeccably-efficient turnaround required for highly-specialized blood testing. Maintaining strict aabb-accreditation and fda-licensing standards, our lab provides nucleic acid testing and serological and viral marker screening tests, including a wide range of screening assays. Confirmatory/supplemental assays and referral testing services are also offered. For more info, visit obi. Org/medical-professionals/lab-testing-services.
therapeutic apheresis services for patients at area hospitals are provided by specially-trained registered nurses under the direction of transfusion medicine physicians. Patients undergo treatments that remove harmful proteins, chemicals or cells in the blood that contribute to a variety of life-threatening diseases or transplant complications. Based on patients' conditions, specific offending agents or components of the blood are isolated and irradiated or removed. After this intricate processing, patients receive their treated blood to restore health. For more info, visit obi. Org/about-us/therapeutic-phlebotomy.