San Diego Blood Bank

Programs: The blood bank collects, stores and distributes blood products. In addition, the blood bank provides the southern california regions hospitals with a wide range of blood banking services. These include blood collection, component preparation, plateletpheresis, plasmapheresis, leukapheresis, washed blood, frozen blood, autologous storage, designated donation services and a reference laboratory. The cell therapy program of the blood bank operates the cord blood program providing lifesaving stem cell transplants to patients worldwide. The blood bank acquires blood principally by donation and, to some extent, by purchase from other blood centers. The blood bank also collaborates with other healthcare providers to improve community wellness and with researchers for future medical advances.

4a continued:over 400 units of whole blood must be collected daily from volunteer blood donors to sufficiently meet the needs of hospitals and patients served by the san diego blood bank. We continually make the public aware of our on-going need for blood. Each year more than 100,000 donors receive free basic health screenings prior to donating blood. The hospitals we serve also benefit from free technology training programs.

4a continued:the san diego blood bank provides more than 165,000 blood components annually to more than 50 hospitals in san diego, imperial, orange, riverside and los angeles counties. The san diego blood bank primarily reaches out to the nearly 3. 1 million people residing in san diego and imperial counties, while the 50 hospitals served by the san diego blood bank throughout the five counties have a combined population of over 17. 6 million.