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Causes: Blood Banks, Health
Mission: To provide human blood and allograft tissue services to hospitals. To safeguard the community's gifts of donated blood and tissue with uncompromising quality and excellence in service.
Programs: Blood services: in order to assure a safe and adequate supply ofdonated blood for the transfusion needs of central texas hospitals, the center solicits volunteer blood donors and provides for the collection, testing, processing, storage and distribution of blood and blood components.
tissue services: the center provides for the ethical consent, recovery and testing of donated human tissue, and for the storage and distribution of processed tissue allografts for use in orthopedic, cardiovascular, neurological and other surgical procedures. It also provides follow up grief support services for tissue donor families.