Upper Peninsula Regional Blood Center

 

Other Blood Collection Organizations

 

About 75 % of all blood collection organizations in the U.S. are community-based, like the U.P. Regional Blood Center. They provide more than half of the blood products used by patients nationwide.

 

In addition, the American Red Cross operates blood centers in 41 states as part of a national blood banking operation.

 

The primary difference between community-based blood centers and the American Red Cross Blood Service is that community-based blood centers like the U.P. Regional Blood Center are locally controlled.

 

The American Red Cross frequently collects blood in communities where they do not provide blood to local hospitals, or collects more blood in an area than is needed by the local hospital in that area.  These extra donations are used to maintain blood supplies in other areas of the nation.  

 

There are also for-profit blood agencies that purchase blood for pharmaceutical companies and other purposes.

 

Blood banks like the U.P. Regional Blood Center that provide blood products for transfusion cannot offer rewards, such as cash, that could influence a donor to misrepresent his or her health history or risks for spreading infectious diseases like HIV or hepatitis.

 

Prohibiting valuable incentives is one way the Food and Drug Administration and the blood banking community help ensure that the blood supply remains safe.

 


Other Places to Donate Blood in Michigan


Detroit - American Red Cross Blood Services
(313)-494-2771
Flint - American Red Cross Blood Services
(313)-232-1401
Grand Rapids - Michigan Community Blood Center
(616)-776-2300
Hancock - U.P. Regional Blood Center
(906)-483-1392
Iron Mountain - U.P. Regional Blood Center
(906)-774-1012
Lansing - American Red Cross Blood Services
(517)-484-2224
Sparrow Hospital
(517)-483-2530
Madison Heights - Oakland General Hospital
(313)-967-7755
Escanaba - U.P. Regional Blood Center
(906)786-8420
Marquette - Marquette General Hospital
(906)-225-4610
Sault Ste. Marie - U.P. Regional Blood Center
(906)-632-1177


Related Links

AABB American Association of Blood Banks

Cordblood