Michigan Community Blood Centers believes that hospitals and the patients they care for should be able to depend completely on a blood provider that always puts their needs first.

• A healthy community protects and conserves vital natural resources, like air and water, that sustain everyone. Michigan Community Blood Centers believes the community blood supply deserves similar attention and care.
• Saying blood may be available is not the same as promising that blood will always be there, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Michigan Community Blood Centers has been making – and keeping – that promise to hospitals in your neighborhood, across town, and across the state, for more than 50 years. Many are major regional medical centers that care for people a very large area of Michigan. And, after providing for all our Michigan hospitals, we regularly send blood wherever needed in the US, including the military.
• Groups that want to hold blood drives should be able to, regardless of whether they have on-site facilities for a blood drive. So Michigan Community Blood Centers offers Blood Bus service that can make almost any site a lifesaving blood drive location.
• Blood donors should be able to choose convenient donation locations. Michigan Community Blood Centers offers more than 40 permanent donation sites across the state, plus hundreds of mobile blood drives.

Right where you need us, right where your hospitals and their patients need us, Michigan Community Blood Centers is there to safeguard life’s most precious renewable resource.

Please give blood or sponsor a blood drive with Michigan Community Blood Centers.

Michigan Community Blood Centers Overview

• Provides 100% of regular blood supply in 4 Michigan regions (pop. 1.5+ million)
• Collects 100,000 units of blood/year
• Headquarters + main testing laboratory in Grand Rapids
• Donor centers + mobile blood drives throughout all service areas
• 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
• Licensed by US Food & Drug Administration
• Accredited by AABB
• Member, America’s Blood Centers

Donor Centers & Service Areas

• See Donor Centers

Services

• Recruit volunteer blood donors + blood drive sponsors
• Collect blood at permanent donation centers + mobile blood drives
• Operate Blood Bus (mobile donation station)
• Test, process, store, and distribute donated blood
• Special services to support patient care including Marrow/Stem-Cell Program; therapeutic apheresis; apheresis, autologous, and directed donation; red-cell reference lab; Cord Blood Bank; HLA Laboratory
• Education Program (presentations, demonstrations, tours)
• Clinical conferences & seminars

Administration & Operation

• Local Boards of Governors (members live and work in community) provide oversight and guidance for specific service areas.
• Processing fees fund operations (fees cover costs of recruiting donors and collecting, testing, storing, and distributing blood, plus administrative overhead)

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In a car accident, Maggie suffered massive traumatic injuries. Blood transfusions
helped her survive and recover.

When a hematoma caused massive internal bleeding, Luke needed a blood transfusion to bring his hemoglobin back to a safe level.

Blood transfusions helped keep Lou alive before and after a marrow transplant.