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The Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center is an independent, nonprofit blood donor center recognized worldwide for its quality assurance programming, state-of-the-art technologies and management expertise. It began its operations on Jan. 1, 1975 and since then has grown to more than 700 employees and serve more than 170 hospitals and health care institutions in the 26-county Texas Gulf Coast, Brazos Valley and East Texas regions. Located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, the Blood Center deploys 32 mobile collection units—14 coaches and 18 vans, and offers 17 conveniently located Neighborhood Donor Centers and several mobile blood drives almost every day.
The Blood Center encourages individuals to Commit for Life, which is a partnership between the community and Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center that is focused on saving lives, today and in the future. To meet the needs of the area community, The Blood Center must collect 333,000 units in 2010, and more than 1,000 donations every day.
Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center is accredited, licensed and inspected by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), American Association of Blood Banks (AABB), Medicare as well as local and state authorities. It is a proud member Blood Centers of America, South Central Association of Blood Banks, the Texas Medical Center and America's Blood Centers. The center is also an accredited donor center for the National Marrow Donor Program and has recruited more than 90,000 potential donors who who can donate bone marrow or hematopoietic cells. |
