Like Boston and Philadelphia, New York City has a stellar concentration of research and teaching hospitals, as well as a huge network of smaller maternity hospitals. Women have a variety of public and private cord blood donor companies to choose from to insure that either their baby’s own cord blood is stored against a possible later use or is donated for the public good.
New York Blood Center
The New York Blood Center’s mission is to provide the safest, best quality transfusion related products and services at a reasonable cost to those who will benefit, and to increase the body and availability of knowledge in transfusion medicine.
Mothers giving birth at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center and The Brooklyn Hospital Center – both members of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System – voluntarily donated a record number of life-saving umbilical cord bloods to New York Blood Center’s National Cord Blood Program in 2003, representing 41 percent of the Program’s one year cord blood donations.
The Program, the largest public cord blood bank in the world, provides half of all unrelated cord bloods for transplant. Patients worldwide have benefited from cord blood treatments for diseases such as late stage leukemia, and scientists use cord blood to research promising new treatments. In effect, many mothers are now giving their “gift of life” twice.
New York Blood Center
310 E 67th St.
NY, NY
(212) 570-3000