Laboratory Services

Rare Donor Services

The Blood Connection provides an extensive library of blood donors that have additional blood typing in the Rh/hr, Kell, Kidd, Duffy, and MNS bloodgroup systems. Read more

Frozen Blood Program

It is important to store rare blood types so that they are available when needed for transfusion. Also, sometimes a surgery date is changed for the person who is giving autologous blood units. Freezing extends the dating period or shelf-life for these blood units. Read more

Cellular Therapy

The Blood Connection provides processing and storage of cellular therapy products that predominately include, hematopoietic progenitor cells. These cells are also called stem cells. They are the source of all the body’s blood cells and are found in most abundance in a person’s bone marrow. However, with administration of bone marrow mobilization medication, a good number of the cells can be found and extracted from a person’s blood stream. These blood forming cells are used to treat a variety of life-threatening diseases originating in or involving the bone marrow. Such diseases include myeloma, leukemia and lymphoma. Read more