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facility should provide twenty-four hour service, to pickup cord blood from any location or a bedside in a hospital. Within twenty-four hours the cord blood should arrive, at the blood bank. Physicians prefer a blood bank to store cord blood using Gravity Bag. This method designed to collect the greatest volume of cord blood. The greater amount of cord blood stored will produce, more viable stem cells. Also, Gravity Bags reduces the likelihood of airborne bacteria, from contamination during collection. Besides the primary storage capability, a small amount of cord blood should be placed in Aliguots: a small compartment for pre-transplantation testing. This does not disturb the primary storage area.

In 2004, Federal appropriations act (Public Law 108-199), made available initial $10 million, establish National Cord Blood Stem Cell Bank Program, within the Health Resources and Services Administration HRSA). The goal to collect over five years, an inventory of 150,000 cord blood stem cell units, to provide life saving stem cell transplants, for thousands of patients each year. The estimated cost for the program will be $150 million.


Cord blood banks:

Cord Blood Storage and Donation (Accredited by the American Association of Blood Banks) Public trade company - Telephone: 800 - 869 - 8608. E-mail: clientservices@cryo-intl.com

Cy robank of Oncologic & Reproduction Donors Incorporated
100 Crystal Run Read, Suite 102, Middletown, New York 10941-4041
Telephone:1 - 877 - 267 - 3253 E-mail: www.cordbloodforlife.com

New York Blood Center's National Cord Blood Center (Oldest and largest public cord blood bank - nearly 30,000 mothers donated baby's cord blood)
310 East 67th Street - New York, NY 10021
Tele: 866 - 767 - 6227 E-mail: ncbp@nybloodcenter.org

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