SunCoast Blood Bank
A life-saving mission that reaches far beyond
the role of a traditional blood bank.
SunCoast Blood Bank is much more than a traditional blood
While its mission to
provide life-saving blood products to area hospitals and health
centers is vital, up to 35 percent of its blood products are used
to treat cancer patients. SunCoast also plays a crucial role in
leading edge research and procedures aimed at treating and
defeating cancer, arthritis, blood disorders, sickle cell, multiple
sclerosis and much more.
To achieve all of this, SunCoast Blood Bank, a 501(c)(3)
donors. Both were required to bring a successful, life-extending
therapy to late stage prostate cancer patients, and SunCoast
procedure for late stage ovarian cancer. Up to 300 patients a
year receive plasma exchanges to help with bleeding disorders,
and specially processed blood products are used to help
leukemia and sickle cell patients.
a new procedure that results in pathogen-reduced platelets. It
also helps research centers nationwide by collecting cellular
components needed for research on cancer, arthritis and other
disorders. Financial donors help make this possible, and also
are working to raise $200,000 to replace a much-needed
Bloodmobile. “We want everyone to know that we are so much
more than a traditional blood bank,” said Scott Bush, CEO.
“Platelet, blood and plasma donors are extremely important, of
lives.”
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