NEWS RELEASEValerie Trammell, Director of Community Relations Oklahoma Blood Institutevalerie.trammell@obi.org | (405) 615-3851 (cell) Blood centers launch nation’s first emergency blood reservePartnership of seven community blood centers launches today OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 9, 2021 – Facing an increasingly unsteady blood supply, a group of community blood centers have founded a

Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center has launched eDelphyn, the next generation of blood banking software.  Though eDelphyn’s innovative system has been used internationally for automated blood management processes, the Houston-based blood center is the first in the US to implement the software. As a result, the system, developed by GPI

MEDIC Regional Blood Center in Knoxville, TN has joined twelve other independent blood centers in the Alliance for Community Transfusion Services (ACTS). ACTS was formed in 2010 to strengthen relationships between community blood programs and their local hospitals. READ MORE

New name unites Blood Center’s four-state service region under a single identity(May 3, 2021 | Davenport, Iowa) – In a change that will align its employees, donors, and volunteers of its four-state service region under a single identity, Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center (MVRBC) is changing its name to ImpactLife.

WEST WARWICK, R.I., April 21, 2021 – Citing exceptional efforts and partnership, Blood Centers of America (BCA) is recognizing 10 of its supply partners with the newly announced Critical Infusion Award, for helping to overcome the unique challenges the pandemic posed to the blood and plasma donation field. BCA works

SAN DIEGO (January 25, 2021) – La Jolla resident and mother of three, Stacie Buechel was recently diagnosed with bone cancer and needs blood transfusions as part of her treatment, but her situation is complicated because she has a rare blood type. Stacie needs blood from donors who have A+

NEWS RELEASE Heather Browne ∙ Marketing & Media Manager 405-419-1330 ∙ Cell 405-623-9321 Email ∙ heather.browne@obi.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Oklahoma Blood Institute Receives $50,000 Grant from Presbyterian Health Foundation to Purchase Flow Cytometer to Advance Research Projects OBI Advancing Cell Therapies to Help Fight Cancer January 13, 2021 (OKLAHOMA CITY)

(San Antonio, TX – Sept. 17, 2020) Community Labs, a new nonprofit organization, has launched an innovative laboratory in San Antonio, changing how traditional COVID-19 testing is currently conducted by advances in speed, capacity, accuracy and price, along with a less invasive testing process. Inspired by the work of Scientists

LifeShare Blood Center has received FDA Licensure approval for Apheresis Platelets stored in InterSol Platelet Additive Solution (PAS). This approval expands LifeShare’s ability to distribute apheresis platelets containing PAS outside the state of Louisiana. Read More

Gov. Stitt recently made a plasma donation at the Oklahoma Blood Institute donor center in Enid. “One donation can provide lifesaving plasma for up to four people,” said Gov. Stitt. “Donating convalescent plasma is the easiest way Oklahomans who have recovered from COVID-19 can help their friends and neighbors and I urge