Transcript Carter BloodCare service area

Carter BloodCare
Dedicated to our Community
Michelle Stefan
Vice President of Corporate and Community Resources
September 23, 2013
We are community
 Carter BloodCare is the largest community blood
center in Texas.
 We are a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization:
– Licensed by the Food and Drug Administration
– Accredited by the AABB, and
– A member of America’s Blood Centers
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Our philosophy
•Carter BloodCare is guided by the philosophy that
community blood donations should benefit community
patients, and that blood centers must be responsive to the
community that supports them.
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What we do
 We partner with local volunteer blood donors within
north, central and east Texas to provide the gift of
life to patients in need.
 We collect, process, test, store and distribute blood
products to hospitals and healthcare facilities that
are located in the communities where we host
blood drives.
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Why we do it
 Every 90 seconds someone in the Carter BloodCare
service area needs blood.
 Daily, 600 to 800 people in our community will need a
blood transfusion to survive.
 38% of the total population is eligible to give blood at
any given time, but less than 4% actually does.
 Every pint of blood can help save at least three lives
because it can be processed into: red cells, plasma,
and platelets.
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Service
CarterArea
BloodCare
•58 counties
•8 million people
•>200 healthcare facilities
•We distribute >500,000 blood
components a year.
•More than 90% of all blood
transfused to patients in our
service area.
•We must register 1,100
donors a day to meet patient
needs.
service area
Anderson
Angelina
Bell
Bosque
Camp
Cherokee
Collin
Cooke
Coryell
Dallas
Delta
Denton
Eastland
Ellis
Erath
Falls
Franklin
Freestone
Gregg
Hamilton
Harrison
Henderson
Hill
Hood
Hopkins
Houston
Hunt
Jack
Johnson
Kaufman
Lamar
Lampasas
Leon
Limestone
Marion
McLennan
Montague
Morris
Navarro
Palo Pinto
Panola
Parker
Rains
Red River
Rockwall
Rusk
Shelby
Smith
Somervell
Stephens
Tarrant
Titus
Trinity
Upshur
Van Zandt
Wise
Wood
Young
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How blood donors save lives
•Blood is made up of three main components. Each
component serves different functions and allows one
unit of blood to help several patients.
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Red cells – help trauma patients and those
undergoing heart bypass or organ transplant
surgery.
Plasma – replaces the blood volume lost by a
burn victim or the victim of a trauma accident.
Platelets – involved in blood clotting; also critical
in the treatment of cancer and leukemia.
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Blood components
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Blood components
Plasma
Red
Blood
Cells
Platelet
Rich
Plasma
Platelet
concentrate
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Blood types – percent in population
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Does blood have a shelf life?
 Red cells can live for 42 days.
 Platelets last only 5 days.
 Plasma can be frozen for up to 1 year.
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Declining Civic Engagement
(Putnam R.D. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community.
Simon and Schuster 2000)
90
Member of Group
% answering yes
80
70
Interested in Politics
60
Attends Church
Regularly
50
40
Attends Club
Regularly
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0
1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970
Year of Birth
Percentage contribution to the annual Apheresis
Platelet Inventory by Age
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18
16
14
12
2001
8
2005
6
2009
4
2
Age
85+
80-84
75-59
70-74
65-69
60-64
55-59
50-54
45-49
40-44
35-39
30-34
25-29
20-24
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0-19
%
10
percentage Contribution to Total Annual Whole
Blood Collections
Carter BloodCare
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14
12
10
%8
2002
6
2006
4
2011
2
0
Age (Years)
You can help
Giving blood is a powerful act of community
service because it is always life-enhancing,
life-prolonging or life-saving.
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Requirements to give blood
 Must be 16 years old (with parent’s consent)
 At 17 you can begin to give independently
 Weigh at least 110 pounds
 Present a government-issued photo ID every time
 Be in good general health – feeling well – at the time
of your donation
 There is no upper age limit for blood donation and
most medications do not prevent you from giving
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Other ways to help
 Host a blood drive
– Every day local organizations and businesses host blood
drives to help maintain the community blood supply.
 Volunteer
– Carter BloodCare offers a variety of volunteer
opportunities. Visit carterbloodcare.org to learn more.
 Tell others about giving blood
– Telling others about blood donation multiplies our
community’s lifesaving efforts.
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Current Blood Banking Environment
Declining/flat
usage
Employment
issues
Cost
Pressures
Health Care
Reform
Aging
population
Blood
Center
New
deferrals
and/or tests
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Strategic Goals
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Texas Collectors
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Affiliations
Carter BloodCare is a proud member of America’s Blood Centers, an
international network of local non-profit, community blood centers.
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Primary Services
 Donor recruitment
 Donor screening
 Blood collection
 Laboratory testing
 Component production & inventory management
 Product distribution
 Medical consultation
 Professional & technical education
 Comprehensive clinical transfusion services
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Special Services
 Immunohemotology Reference
Lab Services
 Platelet Antibody Screening,
HLA Matching & Crossmatching
 Leukoreduction
 Irradiation
 Blood Utilization Review
 Inventory Management
 Infectious Disease Testing &
Counseling
 Autologous & Directed
Collections
 Therapeutic Apheresis &
Photopheresis
 Stem Cell Collection & Bone
Marrow Processing
 Quality Assurance Consultation
 Community Continuing Education
 Co-partners in Formalized Medical
Technology & Physician Training
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Quality Assurance
Carter BloodCare
maintains stringent quality
assurance through:
 Blood donor eligibility standards
 Individual screening & medical history
 On-campus laboratory testing at creative testing solutions.
Blood is tested to detect HIV, hepatitis B and C, HTLV, syphilis
and West Nile Virus
 Donor record checks
 State-of-art information systems
 Comprehensive oversight program directed by an independent
department reporting to the CEO
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Process Improvement
WorkSmart is the name of our continuous
improvement efforts and includes:
 LEAN Manufacturing: eliminating waste and
improving processes
 Six Sigma: standardizing and controlling processes
Completed WorkSmart efforts:
 Component laboratory
 RADE (Record Audit and Data Entry)
 Reference and transfusion laboratory
 Inventory Six Sigma project
 Donor flow Six Sigma project (in process)
 Standardized fixed-site design
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Thank You!
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