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To provide the community with the highest quality blood and blood banking
services at a reasonable cost.
Community Blood Centers of South Florida, Inc, (CBCSF) is
a non-profit all voluntary blood collection agency. Each year, CBCSF collects
over 220,000 pints of blood and blood products for hospital and kidney dialysis
patients.
The Blood Center operates 16 donor centers which are conveniently
located throughout South Florida in Monroe, Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm
Beach counties. In addition, 36 bloodmobiles travel throughout the community
on a scheduled basis visiting businesses, churches, synagogues, government
agencies and schools. If you would like to arrange for a bloodmobile to visit
your organization, please contact our Donor Resources department at (954)
777-2626 in Broward; (305) 398-0400 in Miami-Dade;
or toll-free at (888) 454-2362 or (800)-879-5020.
In the fall of 2001, Community Blood Centers of South Florida
moved its Miami operations to one central location in Hialeah. The blood
center, or El Banco de Sangre, houses recruitment, administrative and warehouse
personnel, operates two laboratories, and has its own Hospital Services department.
CBCSF is a member of the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB), America's
Blood Centers (ABC), the American Society for Histocompatibility and
Immunogenetics (ASHI) and the Florida Association of Blood Banks (FABB).
It is also licensed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the
state of Florida. In addition, CBCSF is a donor center for the National
Marrow Donor Program (NMDP).
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