As an academic blood center, teaching is an integral part of our mission at Stanford Blood Center (SBC). In 2007, to further this mission, SBC helped establish the Stanford Health Care (SHC) Transfusion Medicine (TM) Fellowship Program to train the...
National Volunteer Week is coming up April 15 – 21, so what better time to introduce you to the latest edition to the SBC website…the Volunteer Spotlight. The newest addition to the Volunteer page seeks to highlight our amazing volunteers...
What does 40 years as your community blood center look like? Let us take you on a journey through the history of Stanford Blood Center since its inception in 1978. In honor of our 40th anniversary, a group of SBC...
As a Stanford Blood Center donor, each time you donate, you could potentially save a life… it could be someone with cancer, a trauma victim, or even someone with a rare bleeding disorder. March is National Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month,...
Donors accrue points each time they donate…most donors know that they can redeem the points they earn for items in the Donor Loyalty Store, but few know that they can also donate their points back to support community partners that...
This winter marked our fifth annual Give Good, and we are pleased to announce that it was huge success! Each year during our critical winter season (when blood donations drop due to sickness and holiday travel), SBC partners with another...
Mr. Manmohan (Mohan) Mahal claims it has taken him over twenty years to understand his “journey.” It is because of this journey that he is now driven to give back to the world and inspire others. But first, he needed a change...
Kevin received a heart transplant when he was just 12 years old. To celebrate Kevin's life and that of the donor, Kevin and his family host the "Pay it Forward" blood drive as a way to help others in return.
You may have seen messaging earlier this month letting you know that Stanford Blood Center (SBC) was in critical need of O-negative blood products and platelets. If you are an O- blood donor or a platelet donor, you may have...