Patients - to provide quality tested, quality prepared, and appropriate blood and blood components in quantities consistent with both transfusion and selected surgery requirements. Reference Service - to provide medical, technical, and consultative services to physicians, other health care professionals and hospitals as applies to blood transfusion medicine. Continuing Education - to develop, maintain, and support high quality educational programs for health care professionals, employees, and the region at a reasonable cost to the participants. Realizing that blood is a living tissue with limited shelf life, a coalition of blood centers organized a program to utilize every unit of blood before it outdates and has to be discarded. LifeShare Blood Centers provides for the blood needs of patients in our local service areas first.
Blood is shared with others, only after local needs are met.
We believe it is better to share units of blood and blood products that are not used in our local service areas with patients in areas of the nation suffering blood shortages. LifeShare Blood Centers belongs to the citizens of the communities it serves. It belongs to the donors who support its activities, to the citizens who govern its operations, and to the patients in the area hospitals who benefit from the products and services we provide. In other words, LifeShare Blood Centers belongs to each of us. Here is a listing of the Board of Trustees for LifeShare Blood Centers.