All of the tubing, bags and needles used in the process are new, sterile and disposable. An apheresis donor can give platelets every three days. Refreshments are served after both types of donations and most normal activities can resume immediately. Give a little, so someone can live. As a member of the Rex Healthcare Network of Services, the mission of RBP is to provide the highest standards of care and service to blood donors and Rex patients, to promote a plan of community participation, and to increase awareness throughout the area of the need for blood at Rex Hospital.
Statistics show that only one out of twenty eligible persons gives blood regularly.
Those few special donors are literally providing the lifeblood the patients at Rex Hospital depend upon to survive. Please help change the statistics. Support Services Rex Blood plan hosts hemochromatosis support meetings at the donor center every other month. The primary focus of the group is to strengthen awareness of the prevalence of the disease in the public and medical community.