Cord Blood Donation Program gets 100th participant
USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital’s Cord Blood Donation Program has quickly reached a milestone, marking its 100th participant.
Since its inception in May, USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital’s Cord Blood Donation Program has quickly reached a milestone, marking its 100th participant.
The program, the first of its kind in the upper Gulf Coast region, collects the umbilical cord blood from a newborn that could help treat more than 80 diseases in patients, such as leukemia and lymphoma.
“To know that just in 10 weeks, 100 volunteers have participated in the program is amazing,” said Mimi Munn, M.D., professor and chair of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine and a maternal-fetal medicine physician with USA Health. “We are grateful to be a part of this wonderful program that is helping save lives around the world.”
LifeSouth, a cord blood bank and USA Health’s partner in the program, counsels patients about their donation. The program utilizes Be the Match Registry, a global leader in bone marrow transplantation, to facilitate matches between donors and patients.
