Oklahoma Blood Institute

Service fees for Blood products: as the sixth-largest Blood center in the u.s, obi collects, tests, processes, and distributes more than 450,000 life-saving Blood products annually in 16 Blood donation centers across Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas. Our complex technological infrastructure and rare medical expertise allow obi to provide safe and adequate Blood to patients at more than 230 area hospitals, medical facilities, and air ambulances across all three states. Our rigorous safety measures and the tireless efforts of our medical laboratory staff ensure that the donated Blood is safe and available to save lives.

Patient care revenue: therapeutic apheresis services for patients at area hospitals are provided by specially trained registered nurses under the direction of transfusion medicine physicians. Patients undergo treatments that remove harmful proteins, chemicals or cells in the Blood that contribute to a variety of life-threatening diseases or transplant complications. Based on patients' conditions, specific offending agents or components of the Blood are isolated and irradiated or removed. After this intricate processing, patients receive their treated Blood to restore health.

Testing services: while many Blood centers outsource their testing, obi maintains an in-house testing laboratory to provide a rapid response to processing units. With every donation, our diligent laboratory staff performs multiple tests to ensure Blood products are safe and ready to be transfused to local patients. As a fully licensed and certified laboratory, obi maintains the highest standards and leads the nation in applying cutting-edge technology to create the safest Blood products possible. Obi's testing laboratory provides a wide scope of safety testing for several blood-born conditions, like hiv, hepatitis c, and west nile virus, to ensure Blood products are of the highest quality. If any sample is positive for these issues, our staff will notify the donor and refer them for additional testing and treatment. After the Blood sample has been cleared, additional health screening testing is performed. For example, we test the cholesterol level of every donor as part of our standard donation process.

Other program services: these other program services are Blood product derivatives. Derivatives are a product manufactured from a raw material byproduct of Blood collection. Obi collects this material, which is unusable for Blood transfusion, and distributes this byproduct to plasma manufacturers which, in turn, use it in the production of a biological drug. Revenue for this program is $370,493 with offsetting expenses totaling $297,849. The cell therapy program involves collections of stem cells and cord Blood from patients, testing, and manufacturing the products for patient use. Revenue for this program is $578,892 with offsetting expenses totaling $840,217. Obi manages the life-saving Blood donations of more than 200,000 people in the region each year. These units of Blood are eventually delivered to patients across the region, but not before undergoing an immense amount of fda-regulated processing and testing for donor and Blood recipient safety. Volunteer Blood donors give what can't be created and provided by any other means. Obi recruits donors and provides skilled medical staff, technology, and facilities to collect Blood from donors. Lab professionals under the medical supervision of physicians prepare the Blood for transfusion and administer multiple safety tests. All must be done with utmost urgency and around the clock since Blood has a very limited time for use. Obi administers five layers of safety procedures - Blood donor eligibility standards, individual screening, laboratory testing, confidential exclusion of donations and donor record checks. Extensive compliance and technical tenure are required to get Blood from a donor to a patient. Blood centers also work closely with government agencies and other entities on quality control and tracking. An entire team manages the supply logistics with every medical facility served so that they have the right Blood at the right time for patients. This can fluctuate greatly, even within a few hours. Couriers travel more than six million miles each year to transport donated Blood to central labs and hospitals with accuracy and efficiency, leaving no need unmet, regardless of the situation or travel conditions. Hospitals and patients are not charged for the donated Blood itself. Expenses are recovered through a service fee for employee wages, fuel, vehicles, advanced testing equipment and Blood processing as summarized above. Obi's fees and quality have made it the chosen, sole supplier for more than 90 percent of Oklahoma's Blood supply, as well as more than 40 Arkansas hospitals, eight hospitals in the texoma region and most hospitals in the Texas high plains region. It requires 24/7, 365 days-a-year staffing and operations, much like area hospitals.