Lifesouth Community Blood Centers

Lifesouth is in the business of saving lives by collecting and processing Blood and Blood components from volunteer donors in Florida, Georgia and Alabama. It collected approximately 291,000 donations in fy 2024. Each unit collected is tested to fulfill our mission of providing an adequate and safe Blood supply to more than 120 hospitals in the three states. Lifesouth also provides immunohematology, molecular, histocompatibility, and other advanced laboratory services to hospitals, Blood Centers, and industry partners. Lifesouth's laboratories provided clinical testing for almost 13,000 patient testing requests and provided over 26,000 specialty Blood products for patients in our communities. In addition, Lifesouth performed more than 1,600 therapeutic apheresis procedures for patients during the year. Lifesouth's umbilical cord bank provides units for transplantation worldwide. In 2024, Lifesouth safely added and cryopreserved 296 new cord Blood units. In addition, Lifesouth operates a medical technology training program. Lifesouth also operates a specialist in Blood banking (sbb) certificate program which is an independent educational program offering training in all aspects of Blood banking and transfusion medicine including: Blood collection, product manufacturing, transfusion medicine practice, immunohematology, specialized laboratory testing, quality systems, process control, education, and management. Finally, the Lifesouth research institute represents a concerted effort to utilitize our unique resources to support and develop research initiatives that will change modern medicine. We also strive to make Lifesouth a central point for donors to contribute to their communitites in new and exciting ways, allowing them to save lives today and into the future.