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 288,000 donations in fy 2023. Each unit collected is tested to fulfill our mission of providing an adequate and safe Blood supply to more than 130 hospitals in the three states. Lifesouth also provides compatibility testing and other immunohematology reference laboratory services for many of the hospitals it serves. It supplies special antigen Blood products and specialized testing. Lifesouth tested more than 12,400 patient samples and performed more than 72,000 tests. Lifesouth also provided more than 3,500 cross matches and 2,500 antibody screens for patients during the past year. In addition, Lifesouth administered more than 1,400 therapeutic procedures for patients during the year. Lifesouth's umbilical cord bank provides units for transplantation worldwide. In 2023, Lifesouth safely added and cryopreserved 369 new cord Blood units. Lifesouth operates a medical technology training program.