Heartland Blood Centers

Heartland Blood Centers (HBC) is an independent non-for-profit blood donation center that serves the Northern Illinois Region and Northwest Indiana. Centers are located in Aurora, Bloomingdale, Crystal Lake, De Kalb, Elgin, Frankfort, Geneva, Joliet, Morris, Naperville, Plainfield, Bloomingdale, St. Charles, Tinley Park, Westmont, Winfield, and Yorkville in Illinois, and Griffith in Indiana. Donors with scheduled appointments and walk-in donors alike are welcome to donate at any of the available facilities, and are also encouraged to give blood at any of Heartland’s mobile blood drives. Heartland Blood Centers partners with schools, churches, businesses, and community groups to host blood drives 7 days a week.

Heartland Blood Centers provides over 172,500 units of blood annually to 12 counties and 38 hospitals. It operates under a volunteer donor system and returns 100% of the blood donated to communities served by Heartland. HBC is also a partner of the nationwide resource sharing program which directs blood donations to relief efforts after natural disasters, national emergencies, and demands by the armed forces. As a result of this partnership Heartland Blood Centers is ready to assist all areas of the United States during national blood shortages.

References

•Heartland Blood Centers homepage. www.heartlandbc.org

•Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_blood_donation_agencies_in_the_United_States

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Information on other blood donation agencies in the United States can be found at List of blood donation agencies in the United States