Suncoast Communities Blood Bank provides a reliable supply of quality blood products and services to hospitals and health centers in need. Our singular purpose is to collect, test, process, match, store and distribute all the blood products required to serve the hospitals and health centers in our community.

When O.K. Fike and Dr. Millard White founded the Lower West Coast Blood Bank in February 1949, they planted the seeds of a humanitarian idea that would blossom over five decades. For more than 60 years, tens of thousands of dedicated volunteers, just like you, have helped to provide the critical life saving gift of blood to our local hospitals and patients. In 1949 the Blood Bank collected 551 pints of blood, now called "units". Today, more than 1,000 blood drives are held annually and more than 24,000 units of blood are collected. As we move forward, researchers and scientists offer technological advances that promise to revolutionize transfusion medicine and the growing field of cellular therapy.

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