What customers are saying
"Why do I do this? Because I like waking up knowing that I'm doing something that really makes a difference."
Jennifer Hoggatt Apheresis Operator
Donor Recruitment and Conversion
Change your donor recruitment strategies to meet patient needs — and gain financial stability
How often do you hear your staff say things like this?
"We never have the right amount of platelets. It's feast or famine."
"We don't have enough Type O red blood cells."
"Regulatory has deferred too many of our donors. We don't have enough!"
Recruiting and maintaining an adequate number of blood donors is one of the most challenging aspects of managing a blood center. With more and more potential donors being deferred, your blood center may find it difficult to meet collection goals with your current donor population — especially if most of your donors are whole blood donors.
Other issues are stressing blood centers as well. More regulatory requirements add to the cost of producing blood components, reducing already tight margins. In addition, reimbursement for blood products historically has not kept pace with the expense associated with providing blood components.
The state of the blood supply
At any one time, the United States needs a cushion of a million units of blood available to meet the nation's blood needs. If supplies are not managed, in the next ten years, the supply-demand may become extreme, with just not enough of the right blood components available on a regular basis. This situation — caused by decreasing donor pools and increasing patient needs — will continue to get worse unless blood centers change blood collection strategies to obtain more of the components needed by patients. If you use apheresis equipment to collect some of your donations, then you already collect more of specific components, and may be thinking about progressing to automated collections including platelets, red blood cells, and plasma.
What if you could maximize the number of components you collected — per Trima System, per day? What if you could fill every appointment on your apheresis collection schedule? Do you think you could collect everything you need on a daily basis?
Progressing to more automated blood donations
To move your blood center to collections based on what's needed — today — means maximizing your Trima Accel Collection System equipment. To do that, you need to move donors from whole blood to automated donors collections. But that's only part of the process. Moving donors to automated collections involves the efforts of your entire blood center. Collections, processing, distribution, and donor recruitment all work towards the same goal: collecting, on a daily basis, the right amount of the right blood products needed to meet the needs of today's patients.
Moving to a component-driven collection strategy may not be easy for your blood center. It involves changing the way your organization manages blood inventory, donor recruitment, and blood collections. To help your blood center, CaridianBCT has created a program, free to our customers, to move your center to a component strategy tied directly to patient demand. The program includes:
- On-site consulting and analysis
- Staff education and training
- Donor conversion materials that assist you in changing your collection management process and donor recruitment programs
Learn more about the progression from whole blood collection to total component management. Find out what support tools are available to help with your donor conversion program.
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