BKF Partners in Education
If you or your company would like to a play role or join the team in BKF or related efforts, please call us to discuss your participation. Thank you.

Christiana Care Health System
Please contact us at 302-733-1000 or http://www.christianacare.com/

Christiana Hospital is one of the largest maternity centers in the Delaware and Delmarva region with more than 7,000 babies born in our hospital each year. This new partnership means that every expectant mother delivering at Christiana can potentially donate her baby's cord blood for FREE! We are now a PUBLIC cord blood collection facility.

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The Elie Katz Umbilical Cord Blood Program at Community Blood Services
Please contact us at 1-866-SAVCORD or http://www.communitybloodservices.com/

The umbilical cord blood program was established in 1996 to meet the needs of a growing population of cancer patients who are candidates for stem cell transplantation

Community Blood Services is a blood bank that collects blood donations, and offers cord blood banking and bone marrow registration and donations. Founded in 1953, Community Blood Services is a not-for-profit organization devoted to serving the community’s transfusion medicine needs.

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National Marrow Donor Program
Please contact us at 1 (800) 526-7809 or www.marrow.org

The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) is the international leader in the facilitation of unrelated marrow and blood stem cell transplantation. A non-profit organization based in Minneapolis, Minn., the NMDP facilitates unrelated marrow and blood stem cell transplants for patients with life-threatening diseases who do not have matching donors in their families.

Since its founding in 1986, the NMDP has facilitated approximately 12,000 unrelated transplants for patients with blood disorders, such as leukemia and aplastic anemia, as well as certain immune system and genetic disorders.

The NMDP is the only organization that offers a single point of access for all sources of stem cells used in transplantation: marrow, peripheral blood and umbilical cord blood. At any given time, the NMDP offers hope to more than 3,000 patients searching its Registry.

The NMDP has developed a central Registry of cord blood units that is available to physicians for searching. The following cord blood banks will be or currently are listing their cords in the NMDP's centralized list.

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2003 Central Registry of USA Blood Banks
www.marrow.org/cgibin/NETWORK/nmdp_cord_blood_hospitals.pl#NJ
Current Cord Blood Banks in the NMDP Network as of January 2003
The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) has developed a Central Registry of cord blood units that is available to physicians for searching. The following cord blood banks will be or currently are listing their cords in the NMDP's centralized list. For more information about the status of the Registry and the availability of searches, please contact the NMDP at 1 (800) 526-7809.

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