Oklahoma Blood Institute

Oklahoma Blood Institute

Rural Development is investing $84,648 in ARRA funds to help the Oklahoma Blood Institute purchase a mobile blood unit commonly known as a bloodmobile. The new unit will replace an old and unreliable unit, stationed at their regional center in Ada, Oklahoma, that must be retired after 17 years and 273,212 miles of service. East Central Blood Institute of Ada, has been borrowing a unit from the Oklahoma City center. The investment of this grant will protect a vital service in Oklahoma.

The Oklahoma Blood Institute is a very large operation offering critical services to Oklahoma and some surrounding areas. In fact, Oklahoma Blood Institute (OBI) is the eleventh largest non-profit regional blood center in America. It projects a need for 220,000 units of blood a year and provides transfusion blood products and clinical services to more than 150 medical facilities in Oklahoma and north central Texas with the help of nearly 700 employees working with as many as 800 volunteers and 2,600 drive coordinators.

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