Alaska is the only state in the country where over 80% of donated blood is flown to where its needed, and it starts in Anchorage.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Barbara Farmer, a resident in Anchorage, is a universal donor who has been donating her blood for the past 10 to 15 years.But while Farmer gets to relax, her blood is preparing to go on a quick journey throughout Alaska. As soon as her blood is drawn, it will start undergoing a quarantine and testing process before it is either driven or flown out to a hospital in Alaska.
The Blood Bank of Alaska is in charge of providing all the blood donations that Alaska hospitals use across the state. Blood is collected at two Anchorage locations, and in Juneau, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Fairbanks, and in the bank’s mobile units. Each week, the bank tries to gather a total of 600 units of blood.All of the blood that is collected across the five donation sites all ends up at the bank’s main center in Anchorage, where the quarantine and testing processes occur.
A unique concept, Scanlon said about blood collection in Alaska, is that 80% of the blood transported to hospitals is transported by plane. This allows donors’ blood to travel all over the state to save a life.
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