Community Blood Center/Community Tissue Services Hosts an Open House for the Community

DAYTON, OH - Community Blood Center/Community Tissue Services (CBC/CTS) is holding an open house for the public on Saturday, June 4, 2005, from 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. The expansion and renovation of Community Blood Center/Community Tissue Services’ headquarters is now in its final phase of construction. Tours will be available to give the community a progress report on the project. There will also be a supervised kid’s play area and refreshments will be served.

According to Dr. Judith Woll, CEO of CBC/CTS, “We are excited for the public to tour our facility and to learn about Community Blood Center/Community Tissue Services and the many services we provide to area hospitals and patients in our community. The expansion and renovation will enable CBC/CTS to continue to meet the demands of patients who need blood transfusions or a tissue graft transplant.”

Community Blood Center/Community Tissue Services’ first Capital Campaign, Giving For Life, raised in excess of $2.5 million in support of the $7 million project. Gifts were received from CBC/CTS Board of Trustees and employees, many of its service hospitals, foundations, corporations, and caring individuals in our community. In addition, the project was funded via a bond issuance and operating funds.

This project has enabled CBC/CTS to increase tissue graft production capacity by 20%; increase the space devoted to the education and recruitment of blood donors; create a tissue procurement surgical suite; provide new training rooms and provide a staff lunchroom to accommodate the 400 persons working in Dayton. The expansion/renovation project will be completed in early 2006.

Community Blood Center/Community Tissue Services (CBC/CTS), an independent, not-for-profit organization, is ISO 9001:2000 Certified. Community Blood Center is the sole provider of blood components to twenty-five hospitals in the Miami (Ohio) and Whitewater (Indiana) Valleys. Community Tissue Services serves the public through procurement, processing and distribution of human tissue donations used for transplantation. Community Tissue Services is comprised of eight regional offices: Dayton, Ohio (Corporate Headquarters); Fort Worth, Texas; Fresno, California; Indianapolis, Indiana; Memphis, Tennessee; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Portland, Oregon; and Toledo, Ohio with satellite offices in Boise, Idaho, Medford, Oregon and Connersville, Indiana.

For more information about Community Blood Center/Community Tissue Services, visit www.cbccts.org or contact Amy Moeder, PR/Marketing Coordinator at 937-461-3364.

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