Buffalo Grove, IL, July 27, 2020 – Healthcare-ID, Inc. announces that Community Blood Center of Kansas City, a division of New York Blood Center, is joining the ranks of numerous blood centers in using the Donor-ID^TM software for their collection needs.  Community Blood Center is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri and has served their community for over 60 years. They provide nearly 200,000 blood products each year to hospitals across Missouri and Kansas.  

“We’re elated to have the Community Blood Center of Kansas City join the Healthcare-ID family.  We are looking forward to working with them on getting Donor-ID^TM up and running, and for them to see the many benefits that come with using our software,” states Bryan Sadorf, Executive Vice President and COO of Healthcare-ID.

Donor-ID™ is used to collect over 7,500,000 units of blood annually at the following Blood Centers:  Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center in Houston, TX; Memorial Blood Center in St Paul, MN;  Oklahoma Blood Institute in Oklahoma City, OK; Coffee Memorial Blood Center in Amarillo, TX;  Arkansas Blood Institute in Little Rock, AR;  Texas Blood Institute in Wichita Falls, TX; Stanford Blood Center in Palo Alto, CA; ITxM with Central Blood Bank in Pittsburgh, PA and LifeSource Blood Services in Chicago, IL; LifeStream in San Bernardino, California; ARUP Blood Services in Salt Lake City, UT; Heartland Blood Centers in Aurora, IL; Blood Center of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, WI; Central California Blood Center in Fresno, CA;  Rhode Island Blood Center in Providence, RI; Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, CA; Canadian Plasma Resources in Saskatoon, SK, Canada, and The American Red Cross, nationwide.

About Community Blood Center of Greater Kansas City (CBC): Community Blood Center, now part of the NYBC family, serves hospitals in the Kansas City metropolitan area, as well as eastern Kansas and western Missouri. CBC provides nearly 200,000 blood products per year to approximately 65 area hospitals – and calls upon about 580 donors each day to meet the need for a life-saving gift of blood. The blood center makes timely deliveries of safe, high-quality products to meet transfusion needs, for routine care and emergencies. For more information, visit http://www.savealifenow.org/.

(About Healthcare-ID) Incorporated in January 1995, Healthcare-ID develops and markets products to meet the Blood Center's need for automating the entry of accurate information at both fixed and mobile collection sites to eliminate the disposal of collected blood units based on donor eligibility and suitability, and significantly reduce the cost of blood collection.  Healthcare-ID, with its Donor-ID^TM product offers modules including Registration, Health History Screening, CASI, Internet CASI, Physical Exam, Daily QC, Phlebotomy, Shipping, Survey, and Donor Adverse Reaction.  Donor-ID^TM interfaces to most major blood center data management systems. Visit www.healthcare-id.com for more information.