An Amazing Community Partner - LifeSouth Community Blood Centers

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About LifeSouth
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Who we are LifeSouth Community Blood Centers is a 501(c)3, non-profit community
blood supplier for hospitals in Florida, Georgia and Alabama. LifeSouth
was founded in 1974 in Gainesville, Florida.
LifeSouth’s mission
Providing a safe blood supply that meets or exceeds the needs in each
community we serve, and to provide a variety of services in support of
ongoing and emerging blood and transfusion-related activities.
What makes us different
As a community blood center, LifeSouth’s mission is different from many
blood banks. Our focus is our community. The hospitals we serve in our
community are the first priority. We seek to meet those needs with our
community business partners and our amazing donors who know that the
blood they donate will stay here to help their families, friends and
neighbors.
Fast facts about blood:
Every two seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood.
One out of every seven people admitted to a hospital needs blood.
The blood type most often requested by hospitals is Type O.
Red cells must be used within forty-two days of collection.
Platelets must be used within five days of collection.
On average, how much blood do patients need?
(information collected by America’s Blood Centers)
Automobile Accident Victim: 50 units of blood
Heart Surgery Patient: 6 units of blood and 6 units of platelets
Organ Transplant Patient: 40 units of blood, 30 units of platelets, 20
units of cryoprecipitate, and 25 units of fresh frozen plasma
Bone Marrow Transplant Patient: 120 units of platelets and 20 units of
blood
Burn Victim: 20 units of plasma/platelets
LifeSouth in North Alabama
A quick history
In 2002, LifeSouth came to Huntsville, Ala. at the request of Huntsville
Hospital, Decatur General Hospital, Athens-Limestone Hospital, Eliza
Coffee Memorial Hospital, Shoals Hospital, Marshall Medical Center
North, Marshall Medical Center South, Crestwood Medical Center,
Parkway Medical Center, Hartselle Medical Center and Baptist Lawrence
Medical Center. In 2004, LifeSouth expanded to the Morgan Region in
Decatur, Ala., and Marshall Region in Albertville, Ala. The Shoals region
was established in 2008 in Sheffield, Ala.
Where our blood goes
The blood supply collected from our donors directly serves the needs of
patients at over 100 medical facilities throughout our footprint. The blood
donated in the community will stay there for local patient transfusions.
Only if our local supply is met will LifeSouth share the blood resources
with other communities.
In 2011, LifeSouth supplied blood to 68 Alabama hospitals and collected
138,000 blood donations from, and for, Alabamians. In addition to
Huntsville, LifeSouth currently operates regions in Albertville, Mobile,
Daphne, Cullman, Decatur, Shoals, Birmingham, Montgomery, Opelika
and Dothan.
Without the help of over 40 blood
donors – Tray Williams wouldn’t be
alive today. A blood donor himself, he
understands first-hand the power of
blood donation.
Ernie Cocoran of Decatur
reached his 500th platelet
donation milestone.
LifeSouth in North Alabama
Hospitals we serve in North Alabama
For a complete list of hospitals we supply, please visit our website at
www.lifesouth.org/hospitals.
Please join us in supporting LifeSouth Community Blood Centers in
this community by hosting a blood drive at your business or next
community event. LifeSouth is our community partner in saving lives in
North Alabama.
David Spillers, CEO
Huntsville Hospital
Dean Griffin, President
Decatur Morgan Hospital
Kelli S. Powers, MMHC, CEO
Athens-Limestone Hospital
C. Ross Berry, CEO
Shoals Hospital
Doug Arnold, CEO
Helen Keller Hospital
Jim Weidner, CEO
Russell Pigg, CEO
Cullman Regional Medical Center
Gary Gore, CEO
Decatur Morgan Hospital Parkway
Campus
Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital
Marshall Medical Centers
Pam Hudson, MD, CEO
Crestwood Medical Center
Kyle Buchanan, CEO
Lawrence Medical Center
Nat Richardson, Jr.,COO
Mary Lynne Wright, President
Madison Hospital
Rob Smith, CEO
HealthGroup of Alabama
Connecting our donors
to our patients
Molly lives today thanks to the amazing
gift of North Alabama blood donors
M
olly Moses has an appreciation
for life that’s deeper than most
19-year-olds because she
understands just how fragile it can
be.
On July 30, 2009 Molly was nearly
killed in a boating accident on the
Tennessee River, not far from her
home in Decatur, Ala.
In her first 24 hours at the hospital
she used 52 units of blood. She
says as a 16-year-old, who’d never
donated blood, she didn’t fully
understand just how important it was. She said she now knows it
was those donors who gave long before the accident who helped
when there wasn’t a second to lose.
“If it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t have survived,” she said.
Doctors were forced to amputate her left leg 18 days after the
accident. She’s undergone 48 separate surgeries in the past
three years, and her blood usage is up to 77 units.
And she’s still fighting. Even with all the time in and out of
Huntsville Hospital, she was determined to graduate with her
class at Decatur High School. She pursed her studies online and
consolidated her junior and senior year into one. In 2011, she
accepted the diploma in her wheelchair.
Five Points of Life
Foundation
2013 Huntsville Kids Marathon
Saturday, May 11
at 9:00 a.m.
Joe Davis Stadium
(3125 Leeman Ferry Road SW)
Participants will receive a T-shirt and Kids Marathon Medal.
Register for FREE before April 1, 2013.
To register or sponsor, visit www.fivepointsoflife.org,
email trwatts@lifesouth.org or call 256-553-8201.
Creating the Donation Generation
A request and a promise
We ask everyone to join us in our commitment to grow the community’s
blood supply.
We promise to partner with businesses and provide dynamic, fun and
innovative blood donor recruitment programs.
We promise to use every resource we have to uphold our commitment to
meet the community’s needs for blood.
Volunteering to give blood is giving the gift of life. We hold this gift in the
highest regard. Please consider partnering with us to grow the blood supply
for our community.
Donor centers
N. Alabama District Headquarters
Huntsville Donor Center
Cullman Donor Center
Huntsville Hospital Donor Center
Morgan Regional Headquarters
Danville Road Donor Center
8190 Madison Blvd.
Madison, AL 35758
256-533-8201
101 Silvey Road
Huntsville, AL 35801
256-265-6340
Marshall Regional Headquarters
Albertville Donor Center
8626 Highway 431
Albertville, AL 35950
256-894-6066
For more information, or to find
out how you can partner with us,
please contact:
Jason Hodges
District Director, North Alabama
8190 Madison Blvd.
Madison AL 35758
256-533-8201
112 Clark Street
Cullman, AL 35055
256-736-1594
2349 Danville Rd SW, Suite 120
Decatur, AL 25603
256-552-0060
Shoals Regional Headquarters
Sheffield Donor Center
1208 S. Jackson Highway
Sheffield, AL 35660
*Behind Helen Keller Hospital
256-383-3535
ECM Donor Center
205 Marengo Street
Florence, AL 32630
*Ground Floor, ECM Hospital
256-765-7038
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256-533-8201
888-795-2707
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