Family Cord Blood Services

Family Cord Blood Services

INTERNET: www.familycordbloodservices.com

PHONE: 888-828-2673

OFFICE: Los Angeles, CA

STORAGE: Los Angeles, CA

Accreditation: AABB, CA, NY

COMMENT: Family Cord Blood Services is a subsidiary of California Cryobank, one of the nation’s leading sperm banks and a provider of various cryogenic services for 30 years.

SERVICES & DISCOUNT OPTIONS:

• Family Cord Blood Services was founded in 1997 and operates from its own dedicated laboratory and storage facility.
• The Stem Cell laboratory has provided several transplants of Stem Cells harvested from the donor’s blood by apheresis, and two cord blood transplants.
• Cord blood collections are manually processed by licensed clinical laboratory technologists.
• The processing method is red cell depletion with the chemical hespan; the two steps are sedimentation and centrifugation.
• The final sample of MonoNuclearCells has a volume of 25ml and is stored in a dual compartment bag with 20ml and 5ml portions. Three testing segments are attached to the storage bag.
• Total first year fees are $1650 for processing plus storage. No late enrollment fees.
• For domestic collections, the processing fee includes medical courier service with AirNet.
• For international collections, $150 is deducted from the processing fee, but the client is responsible for the cost of courier service with Quick International.
• Returning clients get a $400 discount.
• Parents who are pregnant via donor sperm from California Cryobank are eligible for CCB Cord Blood Advantage Program, which offers cord blood banking for an additional fee of only $645 (over $1000 discount!)
• Special discounts for military personnel, students, and multiple births: call to inquire.
• Discounts available for pre-paid storage times.
• Payment plans start at $45/month.
• Physician fees for cord blood collection are not reimbursed.
• Parents can select a Public Donation Option^SM at the time of enrollment (started Aug2005). In order to be eligible, the maternal blood test and the cord blood must both pass all the medical requirements for public donation, and the parents must agree to privately store the cord blood for 10 years before releasing it. This program costs an additional $250, which goes towards the $400 cost of HLA typing the cord blood so that it can be listed on a donor registry. If the unit is released for a transplant, parents are reimbursed for the processing and any storage fees.

ADDITIONAL information: The parent company of Family Cord Blood Services, California Cryobank Sperm Bank, was founded in 1977 by two physicians, Dr. Cappy Rothman and Dr. Charles Sims. Since then, California Cryobank has grown to serve all 50 US states and more than 30 countries worldwide. With the advent of technology to process Stem Cells for freezing, and the development of medical therapies based on cord blood Stem Cells, in 1997 California Cryobank opened their Stem Cell Services division and became the first private cord blood bank in California. Their stem cell laboratory has always been completely separate from the sperm bank. Their medical advisory board includes hematologist Dr. Michael Lill and director of laboratory operations Eddie Jacildo, DLM,MT,CLS. In 2005, the cord blood bank changed its name and location. The old name was California Cryobank Cord Blood Bank. The lab moved less than a mile from Santa Monica to a larger, state-of-the-art facility in Los Angeles. The company continues to be privately held and operated by the same staff who have presided over its growth. alternate web site: www.mycordblood.com

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