New Jersey Cord Blood Bank

New Jersey Cord Blood Bank (NJCBB)

at Community Blood Services

 

DESCRIPTION: This bank participates in the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) Cord Blood bank network. Community Blood Services is first and foremost a non-profit blood bank founded in 1953 and serving the transfusion medicine needs of central New Jersey. Their public Cord Blood banking program was originally named after the donor Elie Katz. Their private cord blood banking services continue to be known as the Elie Katz Umbilical Cord Blood Program at Community Blood Services. As of 18 Oct 2005, New Jersey is the first state to implement a statewide public cord blood bank. Unlike other states which have paid lip service to the concept, NJ actually has allocated money to process the collections. NJ Governor Codey created the program by Executive Order. Initially, the NJ program gave $300,000 each to two Stem Cell processing laboratories: Community Blood Services in Paramus and the Coriell Institute in Camden. As of 26 May 2007, the program became known as the New Jersey Cord Blood Bank and was consolidated under Community Blood Services (press release). Coriell transferred its cord blood collection and staff to the control of Community Blood Services. Coriell continues to conduct Stem Cell research. The New Jersey Cord Blood Bank (NJCBB) collects cord blood from hospitals throughout New Jersey, and from some hospitals in New York. Contact cordblood@cbsblood.org for a current list. The following hospitals have on-site collection staff, which enables donors to sign up without pre-registration:

1. Holy Name Hospital, Teaneck, NJ
2. St. Clare’s Hospital, Danville, NJ
3. St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, Paterson, NJ
4. St. Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ
5. The Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, NJ
6. Trinitas Hospital in Elizabeth, NJ

The NJCBB also collects donations at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware. This collection site is possible through a partnership with the Brady Kohn Foundation. Effective 1 Aug 2007, NJCBB will process all cord blood collections with the automated Sepax system from the Swiss company Biosafe. The processing components are the Sepax automated cell separation system and the Coolmix automated mixing and cooling device. Not only does the Sepax system use a functionally closed, single-use kit that is sterile, but also the system has a fail-safe protocol which stops processing and returns all blood to the original collection bag if the cell recovery is low. Because the processing kit comes with anti-coagulant already included, it carries BLA licensure from the FDA. More than 120,000 cord blood units have been processed with the Sepax system worldwide, mostly at public banks. In their validation of the Sepax system, NJCBB achieved 86% recovery of CD34+ marked Stem Cells.

COLLECTS FOR: Transplants

COLLECTS FROM: 28 hospitals in New Jersey, 18 hospitals in New York, 1 hospital in Delaware.

INTERNET: www.communitybloodservices.com/cord_blood_1_program.htm

PHONE: 866-SAVCORD

STORAGE: Paramus, NJ

TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: BMDW, NMDP

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