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United States

Cord Blood Banks

Public Cord Blood Banks:

  • Saneron CCEL

    • Tampa, FL

    • saneron-ccel.com

  • Upstate Cord Blood Bank

    • Syracuse, NY

    • upstatecordbloodbank.com

  • BloodworksNW

    • Seattle, WA

    • bloodworksnw.org

  • San Diego Cord Blood Bank

    • San Diego, CA

    • sandiegobloodbank.org

  • Gencure: Texas Cord Blood Bank

    • San Antonio, TX

    • gencure.org

  • ITxM: The Institute For Transfusion Medicine

    • Rosemont, IL

    • givecord.org

  • J.P. McCarthy Cord Stem Cell Bank

    • Rochester Hills, MI

    • karmanos.org

  • St. Louis Cord Blood Bank

    • Park Avenue, St.

    • Louisslcbb.org

  • New Jersey Cord Blood Bank

    • Paramus, NJ

    • communitybloodservices.org

  • CHOC Cord Blood Bank

    • Orange, CA

    • choc.org

  • Oklahoma Blood Institute

    • Oklahoma City, OK

    • obi.org

  • University of Iowa Cord Blood Bank

    • North Liberty, IA

    • uihealthcare.org

  • Life Line Stem Cell

    • New Haven, IN

    • lifelinestemcell.org

  • NY Blood Center: National Cord Blood

    • Long Island City, NY

    • nationalcordbloodprogram.org

  • MD Anderson Cord Blood Bank

    • Houston, TX

    • mdanderson.org

  • Michigan Blood

    • Grand Rapids, MI

    • miblood.org

  • LifeCord Life South

    • Gainesville, FL

    • lifecord.org

  • Carolinas Cord Blood Bank

    • Durham, NC

    • ccbb.duke.edu

  • Cleveland Cord Blood Center

    • Cleveland, OH

    • clevelandcordblood.org

  • California's Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program

    • California, CA

    • ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/cordblood

  • Gift of Life

    • Boca Raton, FL

    • giftoflife.org

  • StemCyte

    • Baldwin Park, CA

    • stemcyte.com

  • ClinImmune: University of Colorado Cord Blood Bank

    • Aurora, CO

    • clinimmune.com

  • Core 23 BioBank

    • Springfield, Missouri

    • core23biobank.com

  • CORD:USE

    • Orlando, FL

    • corduse.com

  • Celebration Stem Cell Centre

    • Gilbert, AZ

    • celebrationstemcellcentre.com

Private Cord Blood Banks:

  • ViaCord

    • Waltham, MA

    • viacord.com

  • Core23 BioBank

    • Springfield, MO

    • core23biobank.com

  • Evercord TM (A Natera Brand)

    • Seattle WA

    • evercord.com

  • Cord Blood Registry

    • San Bruno, CACordBlood.com

  • Maze Cord Blood

    • Purchase NY

    • mazecordblood.com

  • Cryo-Cell International

    • Oldsmar, FL

    • cryo-cell.com

  • Americord

    • New York, NY

    • americordblood.com

  • Cord Blood Solutions

    • Montvale, NJ

    • cordbloodsolutions.com

  • Safetycord

    • Montvale, NJ

    • safetycord.com

  • Stork Medical

    • Montvale, NJ

    • stork.md

  • Assure Immune

    • Miami, FL

    • assureimmune.com

  • New England Cord

    • Marlborough, MA

    • cordbloodbank.com

  • Family Link

    • Louisville, KY

    • nortonhealthcare.com

  • Family Cord

    • Los Angeles, CA

    • familycord.com

  • PacifiCord

    • Irvine, CA

    • pacificord.com

  • Texas Stem Cell

    • Houston, TX

    • texasstemcell.com

  • CorCell

    • Helm Drive, NV

    • corcell.com

  • GeneCell International

    • Doral, FL

    • genecell.com

  • MiracleCord

    • Chicago, IL

    • miraclecord.com

  • LifebankUSA

    • Cedar Knolls, NJ

    • lifebankusa.com

  • Cryopoint: Biorepository

    • Brownsburg, IN

    • cryopointllc.com

  • Stem Cell Cryobank

    • Boynton Beach, FL

    • stemcellcryobank.com

  • CariCord

    • Aurora, CO

    • caricord.com

  • Genecord

    • Augusta, GA

    • genecord.com

  • Xytex

    • Augusta, GA

    • xytextissues.com

  • AlphaCord

    • Atlanta, GA

    • alphacord.com

  • Lifeforce Cryobanks (Cord for Life SM )

    • Altamonte Springs, FL

    • cordforlife.com

Hybrid Cord Blood Banks

Public Cord Blood Banks

Cryo-Cell

700 Brooker Creek Blvd, Oldsmar FL 34677, Oldsmar

Cryo-Cell International, the world's first family cord blood bank, provides premier cord blood stem cell cryopreservation service. Cryo-Cell acquired the CORD:USE public bank in June 2018 and continues to operate their network of cord blood donation hospitals.

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LifebankUSA

45 Horsehill Road, Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927

LifebankUSA seeks mothers in NEW YORK & NEW JERSEY ONLY who will donate both their cord blood and their placenta. The donations support an international registry, clinical trials and research.  Donations can be taken from any hospital, but mothers must register at least 8 weeks prior to delivery and pass a health screening.

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StemCyte

13800 Live Oak Ave., Baldwin Park, CA 91706

StemCyte is a global cord blood therapeutics company.  StemCyte participates in the US network of public cord blood banks operated by Be The Match. In addition, StemCyte operates the National Cord Blood Bank of Taiwan, whose units are also listed with Be The Match.

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BloodworksNW

921 Terry Avenue., Seattle

Bloodworks Northwest (formerly Puget Sound Blood Center) collects cord blood donations directly in Washington state, and also receives donations from Hawaii.

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California's Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program

2921 Stockton Boulevard., Sacramento

The Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program (UCBCP) is a California state program administered by the University of California Davis Health System.

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Carolinas Cord Blood Bank

2301 Erwin Road.NC 27710, Durham

Carolinas Cord Blood Bank at Duke (CCBB) is headed by Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg. Expectant parents who have a child in need of therapy with cord blood, especially the new therapies in clinical trials at Duke, may be eligible for directed donation through CCBB.

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Celebration Stem Cell Centre

3495 South Mercy Rd., AZ 85297 , Gilbert

The Celebration Stem Cell Centre (CSCC), offers both public donation and private "family banking" of umbilical cord blood.  All cord blood collections are processed according to the highest standards in the industry in a new, state-of-the art facility located in Gilbert, Arizona.  The public cord blood donation program is funded by the private "family banking" program and private philanthropy.

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CHOC Cord Blood Bank

1201 W La Veta Ave, Orange, CA 92868, Orange

Children's Hospital of Orange County has a cord blood program that accepts donations from births at the next door St. Joseph's Hospital.

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Cleveland Cord Blood Center

25001 Emery Rd #150, Warrensville Heights, OH 44128

Abraham J. & Phyllis Katz Cord Blood Foundation d.b.a. Cleveland Cord Blood Center collects donations in Cleveland and Atlanta.

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ClinImmune

12705 E. Montview Blvd, Suite 250, Aurora

ClinImmune Labs is an academic-based biotechnology company that processes cord blood donations for the University of Colorado Cord Blood Bank and the St. Louis Cord Blood Bank.

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Cord Blood Bank of Arkansas

4301 W. Markham St., Little Rock

The Cord Blood Bank of Arkansas launched operations in 2011, providing both public donation and family banking services. They accept donations from ANY HOSPITAL IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS.  They also accept donations from bordering states so long as the donor is an Arkansas resident.

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Cord For Life

270 Northlake Boulevard, Altamonte Springs FL 32701 ,

Cord for Life accepts Mothers must register by week 34 of pregnancy.

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Gencure: Texas Cord Blood Bank

First Park Ten Blvd, San Antonio, TX 78213, San Antonio

Texas Cord Blood Bank is a division of the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, and since 2014 is affiliated with GenCure.

800 Yamato Road. Suite 101, Boca Raton Gift of Life is a non-profit charity that seeks to help Jewish patients find a transplant match.  They recruit both bone marrow donors and cord blood donations from the Jewish community.  Gift of Life operates their own accredited cord blood laboratory that participates in the national NMDP network.

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J.P. McCarthy Cord Stem Cell Bank

4100 John R. Street, Detroit

The J.P. McCarthy cord blood bank was founded in memory of a morning radio show host in Detroit. It is run by the Karmanos Cancer Institute.

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Life Line Stem Cell

124 Lincoln Hwy W., New Haven

Life Line Stem Cell asks mothers arriving for delivery to donate all perinatal tissue: cord blood, cord tissue, and the placenta. Cord blood donations that are eligible for transplant are sent to a public cord blood bank; the tissue collections go towards research programs.

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LifeCord LifeSouth

4039 Newberry Road, Gainesville FL 32607, Gainesville

Lifecord is a cord blood donation program of LifeSouth Community Blood Centers. LifeCord was the first public cord bank established in the Southeastern United States.

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MD Anderson Cord Blood Bank

1515 Holcombe Blvd. Unit 423., Houston

M.D. Anderson hospital has the largest stem cell transplantation program in the world, and in April 2005 they established a public cord blood bank that is accredited under the international standards.

 

Michigan Blood
1036 Fuller NE. PO Box 1704 Grand Rapids, Michigan

Michigan Blood mails the cord blood donation kit to the expectant mother but only accepts collections from deliveries at selected hospitals.

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NY Blood Center: National Cord Blood Program

45-01 Vernon Blvd., NY, Long Island City

Collection hospitals for the NY Blood Center do NOT require advance registration: mothers can give a partial consent to collect the cord blood during labor, and only if the collected cord blood is suitable for transplantation will the mothers will be given additional education and asked for a final banking consent post-delivery.
 

Oklahoma Blood Institute

1001 N. Lincoln Blvd., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City

Oklahoma Blood Institute (OBI) is launching a public cord blood bank in 2018.

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San Diego Cord Blood Bank

3636 Gateway Center Avenue., San Diego

The San Diego Cord Blood Bank has received funding from the California Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program that enables them to  collect donations.

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Upstate Cord Blood Bank

4910 Broad Road, Syracuse, NY 13215, Syracuse

SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse NY hosts a new public (& soon family) cord blood bank, launched in February 2017.

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Vitalant New Jersey

102 Chestnut Ridge Road, Montvale NJ 07645, Montvale

Vitalant New Jersey (formerly Community Blood Services) can accept cord blood donations without pre-registration at participating hospitals that have on-site staff.  Donations are also accepted from certain hospitals via partnerships with local charities.

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SOURCE: https://parentsguidecordblood.org

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Private Cord Blood Banks

ViaCord

930 Winter Street
Waltham, MA 02451

 

For nearly 20 years, ViaCord's mission has been to provide the highest quality stem cell preservation service and care to our patients, families, and their physicians. We believe these words are much more than just a promise. They are the commitment we live by.

 

Evercord

921 Terry Avenue
Seattle, WA 9810

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Evercord uses the laboratory of the public bank BloodworksNW. The laboratory was founded in 1944, has been banking cord blood for 20 years, has released over 1,000 cord blood units for transplant to more than 100 hospitals around the world, and is accredited by AABB.

 

Cord Blood Registry

611 Gateway Blvd (Suite 820) South
San Francisco, CA 94080

 

Cord Blood Registry® (CBR®) is the world's largest newborn stem cell company. CBR is dedicated to advancing the clinical application of newborn stem cells by partnering with leading research institutions to establish FDA-regulated clinical trials, requiring CBR processed cord blood, for conditions that have no cure today.

 

Cryo-Cell

700 Brooker Creek Blvd.
Oldsmar FL 34677

 

Cryo-Cell International, the world's first family cord blood bank, provides premier cord blood stem cell cryopreservation service. Cryo-Cell acquired the CORD:USE public bank in June 2018 and continues to operate their network of cord blood donation hospitals.

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New England Cord Blood Bank

500 Donald J. Lynch Blvd.
Marlborough, MA 01752

 

New England Cord Blood Bank (NECBB), an affiliate of New England Cryogenic Center, is a private, family owned and operated cord blood bank. As pioneers in the industry with over 40 years of experience, NECBB is recognized as a global leader in the cryopreservation of cord blood and umbilical cord tissue serving countries worldwide.

 

LifebankUSA

45 Horsehill Road
Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927

 

LifebankUSA seeks mothers in NEW YORK & NEW JERSEY ONLY who will donate both their cord blood and their placenta. The donations support an international registry, clinical trials and research.  Donations can be taken from any hospital, but mothers must register at least 8 weeks prior to delivery and pass a health screening.

 

StemCyte

13800 Live Oak Ave.
Baldwin Park, CA 91706

 

StemCyte is a global cord blood therapeutics company.  StemCyte participates in the US network of public cord blood banks operated by Be The Match. In addition, StemCyte operates the National Cord Blood Bank of Taiwan, whose units are also listed with Be The Match. BloodworksNW 921 Terry Avenue., Seattle Bloodworks Northwest (formerly Puget Sound Blood Center) collects cord blood donations directly in Washington state, and also receives donations from Hawaii.

 

MiracleCord

75 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 3100 Chicago, IL 60611

 

MiracleCord is a family cord blood bank with laboratory facilities that are AABB-accredited for both cord blood and cord tissue banking.

 

FamilyCord

11915 La Grange Ave

Los Angeles, CA 90025

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FamilyCord is a physician-founded leader in cord blood and cord tissue banking that is guided by the highest scientific and ethical standards.

 

Americord

139 Fulton St #707

New York, NY 10038

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Maze Cord Blood Laboratories

2975 Westchester Avenue,

Purchase, NY 10577

 

MAZE is not AABB-accredited, they are a marketing company that sub-contracts to the AABB accredited laboratory at Community Blood Services in Montvale, NJ.

 

AlphaCord

1777 Northeast Expressway NE Suite 180 Atlanta, GA 30329

 

Atlanta Celebration Stem Cell Centre

3495 South Mercy Rd.

Gilbert, AZ 85297

 

The Celebration Stem Cell Centre (CSCC), offers both public donation and private "family banking" of umbilical cord blood.  All cord blood collections are processed according to the highest standards in the industry in a new, state-of-the art facility located in Gilbert, Arizona.  The public cord blood donation program is funded by the private "family banking" program and private philanthropy.

 

Cleveland Cord Blood Center

25001 Emery Rd #150

Warrensville Heights, OH 44128

 

Abraham J. & Phyllis Katz Cord Blood Foundation d.b.a. Cleveland Cord Blood Center collects donations in Cleveland and Atlanta.

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ClinImmune

12705 E. Montview Blvd, Suite 250, Aurora

 

ClinImmune Labs is an academic-based biotechnology company that processes cord blood donations for the University of Colorado Cord Blood Bank and the St. Louis Cord Blood Bank.

 

Cord For Life

270 Northlake Boulevard, Altamonte Springs FL 32701

 

Cord for Life accepts NATIONAL MAIL-IN DONATIONS. Mothers must register by week 34 of pregnancy.

 

CryoCyte

1533 E. Northfield Dr.,46112 , Brownsburg

 

CryoCyte is a service of Cryopoint LLC biorepository. CryoCyte has been privately banking cord blood for over 12 years.

 

Family Link

231 East Chestnut Street 

Louisville, KY 40202

 

Family Link is a program of Norton Healthcare, a not-for-profit organization which operates dozens of hospitals throughout Kentucky and Southern Indiana.   The cord blood banking program only accepts clients within a 4 hour driving distance of metro Louisville.  Their lab is based at Norton Children's Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Gencure: Texas Cord Blood Bank

First Park Ten Blvd, San Antonio, TX 78213

 

Cord Blood Bank is a division of the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, and since 2014 is affiliated with GenCure.

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Michigan Blood

1036 Fuller NE. PO Box 1704, Grand Rapids Michigan

Michigan Blood mails the cord blood donation kit to the expectant mother but only accepts collections from deliveries at selected hospitals.

 

OneBlood

10100 Dr Martin Luther King Jr St N.
Saint Petersburg, FL

 

OneBlood was born from the merger of three major Florida blood centers in Jan 2012. OneBlood serves the blood transfusion needs of about 80% of Florida's population and is the nation's third largest blood program.

 

PacifiCord

185 Technology Drive,CA 92618

 

Irvine PacifiCord, a family cord blood bank in Irvine, CA, uses optimal processing and storage technology for long-term cord blood stem cell cryopreservation.

 

San Diego Cord Blood Bank

3636 Gateway Center Avenue., San Diego

 

The San Diego Cord Blood Bank has received funding from the California Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program (UCBCP) that enables them to  collect donations.

 

Stem Cell Cryobank

10301 Hagen Ranch Road,FL 33437

 

Boynton Beach Stem Cell Cryobank is an AABB accredited & FDA registered facility that processes and stores cord blood and adult stem cells since 2003. The Stem Cell Cryobank is affiliated with the South Florida Bone Marrow/Stem Cell Transplant Institute (bmscti.org).

 

Montvale Vitalant

102 Chestnut Ridge Road

Montvale, NJ 07645

 

Montvale Vitalant New Jersey (formerly Community Blood Services) can accept cord blood donations without pre-registration at participating hospitals that have on-site staff.  Donations are also accepted from certain hospitals via partnerships with local charities.

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SOURCE: https://parentsguidecordblood.org

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