About
The NY Blood Center (NYBC), founded by Dr. Pablo Rubinstein, is the world's first public cord blood bank, and remains the largest single public bank in the world. NYBC is a founding member of the
Netcord international cord blood bank network, and was the first laboratory to be accredited under the international
FACT/Netcord standards. NYBC belongs to the
cohort of banks funded by HRSA to collect racially diverse donations for the national cord blood inventory.
The NY Blood Center, which in 2004 changed the name of its cord blood program to the "National Cord Blood Program", is the world's oldest and most prestigious public cord blood bank. For many years they could claim to have provided most of the cord blood used in transplants around the world. As of March 2009, cord blood inventory of the NY Blood Center was 46,144, and they had released 2906 transplants. In Sept. 2009 the NY Blood Center
joined forces with the NMDP and they now list their combined inventory.
The National Cord Blood Program collects from these U.S. hospitals:
- North Shore-LIJ Health Systems, Manhasset, NY
- Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY
- New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, NY
- Montefiore Medical Center (Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University Weiler Hospital), NYC, NY
- Mt. Sinai Medical Center, NYC, NY
- INOVA-Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA
- University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
- DeKalb Medical Center, Decatur, GA
The NY Blood Center has stopped collecting from:
Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY
