Montefiore Medical Center

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.  NYBC was the first cord blood bank in the US to obtain an FDA license for their cord blood product, which they have named HEMACORD™.

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 began listing their cord blood inventory on the NMDP registry as well.

As of June 2012, the National Cord Blood Program collects from these U.S. hospitals:

1. Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY
2. New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, NY
3. Montefiore Medical Center (Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University Weiler Hospital), NYC, NY
4. INOVA-Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA
5. University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
6. DeKalb Medical Center, Decatur, GA

The NY Blood Center has stopped collecting from:

Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY
Mt. Sinai Medical Center, NYC, NY
North Shore-LIJ Health Systems, Manhasset, NY