Blood and Platelets Donation Qualifications
To ensure the safety of patients and donors, certain qualifications must be met before giving. Units of blood and platelets collected at City of Hope are used for City of Hope patients only.

Blood Drives
The men, women and children in our care depend on the generosity of people like you. The blood or platelets you donate provides a direct lifeline to hope.

National Marrow Donor Program (Be The Match Registry^SM)
The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) is the largest, most diverse marrow and blood stem cell registry in the world, facilitating critically needed transplants for patients with leukemia and other life-threatening diseases across the country. Thirty percent of all patients who need a bone marrow transplant will find a suitable donor within his or her family. The other 70 percent of patients rely on unrelated volunteer donors who have joined the NMDP's Be The Match Registry.

City of Hope is an NMDP-designated Donor Center, Collection Center, Apheresis Center and Transplant Center. Click here to learn how to register and donate peripheral blood stem cells and marrow.