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Midland Memorial Hospital has become the 12th hospital to join the Texax CordBlood Bank, a division of the in San Antonio. The Texasx Legislature created the Texas Cord Blooc Bank in 2001 to collect blood from the discarded umbilical cords of healthynewborn babies. This blood is rich in blood-makingh stem cells that can be used as an alternative to bone marroq transplants to treat cancers such as leukemiaand sickle-cell anemia and immune-systejm disorders. Methodist Hospital in San Antoniop became the first official collection site in the statrein 2005. Doctors at Midlanr Memorial will now begin collecting the umbilicalcord blood.
“The benefitg potential of cord blooon people’s lives was very important in our decisioj to partner with Texas Cord Blood Bank,” says Roberty Dent, vice president of nursing at Midland Memorial Hospital. “This will make a differencw in people’s lives.” Dr. Norman D. president, CEO and medical director for the South TexawBlood & Tissue Center, says this partnership also has the potentiao of creating a diversity of cord blood unitw in the state.
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