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Our History
Stewart Regional Blood Center has a long history of serving East Texas. In 1951, Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Stewart provided the gifts of the building and equipment, while the East Texas Hospital Foundation provided the land, and the Tyler Service League (now the Junior League of Tyler, Inc.) provided operating capital and volunteers. The W.E. and Lela I. Stewart Blood Bank was dedicated “to all mankind in need of the blood of life” on the couple’s golden wedding anniversery.
Four members of the Tyler Service League (The Junior League of Tyler) As pictured in the Tyler Courier-Times-Telegraph Sunday, April 15, 1951 (Mrs. Earle B. Mayfield, Jr., Mrs. Philip Dibert, Mrs. Albert Morriss, and Mrs. L. A. Dean)
Blood Bank on Wheels . Technician, Betty Jackson and Mrs. A. D. Clark of the Tyler Service League (The Junior League of Tyler) exhibit a packing case in which refrigerated blood units were carried. As pictured in the Tyler Courier-Times-Telegraph 1954.
50 Years Later
Stewart Regional Blood Center has been serving the greater East Texas community for 55 years. Stewart Regional Blood Center operates a fully operating blood collection facility, complete with 120 full-time staff, at six different locations throughout the service area, including Longview, Lufkin, Marshall, Mount Pleasant, Paris, and Tyler. Mobile units travel throughout the region to assist the facilities in collecting over 35,000 units of blood annually.
Meeting the need for voluntarily donated blood continues to present a daily challenge. As the primary blood center serving 24 counties, Stewart Regional Blood Center is responsible for meeting the demand for over 200 units of blood daily by patients in 30 healthcare institutions. Stewart Regional Blood Center’s mission is to provide a safe and sufficient blood supply to the community . We are proud to be the blood center for East Texas serving more than one million people.
Stewart Regional Blood Center collects approximately 3,000 units per month through in-center donations and mobile blood drives. Approximately 50% of all units are collected on mobile drives. Currently, with three mobile coaches (self-contained air conditioned/heated blood collection unit), five passenger vans (transport staff and equipment for on-site blood drives) and six collection facilities, Stewart Regional Blood Center collects approximately 35,000 units per year. In 2004, the blood center released approximately 33,000 units of blood and blood products for transfusion.
Since 1985, Stewart Regional Blood Center’s HLA (Human Leukocyte Antigen) Laboratory has provided tissue typing for over 347 East Texas Medical Center renal transplants. Our HLA Laboratory is the only crossmatching laboratory in greater East Texas. Stewart Regional Blood Center, in conjunction with the National Marrow Donor Program, also operates a Marrow Donor Registry, which to date has matched 40 marrow donors with recipients from all over the world.
Stewart Regional Blood Center serves the following Texas counties: Anderson, Angelina, Camp, Cherokee, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison, Henderson, Hopkins, Houston, Kaufman, Lamar, Marion, Morris, Panola, Rains, Red River, Rusk, Smith, Titus, Trinity, Upshur, Van Zandt, and Wood
Stewart Regional Blood Center is a not-for-profit, 501 (c)(3) organization, EIN#75-0837636. Stewart Regional Blood Center is a member of America’s Blood Centers, the American Association of Blood Banks, South Central Association of Blood Banks, and is FDA licensed and certified by the American Association of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics.
Our Mission
“To Provide a safe and sufficient blood supply to the community”
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815 South Baxter Avenue, Tyler, Texas 75701
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