Hospital Services, the distribution arm of Kentucky Blood Center (KBC), serves as KBC’s main contact with blood bank staff in hospitals and clinics in more than 60 counties throughout Kentucky. Hospital Services staff takes orders for blood components, discusses blood inventory issues and works with hospital blood bank staff to make sure they have enough blood on hand for patients.
Hospital Services Representatives are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for KBC customers.
Industry issues
America’s Blood Centers’ Blood Bulletin:
- America’s Blood Centers’ Blood Bulletin: “Managing a Serologic Weak D Phenotype”
- America’s Blood Centers’ Blood Bulletin: “Preoperative Autologous Blood Donations & Orthopedic Surgery”
- America’s Blood Centers’ Blood Bulletin: “Patient Blood Management: Beyond Sensible Use of Blood for Better Outcomes”
- America’s Blood Centers’ Blood Bulletin: “Meeting the Needs of Jehovah’s Witness Patients”
- America’s Blood Centers’ Blood Bulletin: “Alloimmunization of RhD Following Platelet Transfusion”
- America’s Blood Centers’ Blood Bulletin: “Oral Platelet Inhibitory Drugs and Bleeding Complications: Implications for Transfusion”
AABB Association Bulletin:
- AABB Recommendations on the Use of Group O Red Blood Cells
- AABB Billing Guide for Transfusion and Cellular Therapy Services
- AABB Association Bulletin 14-02 – TRALI Mitigation
- AABB Association Bulletin 15-02 – Transfusion Associated Circulatory Overload (TACO)
- AABB Association Bulletin 16-02 – Mitigating the Anti-CD38 Interference with Serologic Testing
- AABB Association Bulletin 16-07 – Updated Recommendations for Zika, Dengue, and Chikungunya Viruses
- KBC Hospital Update on COVID-19 – March 12, 2020
- KBC Statement on Appropriate Use of Group O RhD Negative Red Blood Cells
- KBC Statement on TRALI Mitigation Compliance
- Facts About Blood
- Circular of Information
KBC licenses
- KBC Department of Health and Human Services Establishment License
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments Certificate of Accreditation
- KBC_AABB Certificate
- Commonwealth of Kentucky Laboratory
- KBC Dendreon Collection Site Certification
- KBC EU Certificate of Compliance
Contact numbers
Hospital Services: 859.519.3775
Order Hotline: 859.255.9871
Hospital Services Fax: 859.277.3005
Reference Lab: 859.519.3816
Hospital Services Director: 859.519.3776
Medical Director: 859.276.2534, ext. 3711 (Regular Business Hours)
Quality Assurance: 859.519.3785