Public Banking

If you are interested in donating your newborn baby’s cord blood the best way to find a public cord blood bank in your area is to visit the National Marrow Donor Program.

The Perinatal Stem Cell Society is working in cooperation with the Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Foundation to provide information on public cord blood banking.

A public cord blood bank is a laboratory that stores donated cord blood for potential use by transplant patients. The blood is listed on a registry by its tissue type, and the donor remains anonymous. Over half the donations received by public banks are too small to qualify for long-term storage and are used for research or discarded. If you give your child’s cord blood to a public bank, your donation may save a life, but you have no guarantee that you can retrieve the blood for use by your family later.

Today a growing percentage of stem cell transplant patients are receiving cord blood to cure over 70 diseases. Seventy percent of patients who need a transplant of blood-forming stem cells do not have a matching donor in their own family, and their physician must search public registries of donors. The National Marrow Donor Program is dedicated to matching US patients with donors of either bone marrow or cord blood. The NMDP cooperates with other registries throughout the world.

There is a shortage of bone marrow donors who match minority patients. Cord blood donations are very helpful to patients of minority or mixed heritage, because cord blood cells do not have to be matched as closely to the patient as cells from an adult bone marrow donor.

To learn more about cord blood donation, or to find out if the hospital where you will deliver accepts donations, please visit the public banking page of the Parents Guide to Cord Blood.


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