Archived Spotlight Items»
Thursday, August 6»
During the week of July 20, 37 of Susan Morris’ friends and colleagues donated blood in her honor. Thanks to everyone for showing their support. Here are a few pics:
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Jennifer Mauricio, Michelle and Rodger Harmon, Megan Lee
Steve Honey, Edith Jacobi, Carmen Fong
Gloria Zaechelein, Tim Gilmore, Mallory Hayes
Monday, August 3»
Announcing the winners of our Blanket Contest! This summer we held a contest for blankets. A huge thank-you goes out to everyone who participated as a contestant and to those who voted. Keep your eyes peeled for these beautiful works of art in action in our Centers. Drumroll, please... the winners are:
From left: 1st place: Debbie Vargas, 2nd place: Martha Franks, 3rd place: Marjorie Scooros
honorable mentions: Sarah Rahamim, Brenda & Michelle Koehler
Friday, July 31»
Earlier this month, 8 “Friends of Tyler Risk” came to our Hillview center in support of their friend by donating blood. Thanks for both honoring Tyler as well as helping boost our challenged inventory of blood products!
From left to right: Donors Amy Saunders, Jocelyn Steffen, Kharon Hathaway (Coordinator), Holly Heaven, Lydia Johnson, and Michele Kabacinski
Left: Kathleen Baldwin; right: Kharon Hathaway (with Candice Hyde)
Monday, July 27»
Donate blood at the Aloha Festival in San Francisco's Presidio. The event takes place Saturday & Sunday, August 1 & 2, from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. at the Main Post/Parade Grounds. Blood drive is noon to 5 p.m. each day. Click here to make an appointment. Mahalo!
Tuesday, July 21»
On July 17, the “Blood Dinners Group”, friends who like to donate blood and have dinner afterwards, gathered at our campus center to help out our anemic blood product inventory. We thank each and every one of our 8 donors, and look forward to your return in a couple of months!
From left to right: Carolee Hazard (Coordinator), Julie Figliozzi, Steffany Cressey, Kristin Campbell, Grace Hazard, Susan Haley, and Ellen Wilkinson.
Wednesday, July 15»
Ava’s Blood Drive was held in San Jose yesterday. Read More»
Monday, July 13»
On July 1, the friends and family of Stanford Hospital patient Mark Alexander honored their dear friend. Read More»
Monday, July 6»
We've paired up again with Stanford Jazz Workshop to give you and a friend the chance to attend a concert during their 38th Stanford Jazz Festival. Read more»
Tuesday, June 23»
A huge thanks to our Menlo Park Firefighters' Association for donating blood in a group drive at our centers! Read more»
If you're interested in holding a center-based group drive with your organization, please contact Kevin O'Neill at (650) 725-2540 or
Monday, June 1»
We had amazing participation in our blanket contest. Thank you to everyone who spent time and energy on submissions. Please check out the contestants and VOTE on your favorite!
Friday, May 29»
Thank you Urban Dog Walkers for donating blood! Read More»
Thursday, May 28»
Check out the new design(s) for our annual "Grateful Life" campaign:
This year, you have two T-shirt options!
Friday, May 8»
A special newsletter for platelet donors is in the mail. Click here for the online version and a downloadable PDF.
Tuesday, May 5»
From the U.S. Food and Drug Administration: "The ongoing outbreak of new emerging 2009 H1N1 Influenza Virus (H1N1 flu) infections in the United States has raised questions about whether this virus can be transmitted through blood transfusion. No case of transfusion transmitted seasonal influenza has ever been reported in the United States or elsewhere, and, to date, no cases of transfusion transmitted H1N1 flu have been reported. FDA is continuing to work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and is in close contact with the AABB Interorganizational Task Force on Pandemic Influenza and the Blood Supply to monitor this outbreak and its impact on blood safety and availability.
At this time, it is important to remember that, when clinically indicated, the benefits of a transfusion far outweigh the risks, including any theoretical risk of H1N1 flu transmission through blood or blood products.
View the entire article, "Information about Newly Emerging 2009 H1N1 Influenza Virus and Blood Safety" here.
Monday, May 4»
Check out these awesome members of the PAFD who donated blood last week! Read more»
Friday, April 24»
Some of our most dedicated platelet donors (who give to the max... thank you!) may be affected by a change in eligibility policy. Read more»
Wednesday, April 1»
Check out som excellent student-made videos! Many thanks to Chris Hayes, David Newell, and Josh Chan of Stanford University's Community Writing Project for developing and producing such wonderful work for us at SBC on our YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/stanfordbloodcenter.
Thursday, February 5»
Our third annual blood drive with the Sharks Foundation was a record-breaker! Read more»
photo: John Williams
Thursday, January 15»
We had an event last week to help our donors form healthy habits in 2009. It was a blast!
Thursday, November 20»
Recap of Rivals for Life blood drive competition with UC-Berlekey
Guess what? We beat Cal. Read more»
Monday, November 3»
The definition of 'loyal blood donor': Dick Tagg
Last week we held our annual Precious Mettle Breakfast, where we honor those donors who have given blood at least 100—and some up to 200, 300, 400, even 500—times. The Mercury News ran a story about some of the amazing people who were honored at this event. Click here to read the story.
Tuesday, October 28»
Just one more donation helps
Our "OneToTwo" event on October 22 was a great success! It was the first in a series of events we will host to encourage donors to add one more donation each year.
A donor shows off the goodies she picked up -
made exclusively for this event.
Blood recipient Ron Preston thanks a donor
for doing her part to save lives!
"C'mon, grand prize! Yay, AMC movie ticket!"
Wednesday, October 8»
We get by with a little help from our friends
We're so grateful to have the support of people, organizations, and companies all over the Bay Area. Click here to read about our partnership with Sports Basement.
Tuesday, October 7» Stars on and off the field
Olympic gold medal winner Nicole Barnhart (above, right) from the U.S. women’s soccer team and Stanford University soccer star Erica Holland donated blood on Oct. 3 at Stanford Blood Center’s Hillview Donor Center at 3373 Hillview Avenue in Palo Alto. They also signed autographs, and Nicole even brought her Olympic gold medal! Wow!
Wednesday, September 24: Isn't she lovely?
Our new Bloodmobile went out on it's first blood drive this week. It took placeTuesday in Santa Clara. Special thanks to Nvidia for making our new Bloodmobile's first drive a success!
August 22, 2008»
Blood donors receive cool gifts! These folks were selected from a prize drawing to each receive a soccer ball autographed by the San Jose Earthquakes soccer team.
Proud blood donors Christina Glen and Ed Dujardin. Congrats!
August 11, 2008»
August 6, 2008: Bonding experience»
Mountain View Firefighters launched a highly successful, inaugural blood drive the week of July 21. A total of 10 fire fighters and staff donated blood at one of our three centers. Many thanks to all for their invaluable assistance in meeting the acute blood product needs of our community hospitals this summer!
Firefighters Erik Roth, Patricia Juergens, Ryan Santos,
and Zack Bond enjoying their visit to our Mountain View center!
IN THE NEWS:
Stanford Blood Center's own Dr. Dolly Tyan is featured on ABC for co-developing a procedure that will raise patients' chances of finding a suitable kidney donor. For thousands of patients on dialysis, IVIG therapy is a dream come true. One of those patients is Soraya Kohanzadeh, pictured above hugging Dr. Tyan, and featured on ABC 7 in this video »