2016 Report to the Community

2016

Our Mission

To enhance the well being of patients in our service area by assuring a reliable and
economical supply of the safest possible blood, by providing innovative hemotherapy
services, and by promoting research and education programs in transfusion medicine.

Our Vision

Hoxworth Blood Center will be recognized
for saving and improving lives in our
community with safe and reliable blood
and innovative cell therapies.

Hoxworth Blood Center, University of Cincinnati, is the only blood
center in the Greater Cincinnati area. Serving an 18-county area in Ohio,
Kentucky and Indiana, Hoxworth collects, tests, processes and distributes
blood and blood components to 31 area hospitals and medical facilities.

Founded by Dr. Paul I. Hoxworth in 1938, the blood center has become
an internationally recognized leader in transfusion medicine. Today,
Hoxworth Blood Center has a staff of more than 270 full and part-time
employees in 21 departments and a complement of more than 300
volunteers.

Senior Management Community Advisory Board

Ronald A. Sacher, MD, FRCPC Richard Aft, PhD, Philanthropic Leadership
Director William Ball, MD, UC Academic Health Center
Tana Casper, University of Cincinnati Medical Center / UC Health
Gregg Boothe, MS, MT(ASCP)SBB Joyce Day-Schamer, Mercy Health – Clermont Hospital
Associate Director/Chief Operating Officer Giles DeCourcy, Mega Corp Logistics
Andrew Filak, MD, UC Academic Health Center
Jose A. Cancelas, MD, PhD Merwyn Grayson, retired, Central Bank of Northern Kentucky
Deputy Director C. Dean Gregory, Montgomery Inn
Myron Hughes
Patricia M. Carey, MD Staci Jenkins, Thompson Hine Law Firm
Medical Director, Hoxworth Blood Center Camille Jones, MD, MPH, Cincinnati Department of Health
Eric Kearney, Kearney & Kearney
Alin Girnita, MD, D-ABHI Patrick Kowalski, University of Cincinnati
Division Director, Transplantation Immunology Colleen O’Toole, PhD, The Health Collaborative
Balaji Purushothaman, Procter & Gamble
Scott Inscho, CPA Dave Roberts, GE Aviation
Division Director Finance Jamie Smith, Business Courier
Trisha Smitson, American Red Cross, Cincinnati Region
Thomas Leemhuis, PhD Michelle Steed, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Tri-State Chapter
Laboratory Director, Cellular Therapies John Svirbely, MD, Mercy Health - Clermont Hospital
Dan Vogelpohl, Fifth Third Bank
Carolyn Lutzko, PhD Julie Washington
Division Director, Regenerative Medicine
and Cellular Therapy

Thomas Renner, BS
Division Director, Manufacturing

James Tinker, BS
Division Director, Donor Recruitment
& Community Relations

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Letter from the Director

Another year has seemingly raced by in the blink of an eye! While it
seems that 2016 passed us by in record time, the truth is that the
past year Hoxworth Blood Center had us working hard on everything
ranging from A to Z—literally. From researching “A” for Antigen Reduction
to developing protocols and testing for the “Z” Zika virus, the Hoxworth
team has touched on an alphabet’s worth of guidelines, research, and
procedures.

We are likely best known for our work with “B”—you can guess that
means blood. As we serve as the only steward of the local blood supply,
our team of just over 270 individuals works to collect, test, and distribute
the safest blood possible to patients in need. This work could not be
done without the support and dedication of thousands of volunteer blood
donors who regularly roll up a sleeve and give of themselves to help
others.

Aside from “B”, we are also working diligently in the field of “R,” for
research. Our research division works tirelessly to improve methods that
ensure the quality, safety and efficacy of the blood supply. This year, our
research team has been working with the United States Department of
Defense to extend the shelf life of platelets and the use of freeze dried
plasma. Both of these studies will not only benefit the military, but will
go beyond and help the patients that we serve.

The following pages represent a sampling of our work done in the past
year. We invite you to read and celebrate the year in review. Thank you
for supporting our mission, for being true lifesavers to the patients in the
31 hospitals that we have the privilege to serve.

Ronald A. Sacher, MD
Director and Professor of Internal Medicine and Pathology
Hoxworth Blood Center
University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center

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Collection Statistics

Hospital Partners

Our hospital partners know firsthand the value of blood donation. They use blood every day to
save the lives of patients in the Tri-State. The graphic below represents the top producing hospital
partners. The list draws from 31 area hospitals that we serve in 17 counties. (The referenced
collections do not include those made by hospital employees at Neighborhood Donor Centers.)

Top Producing Hospital Blood Drive Partners

Cincinnati TriHealth 895 818
Children’s
Hospital 1,382

Medical
Center

1,875

St. Elizabeth UC Health
Health

408 356 243 232 211 168

The Christ Mercy Health Dearborn Co. V.A. Medical Shriners Margaret
Hospital Partners Hospital Center Hospitals for Mary Hospital

Children

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Collection Statistics

High School Partners

High school donors are vital to Hoxworth, representing the next generation
of loyal blood donors who will continue this act of altruism into adulthood.
Many of these partners have two or three blood drives per year and
include students, faculty, and parents in their life-saving
efforts. (The referenced collections do not include those
made by students, faculty and staff at Neighborhood
Donor Centers.)

Top Producing High School
Blood Drive Partners

Ryle HS Moeller HS Conner HS Hillsboro HS Amelia HS 105 High Schools
266 258 224 189 184 held a total of

182 blood drives;
collecting 6,654

products

Rising Mason HS Milan HS Boone Co. Cooper HS
Sun HS 147 147 Area Tech 124

170 Center

137

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Donor Story

For Jaclyne Landon, blood was just part of her day-to-day work.

Jaclyne has been a Blood Bank Technologist with “The entire experience has given me a different outlook
Hoxworth Blood Center since June of 2015, so working on blood donation and working for a blood bank,” she
with blood isn’t anything new. She’s also been a longtime said. “I was able to see the receiving end of a blood
blood donor since high school, when she realized that donation...Blood truly saved my father’s life and has
“donating was an easy way to help others and make a given me and my siblings more time with our Dad.
difference in my community,” she said. I can’t thank volunteer blood donors enough for that.”

However, blood donation got a lot more personal for And to show her appreciation, Jaclyne donated at
Jaclyne in 2016, after her own father survived a severe Hoxworth’s Central location after her father’s surgery,
trauma. An ulcer in his small intestine had caused a to “return the favor for someone else”—and she hopes
severe hemorrhage in one of his arteries, and he was others will join her.
rushed to emergency surgery to stop and reverse the
dramatic loss of blood. “I encourage people to donate, because forty minutes of
their time could give someone years of extra time.”
“He lost so much blood that he had to receive 16 units
of red blood cells, 14 units of fresh frozen plasma, and
4 units of platelets before doctors could surgically
repair his artery,” Jaclyne recalled. “His own blood
volume was replaced two times over!”

The blood transfusions were a crucial factor in his
ultimately successful surgery. While Jaclyne’s father
has since recovered, after a month recuperating in the
hospital, the experience changed the way that Jaclyne
views the blood she works with every day.

Jaclyne
Landon

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Recipient Story

Sammie
Purtee

Sammie Purtee had been donating blood for years, but The experience gave Sammie, a longtime donor, a new
learned firsthand just how crucial blood transfusions can outlook on the importance of donating blood.
be in an emergency situation.
“I always donated because it just felt like the right thing
“Several years ago, multiple blood transfusions played to do, but I had never thought about being on the other
a key role in saving my life,” Sammie said. “I was end of a blood donation,” she said. “I can honestly say
involved in a car accident, and as I was walking away without all of the transfusions, I wouldn’t have made it.
from my initial accident, an SUV lost control and came Blood donation definitely played an important role in
flying towards me.” saving my life. I’ve only been able to donate once (so
far), since my accident, but I will continue to try when I
The SUV hit Sammie going over 70 MPH; to make have the opportunity, as I know what it is like to be the
matters worse, she got stuck underneath the vehicle one needing the blood.”
as it continued down the road. Sammie was dragged
60 feet before the SUV finally hit a parked truck and “I always donated because it just felt
threw her out onto the highway. like the right thing to do, but I had

“I had many, many injuries, including blood on my brain, never thought about being on the
bruised lungs, burns from being dragged, seven broken other end of a blood donation.”
ribs, a compound fracture that almost caused me to
lose my leg, and a number of other severe abrasions,”
Sammie recalls. “Due to all of the trauma and injuries,
I lost a great deal of blood.”

Blood transfusions were critical to saving her life and
aiding her on the long road to recovery. During the first
couple of weeks after the accident, Sammie received
several transfusions to replace the blood she had
lost. And as she fought to save her leg over the next
11 months, she received a few more.

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Collection Statistics

Faith-Based Partners

Many of our partners have numerous blood drives each year in order to reach goals and
maintain a healthy competitiveness amongst one another. Our faith-based partners are
passionate about hosting blood drives, as this is a way congregants can come together and
give the gift of life through blood donation. (The collection totals do not include those
donations made by congregants at Neighborhood Donor Centers.)

Top Producing Faith-Based Blood Drive Partners

238 Trinity Lutheran St. George St. John the Evangelist
Church - Mt. Healthy Church Church - West Chester
Knights of 179
Columbus – Bright 199 174

216 Immaculate Heart of Cincinnati Sardinia
Mary Catholic Church Church of Christ Church of Christ
Christ Community Church –
Portsmouth (Cincinnati) 131 130

165 96 Blood
Drives
Corpus Christi St. Ann
Catholic Church Catholic Church collecting
3,843
111 106
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Hoxwoth Lab

Hoxworth Lab Focuses on Finding
and Phenotyping Rare Blood Types

Managing big data is a major challenge for many organizations, and the Hoxworth
Blood Center is taking that challenge head on. Finding the right donor match for a
patient is critical, especially in the case of sickle cell disease (SCD) patients. That’s
where Hoxworth’s Immunohematology Reference Laboratory (IRL) comes in.

The IRL provides testing and consultation to help hospitals fulfill patients’ needs for rare types of
blood. The IRL provides rare blood by maintaining local liquid and frozen rare blood inventories
and by participating in the American Rare Donor Program (ARDP), a national search service.

“The ARDP is designed to be a database of sorts,” says Greg Halverson, assistant director for
the IRL. “We find a rare donor, and we have to confirm phenotypically what they are. Then we
send the ARDP the donor’s information and that goes into their database.”

The ARDP is used extensively in finding donor matches for area patients living with SCD. The
treatment protocol for sickle cell is a blood transfusion, which makes it critical to find a match
for these patients as they will build up antibodies due to the large number of transfusions
throughout their lifetime. The goal is to find a match from the same genetic background which
can eliminate many of the negative reactions the patients will face if they receive blood from
a non-matched donor.

For most blood transfusions, Halverson says patients are matched with donor blood based on
their major blood types such as: O+, O-, A+, A-, B+, B-, AB+, and AB- (referred to as ABO and
Rh blood type). An estimated five percent of patients, e.g., those with sickle cell anemia,
thalassemia (Cooley’s Anemia) or leukemia, need to find blood that is specifically matched
and lacks certain antigens that the patient has developed antibodies against.

H alverson says an antigen is a type of protein on the surface of a red blood cell. When a patient
receives a transfusion of blood carrying the same antigens as his or her own blood, the donor
red cells are “welcomed.” If the patient does not have the same antigens, they may develop
antibodies to the antigens and their body may reject or react with future blood transfused with
these antigens.

P roviding incompatible blood for transfusions can cause life-threatening reactions, according
to Halverson. Hoxworth needs blood donations from more multicultural donors to maintain
a diverse inventory of antigen-negative blood, which helps avoid alloimmunization.
Alloimmunization is an immune response to foreign antigens as the result of exposure
to genetically different cells or tissues.

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Kaleb Kinebrew and his twin brother Kameron, 19, know all too well what it’s like to
live with SCD and having blood transfusions as a regular part of their lives. The brothers,
who graduated from Colerain High School and are now UC students, were diagnosed
with SCD at birth and require blood transfusions to help avoid potentially deadly
complications from the disease.
“I understand that people are afraid of needles and that (they say) they do not have
time,” said Kaleb. “I would challenge them to donate because it does not just benefit
the person in need but also their friends and family. Everyone knows someone who
has had to have a transfusion, so do it for them because someone else did it for them.
Donating blood is paying it forward.”

“There are 36 known different blood groups with well over 300 antigens,” says
Halverson. “What we’re trying to do is to study those variants and accumulate a
stock supply of donors. The basic job of the IRL is finding antigen negative units
for transfusion, managing the alloimmunization, and doing identification so we
know what antibodies are present in the donated blood.”
Sickle cell patients need, on average, 15 to 25 blood transfusions per year. About
one in every 500 African-American children are born with the disease and patients
respond best to blood with the same genetic heritage, according to Halverson.
While the need is great, only four percent of donors at Hoxworth Blood Center
are African-American.
Hoxworth has a daily goal of collecting 300 units of blood a day, and the IRL
phenotypes 60 of those donations a week in the hope of having 12,000 donors
fully typed within three or four years. That’s where the challenge of managing all
that data comes in.
“What’s not going to be easy to resolve is matching the donors to the recipients
until we have enough donors tested,” says Halverson. “The difficult part about
that is identifying the rare blood donors we need to recruit, and once we have
found them, we have to let that population know how important they are.”

It’s a painstaking and time-consuming task to catalog all the various blood types and build

that much-needed database of donors. However, Halverson and his team at the IRL

are committed to do all they can to help Kaleb and Kameron and future patients just like them.

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Collection Statistics

Business Partners

Our dedicated business partners within the Tri-State
continue to make a dramatic impact on collections.
Business partners host blood drives in offices, factories
and retail environments or on one of our mobile blood donor buses.
Our organizations are vital to Hoxworth and the patients we serve.
(These figures do not include donations that employees may have
made at a Neighborhood Donor Center.)

Top Producing Business Blood Drive Partners

600

500

400

300

200

100 621
514
491
484
374
316
262
250
213
206

0

Star Chili Third Bank ECleiPnctrcroiinccntearti&FGinaamncbilael Corporation Ethicon SoutherAnmericaKnrMogoedrern InsuraMncoentgomery Inn
Fifth General Western
Gold &

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Recipient Story

Like most parents, Bonnie Collins will do
whatever it takes to ensure the well-being
of her family—especially that of her

two daughters.

But when it comes to her daughter Maya, Bonnie needs a little “Blood product transfusions keep her alive!” Bonnie said. “I
extra help—and she is grateful to have the support of many always say that Maya is like a little vampire when she has low
blood and platelet donors, who have been essential to keeping hemoglobin—she becomes very pale and weak, but as soon as
Maya alive. she receives blood, her skin develops a healthy pink glow and
she has so much more energy. And when her platelets are low,
Maya Collins has relied on blood and platelet donors for years, Maya ‘oozes’ blood. Any small scab on her body will start to
since she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) bleed, and she is covered in bruises—it looks like she’s been
in 2011 as an 8-year-old. “The cancer ‘crowded out’ her normal in a horrible accident. But as soon as she receives a platelet
cells,” Bonnie recalled, “so she received blood as soon as she transfusion, her cuts heal quickly.”
was diagnosed, and continued to get transfusions on a regular
basis.” The need for blood products is real and constant, Bonnie said,
and patients like Maya rely on the generosity and commitment
Additionally, Maya developed myelodysplastic syndrome of regular donors for their treatment.
(MDS), which meant that her marrow had essentially gone
into failure and stopped producing healthy cells. Regular “There have been times when there have been shortages of
transfusions were necessary then, as well, to serve “as a platelets and that is genuinely scary for our family, not know-
bridge until she received a transplant of a healthy marrow ing if Maya will receive the precious platelets that she needs
that was able to produce healthy cells,” Bonnie explained. to survive,” Bonnie says. “To potential donors, I would say to
PLEASE donate as often as possible, as they will most certainly
AML has been a long road for Maya—she has been in remission be saving a life!”
but relapsed twice so far, and is currently in treatment at St.
Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Tennessee. “She received And as for those donors who already make a point to give,
her third bone marrow transplant in September of 2016,” Bonnie is “grateful beyond words.”
Bonnie said. “Since then, she’s had a few setbacks that have
suppressed her new bone marrow from producing healthy “We are so incredibly grateful to these people who we don’t
cells.” Again, blood and platelet transfusions have come to the even know who are stepping up to save our daughter’s life,”
rescue, with Maya receiving platelets about twice a week and Bonnie says. “Without them, she wouldn’t be with us today. If I
red blood cells every other week—and Bonnie could not be could say anything to those donors, I’m pretty sure I would hug
more grateful. and kiss them and then just cry like a baby!”

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Research

RePlas Research

The United States Army Medical Material Development Activity (USAMMDA)
and industry partner, Teleflex Inc., have partnered with Hoxworth Blood Center to
begin Phase I clinical trials for a freeze- dried plasma product known as RePlas™,
Freeze Dried Plasma. The Hoxworth researchers, led by Dr. Jose Cancelas, anticipate
having results in mid-2018 and hope to have FDA approval in 2019 or 2020.

The United States Army Medical Material Development Activity (USAMMDA) and industry
partner, Teleflex Inc., Plasma is the liquid portion of blood that carries platelets, white blood
cells, and red blood cells. It’s also the liquid that ferries proteins throughout the body, like
clotting factors, which help to form a clot to stop a person from bleeding. This is crucial
because without clotting factors, a person can die from blood loss before doctors can treat
the underlying problem.

On the battlefield, there’s often a shortage of blood to resuscitate trauma patients, as the
austere environment and often remote location makes the logistics (transportation, cold storage requirements,
and limited shelf life) of maintaining an adequate supply extremely difficult. In these cases, running out of blood
can mean the difference between life and death for a soldieror civilian.

The first clinical trial will establish the safety and efficacy of RePlas. The 24 participants will be treated with
their own plasma, both frozen and freeze-dried, to serve as their own control condition. The scientists will
administer, starting at a single dose, up to three doses, in order to assess how different amounts of freeze-dried
plasma function in the body. “We think that the freeze-dried plasma will probably be safe and efficacious,” says
Dr. Jose Cancelas, deputy director of the Hoxworth Blood Center and the study’s principle investigator. “I’m very
optimistic … But of course you never know, that’s why there are trials.”

Currently, medical centers in the U.S. use Fresh Frozen Plasma (FFP), which is plasma that has been frozen for
storage within 8 hours of collection. The thawing process can take 30-45 minutes, whereas freeze-dried plasma
can be reconstituted with water and deployed at a moment’s notice. A physician reconstitutes the powder with
sterile water for injection and it’s ready for use almost instantly—a critical factor when the patient is in a
situation where time is of the essence.

The study, aimed at blood resuscitation in military battlefields, will likely have far

reaching effects, as it could be beneficial to civilian trauma hospitals and

prehospital EMS settings when timing and blood supply are critical.

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Collection Statistics

College Partners

Close proximity to several colleges and universities is a great benefit
to Hoxworth. These institutions champion our mission and encourage
their students, faculty and staff to become blood donors. Many
institutions host multiple drives throughout the year over consecutive
days. In addition to the all-campus drives, there are smaller groups at the
University of Cincinnati that host their own blood drives, such as fraternity/
sorority groups, College of Law, College of Engineering, and others. (The referenced collections
do not include those made by students, faculty and staff at Neighborhood Donor Centers.)

Top Producing College 232 212 137
Blood Drive Partners

3,207 Xavier Northern Mount
University Kentucky St. Joseph
The University of University University
Cincinnati eclipsed 66
50 26
previous blood
drive results and Cincinnati State Thomas More Southern State
collected 3,207 Technical & College Community
units, making them College
the top producing Community College 13
College Partner. 6
19
Beckf i eld
Cincinnati Galen College College
College of of Nursing
Mortuary
Science

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Earned Media

2016 Media Coverage

Urgent need for blood at Hoxworth Hoxworth kicks off campaign to encourage blood
Blood Center locations | January 11, 2016 donation | August 15, 2016

Cincinnati Martin Luther King Jr. Day events Hoxworth to begin testing for Zika Virus
January 17, 2016 August 30, 2016

Op-ed: Hoxworth director gives us the facts “Giving Blood Rocks” blood drive stops at
on the Zika virus | February 16, 2016 Dave & Buster’s Saturday | September 3, 2016

Twin brothers become face for UC blood drive Donations Needed: Bengals team up with Hoxworth
April 15, 2016 Blood Center | October 3, 2016

World Blood Donor Day | June 14, 2016 Hero2Hero Blood Drive: Hoxworth sponsors vets for
Honor Flight Tri-State | November 8, 2016
Hoxworth Blood Center asks donors to help stop
Cincy’s blood supply from drying up this December Hoxworth now testing for Zika in the blood supply
December 7, 2016 November 9, 2016

Ways to give gifts to your loved ones while giving back
this holiday season | November 24, 2016

Hoxworth continues urgent plea at holiday drives
December 27, 2016

Hoxworth donates blood to Puerto Rico to help Hoxworth Blood | January 2, 2016
combat Zika virus | March 31, 2016
Hoxworth in urgent need of blood donors
Hoxworth teams up with radio stations for blood drive January 13, 2016
June 18, 2016
Type O? Hoxworth wants you | May 6, 2016
Blood donors needed for Reds Week at Hoxworth
Blood Center | June 29, 2016 Community floods blood centers after Orlando
mass shooting | June 13, 2016
Free tickets to Cincinnati Zoo offered to those
donating blood through Hoxworth | July 11, 2016 Thousands donating blood after Orlando tragedy,
but some left out | June 16, 2016

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Donate blood, get free zoo tickets | July 11, 2016 Hoxworth hoping for more blood donations over
#MissingType: Why letters A, B and O are disappearing holidays | December 22, 2016
August 18, 2016 Hoxworth Blood Center in desperate need of donations
Local blood drive is going to the dogs | October 1, 2016 January 16, 2016
Hoxworth-Bengals Blood Drive this week Hoxworth Blood Center needs donations | May 6, 2016
October 4, 2016 Reds Week | June 15, 2016
Hurricane Matthew expected to shutter coaster blood #Missing Type Campaign | August 21, 2016
banks, how you can help | October 20, 2016 Donate Blood, Get Free FC Cincinnati Tickets
Hoxworth Blood Center issues critical appeal for donors August 26, 2016
November 24, 2016 CARE Center Blood Drive | September 14, 2016
Bengals Blood Drive | October 3, 2016
Mariemont school rallies behind former student hurt in Hoxworth Blood Center Golf Outing | October 12, 2016
New Year’s ... | January 13, 2016 Call for blood donors during holidays
Hoxworth Blood Center holds 5th annual Queen City December 30, 2016
Blood Drive | January 26, 2016
Hoxworth: Critical need for Type O blood | May 6, 2016 Local Blood Shipped To Puerto Rico | March 29, 2016
Blood donations on rise in wake of Orlando tragedy,
but need still high | June 14, 2016 Cincinnati.com
Donate blood, snag free zoo tickets | July 7, 2016
Donate blood, get free FC Cincinnati tickets Hoxworth ships 75 units to Puerto Rico | March 29, 2016
August 25, 2016 Hoxworth issues ‘emergency appeal’ for type O blood
Donate blood, get free Cincinnati Zoo tickets May 9, 2016
October 18, 2016 Column: Officer Enneking—an example of the best
Cincinnati man donates 65 gallons of blood in 55 years August 10, 2016
November 2, 2016
Hoxworth calls on music lovers to donate blood Tuesday
November 15, 2016

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Fundraising

Supporting Our Mission

Hoxworth Blood Center is continuously striving to collect more blood and
recruit more donors; however, rolling up a sleeve isn’t the only way to support
our mission of saving lives.

Hoxworth Blood Center is continuously striving to collect more blood and recruit more donors; however, rolling
up a sleeve isn’t the only way to support our mission of saving lives. Financial contributions sustain and improve
a number of our day-to-day operations. Your donation can help Hoxworth maintain a stable blood supply,
purchase equipment, educate the community on blood donation, and advance our internationally recognized
research division.

There are several ways to financially support Hoxworth’s mission, but there are two main channels: Donating
as an individual, or donating as an organization.

As an INDIVIDUAL: As an ORGANIZATION:

Individuals who are interested in making financial Hoxworth gladly accepts contributions from
contributions to Hoxworth may send checks organizations, whether they are financial
(payable to Hoxworth Blood Center) to: donations or gifts in kind that Hoxworth can
use for recruitment or fundraising purposes.
Hoxworth Blood Center Organizations that are interested in making
Financial Services contributions should contact Scott Inscho,
University of Cincinnati Director of Finance, at [email protected].
PO Box 670055
Cincinnati, Ohio 45267-0055

You can also make your gift online through the UC
Foundation by visiting https://foundation.uc.edu/
give (be sure to select Hoxworth under “Fund/
Category”). If you are donating to Hoxworth Blood
Center as an individual, be sure to ask your employer
about matching gifts to double your impact!

Additionally, donors can include Hoxworth Blood
Center in their estate planning, or consider naming
Hoxworth as the recipient of memorial gifts.

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Financial Gifts

The generosity of our community helps to fulfill our mission of saving lives throughout the Tri-State. Hoxworth Blood
Center is very fortunate to have received financial contributions from numerous individuals and corporations during
fiscal year 2015. We would like to recognize and thank our generous contributors for their committment to Hoxworth
and its mission.

Access Information Management Haemonetics Dave Roberts
Richard Aft, PhD Gina Hakes William J. Ross
Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Assaley Hollywood Casino Lawrenceburg Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Sacher
David Axt Mr. and Mrs. Myron Hughes Rick Schmidt
Brad Baker iHeart Media Todd Shinkle and Goshen LSD
Bernadette Bennison Scott Inscho Jamie Smith
Sandy Benson Staci Jenkins Robert Smith
BKD, LLP Camille Jones, MD Michelle Steed
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Blessing, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Kaiser Mrs. and Mrs. Walter T. Steele
Gregg Boothe Eric Kearney Michelle Stewart
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Broderick Thomas Leemhuis, PhD John Svirbely, MD
Genora Callahan Martha Lehman Terumo BCT
Drs. Jose Cancelas-Perez and Life Center Organ Donor Network Thompson Hine
Carolyn Lutzko, MD Toyota Motor Engineering and
Maria Azucena Calvo Garcia Alice Mason
Tana Casper MegaCorp Logistics, LLC Manufacturing North America, Inc.
Michael Catanzaro Morgan Stanley (Matching gift TriHealth
Cincinnati Comic Expo UC Health
Rob Craig for Lew Assaley) UC Health Department of Surgery
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cryder National Kidney Foundation United Courier
Giles DeCourcy Deborah Nelson Houman Varghai, MD
Cindy Dwyer Drs. Colleen O’Toole and John Spencer Mr. and Mrs. Edward Vignale, Jr.
Ethicon Endo-Surgery Debbie Owsley and Gerald Glaspie J. Frederick and Helen B. Vogel Trust,
Fifth Third Bank Perfect Solutions AV LLC
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Frietch Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Phelps W. Roger Fry, Trustee
Ft. Thomas Woman’s Club Presbyterian Church of Wyoming Sherri Weiss and Wynbrook Apts.
Balaji Purushothaman Mr. and Mrs. Rich White
Village Players Mrs. and Mrs. Tom Renner Julia Witten (4C for Children Staff )
Merwyn Grayson Linda Rixner Mr. and Mrs. Raymond York
Dean Gregory

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