Armed Services Blood Bank Center Pacific Northwest
About
Armed Services Blood Bank Center-Pacific Northwest (ASBBC-PNW) is a tri-service organization that supports the blood requirements for four military hospitals. We also ship blood weekly, which is ultimately delivered overseas to areas with high concentrations of deployed troops.
The ASBBC-PNW wishes to thank our community for supporting the Armed Services Blood Program. Your donations have helped to ensure the high quality care our service members, retirees, family members and deployed troops richly deserve. However, the need for blood is constant. We urge people to become regular blood donors by continuing to donate throughout the upcoming weeks and months.
Please join the fight and help support our deployed soldiers by donating blood to the ASBBC-PNW. These donations are in direct support of our overseas deployments. We need our retirees and military family members to join this fight by donating blood and helping to ensure that our deployed warriors are supported with blood products.
Call us at 253-968-1850 to see what dates and times are available to come in and donate. Please leave a message, with your name and phone number, if no one answers and we will call you back.
Eligibility
| People With: |
Cannot Donate if: |
| Tattoos |
-State dependent; Washington - Acceptable if 7 days from the date of the tattoo, and completely healed. |
| Body/Ear Piercings |
- acceptable if done with single use equipment and under aseptic conditions; otherwise defer for 3 months |
| Cold/Flu and Antibiotics |
- Within past 72 hours |
| Donated Blood |
-Within past 8 weeks |
| Medical Conditions |
-Heart, liver, kidney disease; cancer, HIV, hepatitis |
| Certain Immunizations * |
-Small Pox with the past 3 weeks\
-MWR or Rubella within the past 4 weeks
-Yellow Fever within the past 2 weeks
-Some others within the past 4 weeks |
| Dental Work |
-Cleaning within the past 24 hours
-Extractions, root canals, oral surgery within the past 72 hours |
| Malaria Exposure |
-visited malaria endemic country
– in country less than 5 years, must wait 3 months.
– in country 5 years or more, must wait 3 years. |
| Malaria Exposure in Korea |
-North of Seoul (including DMZ)
- if travel is more than 24 hours must wait 3 months. |
| Pregnant or have been pregnant |
-Within the past 6 weeks |
| Weigh: Must weigh at least 116 pounds to donate Whole Blood, and must weigh at least 110 pounds to donate Apheresis Platelets or Plasma. |
| *Please bring list of immunizations and dates, and list of prescriptions |