Each year, a limited number of mothers who are delivering at a hospital that does not collect cord blood are able to donate to Be The Match Registry® for public banking at one of the cord blood banks below. (See the list of hospitals affiliated with our network of cord blood banks.) Mothers must meet medical health criteria and their obstetrician or midwife must agree to do the collection.
Contact any of these cord blood banks for more information. Let them know you would like to donate to the Be The Match Registry. (Be The Match is operated by the NMDP.)
Carolinas Cord Blood Bank
Duke University Medical Center
Box 3350
Durham, NC 27710
1 (919) 668-1116
www.cancer.duke.edu/ccbb/
Lifeforce Cryobanks
270 Northlake Blvd.
Suite 1012
Altamonte Springs, FL 32701
1 (800) 869-8608
www.cordforlife.com
M.D. Anderson Cord Blood Bank
1515 Holcombe Boulevard
Unit 423
Houston, TX 77030
1 (713) 563-8000
1 (866) 869-5111
www.mdanderson.org/cordblood
Texas Cord Blood Bank
6211 IH 10 West
San Antonio, TX 78201
1 (800) 292-5534
www.southtexasblood.org/texas_cord_blood_bank.asp