LifeServe Blood Center

LifeServe Blood Center is a nonprofit, community-based blood center that collects, tests, processes, and distributes blood products for hospitals across the Upper Midwest. The organization serves more than 170 hospitals primarily in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Illinois, and describes itself as one of the 15 largest blood centers in the United States. LifeServe operates donor centers and mobile blood drives, offering whole blood, double red cell, platelet, plasma, and related donor services. Its business is not drug development; rather, it is a healthcare operations and transfusion-medicine organization focused on maintaining a safe local blood supply for hospital patients. The current organization was formed in 2010 through the merger of The Blood Center of Iowa and Siouxland Community Blood Bank, while tracing its history back to 1947.