Starting next January, blood donors in Juneau will have a permanent location to contribute to the Blood Bank of Alaska.<\/p>\n
BBA announced Tuesday that it’s planning to make the capital city the location of their fifth permanent donation office. The office, slated for a space in Jordan Creek Center on Glacier Highway, joins two offices in Anchorage, one in Fairbanks and one in Wasilla.<\/p>\n
Blood donors previously scheduled donations at a mobile donation center which periodically came to the capital city. BBA has long discussed a permanent center in Juneau, according to its CEO Robert Scanlon.<\/p>\n
“The community of Juneau has been an amazing support and have saved thousands of lives across the state,” Scanlon said in a prepared statement. “Their commitment is an inspiration and we are so proud to now be a daily part of their community.”<\/p>\n
The center will include space for expanded services, a release states, and a more comfortable experience for donors than the mobile donation office.<\/p>\n
BBA is an Alaska-based nonprofit founded in 1962. It’s the only organization collecting blood in Alaska.<\/p>\n
The blood collected from volunteer blood donors supports 21 hospitals and Alaska Native and military medical facilities.<\/p>\n
The bank had come under scrutiny in 2016 after a group of six employees filed two complaints<\/a> with the Federal Drug Administration, alleging financial and operational misconduct<\/a>.<\/p>\n Phone calls made to a BBA media representative weren’t returned Tuesday.<\/p>\n \u2022 Contact reporter Kevin Gullufsen at 523-2228 and kgullufsen@juneauempire.com. Follow him on Twitter at @KevinGullufsen.<\/b><\/p>\n Starting next January, blood donors in Juneau will have a permanent location to contribute to the Blood Bank of Alaska.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":1890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[209],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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