Our Blood Institute

  • Urgent Need for Platelet Donors

    Right now, OBI needs your help to deliver platelets to our local hospitals and community members who depend on them. When you give platelets, you're helping patients undergoing cancer treatments and major surgeries, burn victims, babies born without clotting factors, and more.

    How You Can Help

  • How to Increase (or Decrease) Your Platelet Count

    Levels that are too high or too low can be an indicator of serious underlying issues, so it's important to know if you fall outside of a healthy range.

    Do You Know Your Platelet Count?

  • Peoplejuice, Peoplejuice, Peoplejuice!

    Vein Drain 2024

    Our Halloween-inspired promotion is back with a limited edition glow-in-the-dark T-shirt! Don’t miss out.

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  • Can You Donate Blood When You Are on Your Period?

    It may seem personal, but with more than 160 million women in the United States alone, it's among the most relevant questions a person can ask! So let's talk about it?

    What to Know About Donation and Menstruation

  • BloodStream: A Show All About Blood

    At Our Blood Institute, we know just how important blood donation is. But it can also be fun! That's why we've developed a new video series. Our first episode features our amazingly talented graphic designers in a battle for the ages — check it out!

    Watch the First Episode

    This Life Brought to You by Blood Donors

    Learn about the need for blood donations from patients who have benefitted from these lifesaving gifts.

    Read Stories

    Get Paid with a Purpose

    OBI is proud to launch Donable®, a peer-to-peer app that pays users for recruiting blood donors to OBI locations. Now anyone can turn their network of friends, family, coworkers, etc. into local lifesavers. Download today!

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    • Use the Donable app to recruit blood donors, save lives and earn money!

      Join Our Team

      Make saving lives part of your work by joining our lifesaving mission.

      Find Out How