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Cord Blood Solutions, LLC is a Physician-Inspired company, with the purpose of providing expectant parents/families with the highest quality medical resource regarding the harvesting (collecting) and processing (storing) of their baby’s umbilical cord blood stem cells. It is the goal of our Physician founder, Dr. Alan Einstein, to provide parents with the a medical resource to accurately answer questions regarding the concepts and collection procedures involved with cord blood, as well as to give parents a secure and trusted environment to store these precious cells.
Cord Blood stem cells have already ‘treated’ or ‘cured’ many diseases. However, the only chance to collect your child’s cord blood stem cells is at the delivery of your child.
Currently, stem cells from the umbilical cord have already “treated” or “cured” many diseases, including leukemias and sickle cell disease, and the future possibilities appear plentiful. Furthermore, these umbilical cord blood stem cells are not solely useful for the donor baby, rather they have been used successfully for siblings and parents of that child as well. As the science and technology advanced to the point of actual clinical benefit, Dr. Einstein founded Cord Blood Solutions, a physician-inspired company, to provide the highest quality medical resource(s) for expectant parents, and to ensure the highest medical standard for harvesting(collecting) and preserving(storing) their baby’s umbilical cord blood. Since a family has only one chance to collect these precious cells, during delivery, we make every attempt to educate your delivering medical professional(s) on the processes and procedures that yield the best sample as possible.
Dr. Alan Einstein interestingly became involved with the concepts of “stem cells” after his father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. In hopes of finding a cure it was evident to him that standard medical technology was incapable of curing this progressively debilitating disorder, and there was no “hope” for the future. At that time, stem cells were new, innovative and on the cutting-edge of medical technology and appeared to have potential unlike anything else in medicine. Most importantly, stem- cells provided ‘hope’ for the future. As a Physician and graduate of The Johns Hopkins University/Sinai Hospital program in Medicine, Dr. Einstein chose to pursue the Umbilical Cord Blood (UCB) stem cell path over their controversial Embryonic stem cell counterpart. Currently, Dr. Einstein lectures around the country teaching medical professionals about the advances, benefits and concepts of cord blood stem cells. Since he is so passionate about the educational component regarding these concepts, he also makes himself readily available to speak directly with expectant parents.
Community Blood Services blood bank is located in Paramus, NJ. The lab maintains all required regulatory licenses and certificates of accreditation:
- Health Care Finance Administration Certificate (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act ‘88)
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission License Accreditation by the American Association of Blood Banks
- American Assoc. of Blood Banks ~ Nat’l Marrow Donor Program ~ American Assoc. of Tissue Banks ~ Society of Cryobiology
- Accreditation by the American Society of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics
- New Jersey State Department of Health Clinical Laboratory and Blood Bank licenses
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This is an internationally known, AABB accredited cord blood banking facility, in operation since 1954. They have been processing cord blood since 1996, with over 47 successful transplants as of July 2007. Open 24 hours a day, Community Blood Services, has processed more than one million units of blood. They offer state-of the-art processing technology that guarantees maximum recovery and maximum quality of the cord blood harvested. Stem cell samples are tested and processed following rigorous quality assurance procedures and under the guidance of an experienced cryobiologist. Testing and processing of the cord blood is performed no later than 48 hours after the harvesting. Red blood cells are removed from the cord blood, and the remaining white cells are concentrated and frozen. The frozen cells are then stored in liquid nitrogen and placed in a storage facility within the blood center. The storage
facility is equipped with a back-up electrical power generator and battery back-up system. Temperatures are supervised around-the-clock by blood center technicians and monitored by an independent company. Our highly trained laboratory personnel use a sophisticated multi-coding system to assure the
integrity of each sample during all phases of processing, storage and delivery. |