Community Blood Center

Solvita, formerly the Community Blood Center, harvested donated skull and hip bones and made it flexible to cover the boys heads.

The former Community Blood Center/Community Tissue Bank has changed its name to Solvita. "Sol" meaning "sun" and "vita" meaning "life."

Skin allografts from Community Tissue Services in Dayton are being used in Hawai'i to help treat burn victims.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration in May updated its guidance on who is allowed to donate blood. The new rules eliminate restrictions specifically prohibiting gay and bisexual men from donating.

Community Blood Center/Community Tissue Services is celebrating a historic milestone — the agency distributed a record one million tissue grafts in 2022 alone.

In the wake of disasters and emergencies, there's frequently a need for blood donations. Now, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is partnering with a Southwest Ohio tissue center on a inventory of donor skin to immediately treat injuries from mass casualty emergencies involving burns.

Blood donation is critical, and centers know it's important to reach new donors when they're young. High school blood drives were scarce during the pandemic shutdown and didn't fare much better after many students returned to classrooms in 2021. Now, blood centers are preparing for what they hope will be a better school year.

Hoxworth, Community Blood Center of Dayton and the Red Cross all are in need of type O blood donations.

Hoxworth Blood Center and Community Blood Center are no longer collecting convalescent plasma from people who had COVID-19. Both agencies say there's…

World Blood Donor Day is this Sunday, June 14. Community Blood Center and Hoxworth both are encouraging people to donate. Hoxworth Public Relations…