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Centralized Transfusion Services (CTS) is a network of integrated transfusion services which supports an extensive group of major hospitals and other healthcare facilities in the Pittsburgh region. Established in 1969 to provide pre-transfusion testing services, it operates both on-site at hospitals and off-site central laboratory facilities. Facilitated by computerization and automated testing, technical and non-technical staff rotate among all sites. CTS functions include compatibility testing, specialized serological testing, product preparation, issue and medical support. Annual blood and component throughput for CTS includes over 80,000 units of red blood cells and 100,000 units of platelets per year.

CTS also serves as an educational resource responsible for transfusion medicine training. Academic programs supported by CTS include a transfusion medicine post-doctoral fellowship, three pathology residencies, and two hematology/oncology fellowships. CTS also supports the blood-banking modules of two medical technologist schools.

CTS innovations have substantial medical benefits. The CTS maximizes resources and talent by providing a core of transfusion medicine specialists to hospitals that might not otherwise have access to this expertise. The CTS system also allows a patient's transfusion history to follow him or her from hospital to hospital, tracking antibodies, transfusion reactions and other special needs.

Within the industry, CTS is internationally recognized as the leading model which offers a blood center or group of hospitals the ideal way to centralize transfusion services in their region.

Notable among CTS's commitments are its responsibilities to support:

bulletThe world's most active transplant center
bulletTwo additional organ transplant centers
bulletA comprehensive cancer center designated by the National Cancer Institute
bulletFour bone marrow transplant programs
bulletThree major trauma centers
bulletPrograms of Allegheny General Hospital and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

 

 

CTS Contacts
Medical Director Darrell J. Triulzi, M.D.
(412) 209-7304
Technical Director Linda Hahn, MT ASCP, SBB
(412) 209-7477
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The Institute For Transfusion Medicine(sm)
Five Parkway Center
875 Greentree Road
Pittsburgh, PA  15220
(412) 209-7300