Lifestream

LifeStream is a private, nonprofit, 501 (c)(3) comprehensive blood center serving more than 80 Southern California medical facilities. The organization was founded in 1951 as Blood Bank of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties (BBSBRC) with the purpose of maintaining an adequate and safe blood supply for local hospitals. In 2008 the organization's name was changed to better reflect its growing service area and totality of services offered. LifeStream operates five donor centers located in San Bernardino, Riverside, Ontario, Victorville, and La Quinta.  Blood components are stored and distributed from San Bernardino, La Quinta, Victorville and Placentia. 

LifeStream is committed to maintaining a safe and plentiful supply of blood products for its hospital partners.  This can only happen if the residents of the communities served are engaged in its mission of helping to save lives by connecting donors and patients through the gift of blood.  Voluntary, healthy blood donors are needed to assist surgical and trauma patients, transplant recipients, premature infants and cancer patients. To meet emergency and ongoing patient need, LifeStream must receive 500 voluntary blood donations daily in order to support 175,000 transfusions annually.  Blood donations are always needed to maintain a safe inventory of blood and blood components required to directly support the medical care of area patients.

LifeStream obtains about 60 percent of its blood collection from community blood drives, utlizing eight mobile units that crisscross the region daily to conduct mobile blood drives at schools, churches, hospitals, businesses, government offices, and service organizations.  These drives are popular links to the community, going "to the donor" to make donation less time-consuming and more efficient.  Frequently, the public is introduced to LifeStream by the distinctive design and presence of a mobile unit; this first impression can lead to better awareness and education on the need for blood donation.  Often, lifelong donors make their first blood donation at a community drive.

The community counts on LifeStream to provide blood products and services to local and Soutern California hospital patients. Your financial gift can make a difference in your community today, tomorrow and always. One blood donation assists multiple patients.  One financial donation can multiply that generous spirit many times over.

Thank you for supporting LifeStream.  It is through your generosity we are able to save lives!