Donor Testing Laboratory

This department operates 18 hours a day, six days a week, including holidays, and is responsible for ensuring that all required screening and supplemental testing is completed for approximately 95,000 allogeneic, autologous and apheresis donations collected at Hoxworth Blood Center in FY10.

This department also ensures that any potentially infectious or sub-standard product is quarantined and discarded to prevent release to general inventory.

Hoxworth Blood Center no longer performs required donor testing on site. Indiana Blood Center serves as the testing facility for Hoxworth Blood Center and has done so since 1998.

Current Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and AABB required testing, in addition to other supplemental testing, is performed to detect/determine:

ABO/Rh;

Antibody to:

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Types 1/2, HIV-1 subtypes O and M
Hepatitis B Core (HBC) Antigen
Human T-Lymphotrophic Virus (HTLV) Types I & II

Hepatitis C Virus (HCV)
Syphilis (T. pallidum)
Chagas Disease (T. cruzi)
Red Cell Antigens

Antigen:

Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Surface Antigen

Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) for viral RNA for:

HCV
HIV-1

HBV
West Nile Virus (WNV)

Additiontal Testing:

Cholesterol (for donors wishing to track their non-fasting cholesterol levels).

Infectious Disease Testing Information

The Donor Testing Laboratory receives many questions concerning the dates of infectious disease testing. The following table is a brief synopsis on the history and current status of infectious disease testing performed at Hoxworth Blood Center.

EIA = Enzyme Immunoassay

PRISM = Chemiluminescence Immunoassay

NAT = Nucleic Acid Testing

In FY10, this laboratory also performed over 50,000 discrete Quality Control (QC) tests on randomly selected products. By testing randomly selected products, Hoxworth Blood Center is able to ensure that products meet the minimum quality assurance specifications set by the FDA and AABB. The result is that physicians can better manage blood transfusion therapy for their patients knowing that a standard minimum dose available for transfusion.

Daily operations are managed by Jody Hupp, MLT(ASCP), Asst. Director. The Donor Testing Laboratory is under the direction of the Division and Medical Director Patricia Carey, MD.

Contact Information

To contact the Donor Testing Laboratory dial 513-558-1200. Press 9 for a listing of departments. Press 6 to be connected with the Donor Testing Laboratory.

Request or Discuss Donor Test Results

Donor test results will only be released to the donor with proper identification. 

To request a copy of your test results, or to discuss the meaning of a test result, please contact Laurel Wysocki, RN, Manager, Donor Quality Assurance.   Click on her name for email or, to speak in person, please dial 513-558-1317. 


Updated: 12/15/11