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The Hawaii Cord Blood Bank is an independent, non-profit, collaborative community service organization involving a local partnership between the Blood Bank of Hawaii, area hospitals, and the Hawaii Bone Marrow Donor Registry. The Hawaii Cord Blood Bank works in conjunction with the Puget Sound Blood Center in Seattle, Washington, where cord blood units collected in Hawaii are transported for processing and storage. Once banked, these units are registered on a computer database as belonging to the Hawaii Cord Blood Bank, and are universally available. Our mission is to help save the lives of patients in need of stem cell transplant by providing matched umbilical cord blood units for use in transplantation. Together, we are transforming what is usually discarded into the hope for a second chance for patients with life-threatening diseases.