Through more than 20 years of service to the community, LifeSource has earned the public’s trust of achieving our challenging mission of providing a consistently safe and adequate blood supply for residents of Chicago and the surrounding regions.   LifeSource is the primary provider of blood, blood products and related transfusion medicine services to 94% of Chicago hospitals.   More than 450,000 blood products are required each year to meet the patients' needs for transfusion therapy.   More than 700 units of blood are transfused every 24 hours, each day of the year, in hospitals serviced by LifeSource.

Patients come from across the nation and even abroad seeking treatment from medical teams working in technologically advanced settings.  Chicago is blessed with a numerous amount of excellent medical facilities.  At one end are the community hospitals that answer the need for basic and routine medical care for residents in their immediate areas.  At the other end of the spectrum are the sophisticated and often pioneering regional referral centers.  Highly specialized services such as trauma centers, neonatal units, burn centers and transplant programs are available to patients from a wide geographic area.  Our commitment to the care of critically ill and injured patients as well as those undergoing routine procedures in need of blood transfusions requires us to seek continuous improvements in the quality of products and services we provide.  Our effort to advance transfusion medicine is ongoing.  LifeSource recognizes its vital role in servicing this challenging and excellent health care delivery system.  The achievements of the blood center are intertwined with the provision of highly specialized treatment capabilities in our community. 

Despite miraculous advancements in medicine, there is no substitute for human blood.  With the aging population, the demand for blood products is likely to continue to grow since the management of illnesses that strike the elderly often requires extensive blood service support.  The need for blood products can occur in people of all ages, from the management of hematological disorders which strike newborns and premature infants to the elderly population.  The expertise available in the advanced medical facilities has greatly diminished mortality rates and complications from devastating diseases.  An irreplaceable part of these advances has been the highly specialized blood products prepared for these patients by LifeSource.  A stable blood supply is vital at all times to ensure the excellence in the delivery of health care within our region.