New Plasma Center Now Open In Temple Terrace; Donations Needed

TEMPLE TERRACE, FL -- CSL Plasma just opened up a new plasma center in Temple Terrace located at 8717 Temple Terrace Highway.

Plasma is the essential ingredient for products crucial to treating patients suffering from life-threatening conditions and disorders:

• Hemophilia
• Primary Immune Deficiencies
• Respiratory disease
• Organ Transplants
• Burn Treatments
• To prevent hemolytic disease for newborns

What is CSL Plasma?

CSL Plasma is one of the world's largest collectors of human plasma. As a leader in plasma collection, CSL Plasma is committed to excellence and innovation in everything we do. Our work helps to ensure that thousands of people are able to live normal, healthy lives. We are committed to our work because lives depend on us.

Why are donors compensated?

We understand that our donors’ time is valuable and so we compensate for the time spent donating. Fees range center to center but on average the fee is between $40-$45 per donation.

What happens to the plasma?

The plasma is first tested for viability and then sent to our Plasma Logistics Center for holding. Once cleared it is sent to our CSL Behring Manufacturing plant in Kankakee, IL where it is made into the plasma therapy medicine.

How does plasma save lives?

CSL Behring is a leader in the plasma protein therapeutics industry. Committed to saving lives and improving the quality of life for people with rare and serious diseases, the company manufactures and markets a range of plasma-derived and recombinant therapies worldwide. CSL therapies are used to treat coagulation disorders including hemophilia and von Willebrand disease, primary immune deficiencies, hereditary angioedema, inherited respiratory disease, and neurological disorders. The company’s products are also used in cardiac surgery, organ transplantation, burn treatment and to prevent hemolytic disease of the newborn.

When you donate plasma, you are essentially creating a healthier life for someone in need. Why it is so needed:

• 130 donations are used to treat one patient with Primary Immune Deficiency
• 900 donations are used to treat one patient with Alpha-1

Why is Temple Terrace an important market for CSL Plasma?

A great deal of research and thought goes into the various locations we choose to place our centers. We look for population dense areas that are accessible to public transportation and often near colleges and universities. We look for the healthiest of donors. We are excited to be part of the great city of Temple Terrance and look forward to supporting employees as they are eager to give back to the community. Stephanie Frye is the center manager in Temple Terrace and is looking forward to meeting all in the community.

CSL Plasma has over 200 centers in the US and growing fast. The global demand for plasma is booming. Plasma is a mystery to most. People understand blood- because we can see it. Blood donors are celebrated. Getting plasma is so much different- because the process is hard… but it literally is lifesaving. There’s an unfortunate stigma behind donating plasma that is only for the poor who need money and college students for beer money. Not many people know what goes into the plasma collection process and why the global demand for plasma is so high. Plasma really does saves lives.