Héma-Québec
Héma-Québec is a non-profit organization that supplies blood and other biological products of human origin to hospitals for the Canadian province of Quebec. The organization's headquarters is located in the Montreal borough of Saint-Laurent, Quebec, and it was created on March 26, 1998, as a successor to the Canadian Red Cross Blood Program and the Canadian Blood Agency on recommendation of the Krever Commission.
| Formation | 1998 |
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| Type | Non-profit |
| Headquarters | 4045, boulevard Côte-Vertu Saint-Laurent, Quebec H4R 2W7 |
Region served | Quebec |
Official language | French and English |
Key people | Nathalie Fagnan, President and CEO |
Parent organization | Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services |
Budget | 2017-2018 Annual Revenue: CA$450 million |
Staff | 1300 |
Volunteers | 16000 |
| Website | www |
As a supplier, Héma-Québec is responsible for recruiting donors and for collecting, testing and processing the blood products, and delivering them to hospitals.
Supplying cell and tissue products to hospitals is also an important component of its mandate. Héma-Québec is responsible for the Stem Cell Donor Registry for Quebec and for the first Public Cord Blood Bank operating in Canada. It also collects, processes and distributes human tissues such as corneas, skin, bones, heart valves and tendons, and manages the only Public Human Tissue Bank in Quebec.
Héma-Québec also manages the only Public Mothers' Milk Bank in Quebec, whose purpose is to meet the needs of very premature newborns. It recruits and screen donors and then processes and tests the milk and distributes it to hospitals.