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t m c » p u l s e | j a n / f e b 2 0 1 5 39 Listo Translating Services & More Announces a 6-Week Webinar Series of Conversational Spanish for the HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS and SOCIAL WORKERS. Register at: www.listotranslating.com E-mail: roxana@listotranslating.com Phone: 832-592-9264 www.listotranslating.com $285 Cost of the 6-week program: Morning and evening classes available $285 Listo Translating Services & More Announces a 6-Week Webinar Series of Conversational Spanish for the HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS and SOCIAL WORKERS. Are you struggling to communicate with your Spanish-speaking patients Are you struggling to communicate with your Spanish-speaking patients 10 CEUs available for nurses and social workers. W hen Caleb Winn walked through the doors of Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center to donate in December, he walked past the Bill T. Teague Neighborhood Donor Center, down a long hallway and into a quiet room labeled Medical Apheresis Suite. Here, Caleb donated, not blood, plasma or platelets, but the first peripheral blood stem cell donation (a type of bone marrow donation) ever collected at The Blood Center. As The Blood Center celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, it's also expanding the "related services" piece of its mission: To partner with the com- munity to help save and sustain lives by providing a safe supply of blood, blood components and related services. Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center has been home to the Gulf Coast Marrow Donor Program, part of the National Marrow Donor Program's global transplant network, since 1996. The program recruits potential donors for the Be The Match Registry, which is the largest and most diverse marrow registry in the world. Blood Center Brings Marrow Donor Program Full Circle Becoming an NMDP network apheresis center was a natural extension of our mission. It's another way that we are able to partner with the community to save lives. — HOPE GUIDRY-GROVES Director of the Gulf Coast Marrow Donor Program Until December 2014, The Blood Center's marrow donor program staff facilitated every step of the process— from recruitment of potential donors to informed consent and preparation of selected donors—up to the actual marrow donation, which was done at Houston Methodist Hospital in the Texas Medical Center. Now, The Blood Center is equipped and approved to collect most of those donations at its own facility, just down the road from the main TMC campus. "Becoming an NMDP network apheresis center was a natural exten- sion of our mission," Hope Guidry- Groves, Director of the Gulf Coast Marrow Donor Program said. "It's another way that we are able to partner with the community to save lives." — Meagan Raeke, Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center For the full story, visit TMCNews.org/marrow-donor It is time to lace up your tennis shoes and get ready for the TexasMed Fun Run + Walk! The 5K and 10K race courses are around the Medical Center, with the starting line at the corner of Cambridge and N. MacGregor Way just down the street from Ben Taub General Hospital! This is one Fun Run you do not want to miss! Vendor Booths and After Party for Awards! Register Today: www.TexasMedFunRun.com Thank you to our sponsors! (at time of printing) 104.1 KRBE Baker's Safe and Lock Chick-fil-A Holcombe @ Buffalo Speedway Community Health Choice CORE Chiropractic Corner Bakery Café Houston Dynamo East Houston Regional Medical Center Halco Life Safety Systems Harris Health System IBEW Local Union #716 John L. Wortham Kolache Factory Michelob Ultra Oso Promotions Preferred Technologies Propel Sanita Texas Medical Center UT Health Science Center TMA/AMA Watermill Express Proceeds benefit Harris Health's TroubleShooters Program Helping Keep Our Community Healthy ! For more information, call 713-566-6409, www.hchdfoundation.org