RIBC to lay off 60 staff members
By News Staff
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The restructuring comes after the FDA determined the state should test all blood for Babesiosis, a tick borne disease with malaria-like symptoms.
Testing for Babesiosis is more expensive, so in order to collect blood in the most cost-effective ways, it will reduce staff in their Donor Services and other departments.
The changes will take effect October 1 and part of those changes will be stopping blood drives with a goal of 15 or fewer collections.
Babesiosis is the number one transfusion transmitted disease in the
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