California Transplant Services, Inc.
California Transplant
Services, Inc. is a
non-profit eye and tissue bank
offering
physicians worldwide,
the highest quality tissue for transplant available.
California Transplant Services is accredited by the
American Association of Tissue Banks. Our
24 hour available service center maintains the Cornea
Transplant Registry.
Scheduled
cornea and orthopedic transplant surgical needs are met with high
quality surgical tissue. All surgical tissue is procured, processed and
distributed in accordance with written SOP's reviewed by our Volunteer Medical
Director and following standards established by the
American Association of Tissue Banks
and guidelines established by the U.S. Food & Drug
Administration, Eye
Bank Association of America, U.S. Public Health Service and the California Department of Health
Services.
Among the
tissues we provide are corneas for trauma and cornea blindness repair, bone for orthopedic and reconstructive surgery, skin for burn
and trauma surgery, and tendons and ligaments for sports medicine.
California
Transplant is proud to offer the only structured Autologous Tissue
Storage (ATS) program in California for trauma and surgical patients.
Our Mission
The mission of
California Transplant Services, Inc. is to act responsibly on behalf
of our community as stewards of donations that are given for transplant and
research; Gifts that are given selflessly by very special people so others may
have a better quality of life.
Our Quality
Policy
California Transplant Services
is committed to providing the highest quality products and services and ensuring
the safety of our recipients and personnel. The primary quality objective is to
respond to our customer and regulatory requirements in the provision of products
and services.
The California Transplant
Services’ quality system complies with all applicable accreditation standards
and regulations in a manner which promotes continuous quality improvement. CTS
management is responsible for ensuring that this policy is understood,
implemented and maintained at all levels of the organization.
California Transplant Services,
Inc. is a California Non Profit Public Benefit Corporation and operates under a license from the State of California, Department of Health
Services as a Human Tissue Preservation Laboratory (#CNC80141).
For tissue availability and patient
registration, call toll free at 1-800-92-TISSUE (800-928-4778)
from
within the USA.
Program Profile
California Transplant Services, Inc.
(CTS) is a California non-profit public benefit corporation qualified by
the IRS as a section 501(c)3 public charity, licensed by the California Department of
Public Health as a Tissue Bank and registered and inspected
by the United States Food and Drug Administration. We were also inspected by the
American
Association of Tissue Banks in September of 2003 and awarded Accreditation
in December 2003.
California Transplant Services is a Member of
the Eye Bank Association of America.
We are registered in California with the
Office of Charitable Trusts.
California
Transplant Services is a full service eye and tissue bank headquartered in
Carlsbad, California.
 Most of CTS
California Transplant's fulltime staff are Certified Tissue Bank Specialists (CTBS) by the AATB or
Certified Eye Bank Technicians (CEBT) by the Eye Bank Association of America. CTS
staffing includes fulltime and part time tissue procurement
specialists.
CTS helps tissue banks by providing 24 hour tissue placement services from it's west coast
USA distribution
center. CTS has provided cornea and bone tissue placement
services nationwide since 1994.
Physicians completing the online National
Cornea Transplant Registry form are
offered tissue for their patients from the pool of "tissue available for
distribution" tissue from eye and tissue banks. CTS coordinates and is responsible for all
courier, airline flight or
Federal Express arrangements including reroute of tissue when a flight or
surgery is
cancelled.
Every fulltime transplant coordinator also carries a 3G wireless internet
device capable of tracking shipments.
CTS has been designated by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
as a "Known Shipper" with most major airlines such as United
Airlines, United Shuttle, United Express, Delta, and US Airways and therefore can provide
the most direct routing of emergency shipments.
Our proximity to seven major airports and two international airports makes
shipping easy worldwide.
In fact, we are located at the McClellan-Palomar Airport
which is serviced by United Airlines, and Mercy
Air.
California Transplant Services is a
Member Eye Bank of the EBAA and
supports the activities of the
EBAA. CTS provides a valuable service to the community and other EBAA member
eye banks by making available to surgeons eye tissue that might
not have been utilized.
Contact Information
- Corporate Headquarters
California Transplant
Services, Inc.
- 5845 Owens Ave.
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Carlsbad, CA 92008
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- 1 (760) 804-6890
(24 hour customer care)
- 1 (760)
804-6899 (fax)
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Accounting Office
California Transplant
Services, Inc.
P.O. Box 130815
Carlsbad, CA 92013-0815
1 (760) 804-6890 ext. 107
1 (760) 804-6898 (fax)
Electronic mail
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General Information:
info@catransplant.org
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Tissue distribution: info@catransplant.org
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Customer Care: info@catranspant.org
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Human Resources:
GreatJobs@catransplant.org
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Webmaster:
webmaster@catransplant.org
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Transplant Services, Inc. has taken steps to ensure it is as factual as
possible, we cannot provide any guarantee on the reliability of all information
contained herein or the reliability of facts obtained from other information
sources.
This information and other information on this
site is intended for general reference purposes only and is not intended to
address specific medical conditions. This information is not a substitute for
professional medical advice or a medical exam. No health information on this
site should be used or relied upon to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any medical condition.
If you have a medical emergency call 911 or the emergency
services number for your location.
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Transplant Services, Inc. is not responsible for third party Web
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