| Facts about
the North Carolina Eye Bank |
Year Founded: 1951
Services Provided:
- Full-service donor identification
- Donor consent
- Tissue recovery
- Distribution of eye tissue
- Compliance with all aspects of eye donation and corneal
transplantation. |
Hours of Operation: 24 hours each day, 365 days
a year
Employees: Approximately 28 full-time and 19 part-time
employees
Annual Budget: Approximately $3,000,000. (See
detailed financials).
Sources of Funding: The eye bank is funded primarily
through the processing fees charged to transplanting facilities
and research organizations for eye tissue. It also relies
upon the generosity of donors.
Accreditations: The NCEB is a fully accredited member
of the Eye Bank Association of America and registered as a
U.S. Food and Drug Administration human tissue establishment.
It is also licensed for tissue bank operations in the state
of California.
Service area: The NCEB serves the people of North
Carolina, except for the metropolitan Charlotte and Asheville
areas, before it serves any other constituency, supplying
them with the necessary tissue for cornea transplants. However,
the eye bank regularly provides eye tissue for research purposes
and to people in need internationally. Countries receiving
tissue in the past include England, France, Egypt, Korea,
and Argentina among others.
Facility: The NCEB operates in a state
of the art facility, designed and built specifically for
eye banking. The facility utilizes advanced technology to
manage daily operations, coordinate with donor hospitals and
prepare tissue for transplantation and research.
Office Locations: The NCEB has four offices strategically
located throughout its service area to increase tissue recovery
times.
Main Office:
3900 Westpoint Blvd. Suite F
Winston-Salem, NC 27103
33 Employees
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Tissue Recovery Team:
4000 Westgate Plaza Office Park, Ste. 4007
3622 Lyckan Parkway
Durham, NC 27707
4 Employees
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Tissue Recovery Team:
2217 Stantonsburg Road
Greenville, NC 27834
6 Employees
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Tissue Recovery Team:
1767 Metromedical Drive
Suite 1
Fayetteville, NC 28304
4 Employees |
last updated: 5/04
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