Bloodworks 101
Started in 2020, Bloodworks 101 is an Anthem Award-winning, weekly podcast produced by Bloodworks Northwest, a Seattle-based blood bank and research center. It is the nation’s only regularly scheduled podcast in the blood banking industry. Episodes are designed to inspire and educate listeners to donate time, money or blood.
On Bloodworks 101 you'll meet experts who can discuss everything from the importance of blood donation to trypanophobia (fear of needles).
Emmy Award-winning producer John Yeager, is joined by a team of gifted storytellers; Helen Pitlick and Juan Cotto.
In 2025, Bloodworks 101 won its sixth coveted Anthem Award, beating out more than 2,500 entries from 43 nations.
Bloodworks 101
The Grandma with Superpowers - Sheila Julich (S1 E13)
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It seems like every day we hear more discouraging news about the rapid and deadly spread of COVID-19. As the death toll passes 100,000, it's hard to be hopeful. However that just means you haven't met 79 year-old Sheila Julich. Sheila is an on-call nurse at Kirkland, Washington's Life Care Center, where the first confirmed cases of COVID were recorded and where 37 lives were lost, many of them Sheila's friends and long-time residents. But as more and more of us become familiar with what convalescent plasma is - more of us come to realize that maybe Sheila Julich represents a sliver of hope.
