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
It Happened Overnight: When a Pandemic Meets the Blood Supply
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The global coronavirus pandemic has upended just about everything about how we live our lives today, even striking deep and very quickly at the heart of our blood supply.
In this episode of Bloodworks 101, we hear from Bloodworks Executive Vice President of Blood Services and blood industry veteran Vicki Finson – who’s adapted to just about every other manner of natural disaster throughout her career – how she and her team handled this one. “Overnight,” they modified Bloodworks’ entire blood collection infrastructure to the new, socially-distanced normal to make sure patients’ access to blood continued uninterrupted.
Since the first days of the virus, no one knew what was coming next. But one thing’s for sure: The summer is 2020 was nothing if not unprecedented, but it’s the reason why that has us hopeful for what’s to come.
