BTR executes an agreement that requires BTR compliance with HIPAA regulations and hospital policies regarding privacy. All information is kept strictly confidential and no identifying information is shared with anyone, except where required by law. To protect privacy, we will keep all information that contains personal identifiers confidential and in a secure location, with access allowed only to authorized BTR personnel. We will not identify patients in any publications.

Once we reach an agreement with a hospital, BTR selects and carefully trains a highly professional individual to serve as a placenta donor coordinator. BTR’s placenta donor coordinators have excellent situational awareness and interpersonal skills with which they time and conduct themselves in a way that doesn’t interfere with workflow or cause delays.

Our consent rate exceeds 90%. The vast majority of women and their families intuitively recognize the altruistic value of granting permission for their afterbirth to be used for creation of wound care products. Especially, when one considers the alternative is for it to be discarded.

We make every effort prior to initiating the program to educate nursing and medical staff about the donation process, use of tissue, and address any questions or concerns. We attempt to incrementally implement the program to give time to receive feedback and refine the process as it is going forward. Nurses and physicians recognize the value of tissue donation and the enhanced patient experience this opportunity provides their patients.

A mother qualifies to donate if she does not have any diseases that could be passed on to a patient who receives transplant products made from the birth tissues. The medical record review is one tool in BTR’s donor screening and safety assessment process.