BLOODWORKS ANNUAL REPORT 2020

2020

BOUND BY BLOOD 2020 COMMUNITY IMPACT/ JULY 1, 2019-JUNE 30, 2020

Faced with the challenge of a global pandemic, our 168,193 17,626 2,339 2,198

BLOODWORKS ANNUAL REPORT ANNUAL REPORT BLOODWORKS community stepped up like never before. We have IN TIMES Curt Bailey, MBA experienced our highest President and CEO OF CHANGE Bloodworks Northwest levels of blood inventory in the last 5 years, and REDS BLOOD WHOLE PLASMA since April 2020, we are DOUBLE PLATELETS import-free. CENTER BLOODWORKS One of my stress-coping mechanisms during COVID-19 is gardening. I enjoy the act of gardening itself, Donor FOR APHERESIS THERAPY CORD BLOOD and then, of course, I take great pleasure in seeing the flowers and shrubs thrive. This year, I had a bed Centers: DONATION PROGRAM 190,356 1,832 PATIENT PROCEDURES of lilies that bloomed with such exuberance I thought they might thrive through the winter! They were SUCCESSFUL 1,934 COLLECTIONS (WA, HI) BLOOD COLLECTIONS 283 BLOODWORKS TRANSFUSION 287 UNITS BANKED a delight each day. POP UP DONOR CENTER SERVICE LABS DRIVES 21 UNITS DISTRIBUTED In many ways, that reflects how I think about Bloodworks. It is a joy to see this garden nurtured and 26,398 BLOOD COMPONENTS FOR TRANSPLANTATION thriving — to produce amazing results. 29,404 9,628 ISSUED POP UP DONOR CENTER A few examples of things we’ve done and are doing: FIRST TIME DONORS BLOODWORKS HLA TESTING COLLECTIONS - We set an intention last year to address our blood inventory, and with extraordinary engagement from 668 ENABLED SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANTS the community, it has stabilized and remains steady.

- We committed to accelerate discoveries that depend upon blood products, and Bloodworks Bio has AUGUST-NOVEMBER 2020 grown multiple times over. 43,596 - And, we decisively reduced our overhead, by roughly $5 million this fiscal year. DONORS TESTED FOR 28 COVID-19 ANTIBODIES Then, in the midst of the pandemic, we adapted in many different ways: innovating how we collect blood; implementing safety protocols needed to ensure our staff and donors could do their work and make their 2,466 COVID-19 CONVALESCENT PLASMA UNITS donations safely; and aggressively scaling a convalescent plasma program to treat patients with the virus. DISTRIBUTED TO 45 HOSPITALS, OTHER BLOOD CENTERS, ARMY AND We are making active gains on determining the best use of our real estate, shifting to work from home NATIONAL STOCKPILE where possible; investing in the digital experience to meet what is now an expectation of our donors; rejuvenating our research program; and investing in Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging training. AGILITY/ When we collected Washington’s first COVID-19

An enormous body of work has been completed, and it is working. We are seeing strong performance Convalescent Plasma (CCP) unit on April 10, 2020, Bloodworks across the board at Bloodworks. Some, better than we’ve seen in years! Northwest made national news.

This time of change requires creativity, agility and resilience…attributes we are using every day. CONVALESCENT PLASMA (CCP) represents a bold departure from agile solutions to collect, process, and distribute biological products We are nurturing this beautiful garden that is Bloodworks, and we are producing beautiful results, how blood centers like Bloodworks typically operate. By dovetailing to scientists across the country, enabling us to amplify the for our community’s benefit. research and community donations, we mobilized quickly to collect generosity of our donor community.

our first unit of antibody-rich CCP just weeks after the initial Stay “Everyone continues to pull out the stops and get a lot done really Kindly, TOGETHER. At Home order in March, 2020. fast,” said Aaron Posey, Executive Vice President of Bloodworks Bio. This program speaks to the depth and breadth of our organization, To date, Bloodworks has collected more than 2,400 CCP units for SAVING LIVES THROUGH RESEARCH, touching every department within Bloodworks Northwest. participating hospitals, and the numbers keep growing. While we’re INNOVATION, EDUCATION, AND EXCELLENCE For more than 75 years, Bloodworks has been the region’s top all anxiously waiting for a vaccine, CCP therapy provides a glimmer IN BLOOD, MEDICAL, AND LABORATORY resource for all things blood. Our world-renowned researchers and of hope for critically ill patients. SERVICES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR medical staff work beside our specialized product team to develop COMMUNITY.

1 2 2020 2020 Sheila Julich Life Care Center FINANCIAL SUMMARY/ THE HOPE On-call Nurse July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020 OF THE Convalescent Plasma Donor WORLD BLOODWORKS ANNUAL REPORT ANNUAL REPORT BLOODWORKS ANNUAL REPORT BLOODWORKS

SHEILA JULICH, COVID-19 CONVALESCENT PLASMA DONOR

REVENUE BY CATEGORY ($ THOUSANDS) REVENUE FISCAL YEAR 2020 By Bill Harper

50% Blood components, In March of this year, the daily operations of Bloodworks Northwest were abruptly interrupted. All mobile blood Blood components, services 104,870 hospital services, lab testing drives and 60% of our ability to collect blood, canceled overnight. “Our blood supply is at risk of collapse” stated our Patient services & bleeding 96,364 President and CEO, Curt Bailey, on local television. It was time to respond and adapt. disorders 46% Patient services Research grants & contracts 4,856 & bleeding disorders Just as Bloodworks itself was born from crisis during WWII, so too was our path forward in this new, strange, Other income 5,706 and socially-distanced world. Community partners flocked to our aid and offered their spaces to host first-ever, 3% Other weeks-long Pop-Up Donor Centers, and blood donors answered in kind, with a record-setting summer that Financial contributions 2,374 2% Research grants/contracts included 50k donations, 10k first-time donors, and a day in March that exceeded the number of blood donations 214,170 & partnerships; clinical trials we had received on 9/11. When faced with the worst, we became our best, and Bound by Blood we became. 1% Financial & in-kind contributions Soon after the first cases of COVID-19 emerged in the , Bloodworks launched its COVID-19 convalescent plasma program – the first in the nation – that collects antibody-rich plasma from people recovered from the disease and gives it to patients currently sick with the virus. This pioneering path – over a century old – marks a turning point for some severely ill patients and offers us all a ray of hope in a story suffused by powerlessness.

EXPENSES BY CATEGORY ($ THOUSANDS) EXPENSES FISCAL YEAR 2020 Among Bloodworks’ first convalescent plasma donors was 79-year-old Sheila Julich, an on-call nurse at Life Care Center in Kirkland, WA, the very nursing home that became known as the United States’ first COVID-19 outbreak epicenter. Sheila was one of the first positive cases at Life Care to survive the virus. “I couldn’t be Salaries, payroll taxes & 80,415 38% Salaries, payroll tax, benefits employee benefits there to say goodbye,” she said of the friends and residents she lost, 37 in all. Drugs, Supplies 101,400 But after she’d recovered fully, a doctor at Life Care told her about Bloodworks’ convalescent plasma program, 47% Supplies and without hesitation, she made an appointment. It was an opportunity, she said, to make the difference she General 16,427 couldn’t make while she herself was sick. Facilities 7,341 8% General Depreciation & amortization 6,418 3% Facilities “I felt lucky and blessed that I made it through, and I wanted 3% Depreciation, amortization Transportation 2,572 1% Transportation to help somebody else if possible.” 214,572 Audited financial numbers available at bloodworksnw.org/more Sheila is one of the hundreds of Bloodworks convalescent plasma donors since April. These donations have treated patients nationwide, as well as advanced research for a cure. Neighbors helping neighbors, and more than anything else, it’s hope.

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To hear Sheila’s story in her own words, listen to her episode of our podcast, with John Yeager Bloodworks 101, titled The Grandma with Superpowers.

3 4 COMMUNITY STRONG We adapted overnight to a new normal we couldn’t have predicted, we built new community partnerships and strengthened existing ones for the good of all, and we found a new name for what drives us, BOUND BY BLOOD that epitomizes our most fundamental truth: we are strongest together.

5 6 IN 2020, OUR RESEARCHERS CONTINUED THEIR LEGACY OF SCIENTIFIC EXCELLENCE, AUTHORING MORE THAN 45 PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS, EXPANDING EXISTING RESEARCH PROGRAMS, RECEIVING PROFESSIONAL BLOOD ACCOLADES, AND AWARDED NUMEROUS GRANTS AND CONTRACTS. EXPERTS

BLOODWORKS RESEARCH/

Scientific excellence continues to be a vital component of the COVID-19 is a disease that targets and sabotages blood vessels – resulting in medical complications that impact the brain, kidney, heart, and lungs of patients. Rooted in our expertise and capabilities in blood science, Bloodworks Research Institute Bloodworks mission. Over the past 76 years, we have cultivated is uniquely suited to understand how COVID-19 starts, progresses, and ultimately, how it can be beaten.

a collaborative community of blood experts, specializing in transfusion Dr. Jill Johnsen, an expert in the genetics of blood groups, launched a study to determine if ABO blood type is a risk factor medicine and hemostasis (the process to prevent and stop bleeding) for COVID-19 infection and severity. Utilizing samples from individuals who have recovered from COVID-19, Dr. Dominic Chung and thrombosis (abnormal blood clotting) research. In turn, & Dr. José López are leading the development of antibodies capable of blocking entry of the virus into cells. Bloodworks has become an epicenter for new treatments and advancements in patient care for those with bleeding disorders, cardiovascular diseases, blood cancers, and transfusion needs.

José López, M.D. Dominic Chung, Ph.D. Jill M. Johnsen, M.D. Full Member Full Member Associate Member Bloodworks Bloodworks Bloodworks Research Institute Research Institute Research Institute

A NEW MODEL FOR STUDYING TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES A PROMISING NEW TREATMENT FOR HEMOPHILIA A COLD-STORED PLATELETS A NEW MASS SPECTROMETER

A newly funded study led by Dr. Jing-Fei Dong will establish a 3D A study led by Dr. Barbara Konkle demonstrated clinical Dr. Moritz Stolla has evaluated platelet storage methodologies Our Mass Spectrometry Core facility, led by Dr. Xiaoyun Fu, model for studying the impact of traumatic brain injuries on the evidence of a new long-acting treatment for hemophilia A. and developed technology for storing platelets in the refrigerator installed a new LC-Mass Spectrometer. This state-of-the-art blood brain barrier. Once validated, this model could predict the This treatment could dramatically extend the amount of instead of at room temperature. This enables better platelet equipment, which will be used to advance blood research by development of traumatic brain injury induced bleeding, and time a patient can go between treatments, dramatically function, and in many settings including the battlefield, all of our investigators, was made possible by charitable the clinical means to prevent it. improving their quality of life. In March, Dr. Konkle’s cold-stored platelets may be a better clinical choice. grants from MJ Murdock Charitable Trust, Washington findings were published in the prestigious This fall, Dr. Stolla launched a new clinical Research Foundation, and the Ellen Browning New England Journal of Medicine. study to investigate the effectiveness of cold- Scripps Foundation. stored platelets in cardiac surgery patients.

Jing-fei Dong, M.D., Ph.D. Barbara A. Konkle, M.D. Moritz Stolla, M.D., Ph.D. Xiaoyun Fu, Ph.D. Full Member Associate Chief Scientific Officer Assistant Member Associate Member Bloodworks Research Institute Bloodworks Northwest Bloodworks Research Institute Bloodworks Research Institute 7 Director, Hemostasis, Platelet Director of Mass Spectrometry Laboratory 8 Immunology, and Genomics 2020 FROM THE CHAIR BOARD OF TRUSTEES / 2020

I SPEAK FOR ALL TRUSTEES WHEN I EXPRESS MY SINCEREST GRATITUDE to every employee, volunteer, Curt Bailey, MBA Jim Garrison, DBA Sean W. Sigmon President & CEO, CEO retired, Business Development donor, and community partner who stood with us this year to prove that even a global pandemic, racial Bloodworks Northwest Delta Dental Executive strife, wildfires, and a cratering economy cannot keep us from helping others. Peter Chin, MD Mark A. Hulak Craig M. Trewet This hasn’t been an easy year, but as it draws to a close, one thing is clear: this was the time when Vice President of Late Managing Director, Sr. Director, Commercial Airplane Clinical, Denali Therapeutics OneAccord Manufacturing & Safety, we were reminded what we’re made of. And what we’ve done, the lives we’ve saved, the hope we’ve Capital Advisors The Boeing Company Molly Firth BLOODWORKS ANNUAL REPORT ANNUAL REPORT BLOODWORKS created – that all feels much more like a beginning than an end. Principal, Josefina Fernandez CORPORATE OFFICERS MCG Consulting McEvoy, Esq. Our community’s need for blood doesn’t stop. From what we’ve accomplished this year, we have but Independent Executive Curt Bailey, President & CEO John Fitzharris, MD Advisor one way to proceed: BOLDLY. PROUDLY. EMPOWERED. AND FULL OF HOPE. Medical Director, Sean Sigmon, Chair Medical Oncology Nathan Pritchard Craig Trewet, Vice Chair Sean Sigmon, Chair, Bloodworks Northwest Board of Trustees Willamette Valley Managing Partner, Maxine Sellers, Secretary Cancer Institute NINE75 Bob Gleason, Treasurer Molly Firth

FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTORS/ COMMUNITY PARTNERS/ OUR WORK TO SAVE AND ENHANCE LIVES SIMPLY ISN’T POSSIBLE WITHOUT OUR GENEROUS FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTORS. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THESE GENEROUS COMPANIES AND ORGANIZATIONS, BLOODWORKS NORTHWEST IS ABLE TO PROVIDE A STRONG AND SAFE BLOOD SUPPLY TO LOCAL PATIENTS.

Abbott Laboratories Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Adaptive Biotechnologies Combat Arts Academy of Jupiter NEXT Papa’s Pizza Alaska USA Federal Credit Union Moss Adams LLP Allen Institute Cornerstone Christian Fellowship Kaiser Permanente Paseo Alexion Pharmaceuticals MRM Evergreen, LLC Aloft Hillsboro/Beaverton Costco Keller Williams Pathway Foundation Amazon Nine75, LLC Amazon Covington Esplanade Kent Station PeaceHealth Anonymous Nintendo of America Inc Angel Of The Winds Arena Coyote’s Bar & Grill King Street Center Pepsi Ashland Specialty Ingredients G.P. Oakshire Brewing Angel Of The Winds Casino Resort Cre8tive Empowerment Lacey Fire Department Port of Seattle Benefits Management Group, Inc. Octapharma Anvil Corporation Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Lady 12 Portland Art Museum BioLife Solutions, Inc. Oregon Community Foundation AT&T Dick’s Drive-in Lakewood Police Department Portland Timbers & Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Overlake Hospital Medical Center Battle Ground Community Center DoubleTree by Hilton Lane Events Center & Thorns’ Stand Together Blood Bank Computer Systems, Inc. Pacific Office Automation Edison Lutheran Church Lane County Fair Powell’s Books BloodHub Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Edmonds Center for the Arts Legacy Health Premera Blue Cross BNBuilders, Inc. Providence Health & Services of Southwest Washington Bishops Educational Opportunities for Lewis County Mall ProAmpac Cambia Health Foundation Puget Sound Energy Foundation Blakely Hall Community Center Children & Families Lombardi’s Italian Restaurant Providence Comcast Puyallup Tribe of Indians Blue Origin EFESTE Winery London Bridge Studios Providence Park Community Foundation for Southwest Washington RBC Wealth Management Boeing Elements Health Club Love for Lane County Renton School District Confluence Environmental Company Rigel Pharmaceuticals Branches Church Encanto Arts Rivermark Community Credit Union CSL Behring Roche Diagnostics Corporation Briotech Eugene Chamber of Commerce Lynnwood Convention Center Roger Fisher Delta Dental Salal Credit Union Brown and Haley Eugene Downton Association Mary Queen of Peace Rose City Futsal Dick’s Drive-in Seattle Children’s Hospital Camas Public Library McClone Construction Rotary Club Ellen Browning Scripps Foundation Shire Canterwood Golf & Country Club EvergreenHealth McMenamins Salem Lutheran Church Evolution Architecture SiDX Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare Expedia MetroParks Tacoma Seafair Expedia Squaxin Island Tribe Catlin Properties, Inc. Fairwood Country Club Microsoft Seattle Fire Department F5 Networks Strideline CBRE Faith Lutheran Church Wedgwood Mount Baker Theatre Ferris-Turney General Contractors Swedish Medical Center Charter College Vancouver Ferndale Chamber of Commerce Mtn Peaks Therapy Llamas & Alpacas Seattle Opera First Choice Health Symetra Chateau Lill Four Points by Sheraton Seattle Police Department Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Terumo BCT, Inc. Georgetown Morgue Seattle Repertory Theatre Fulcrum Capital, LLC The Boeing Company CHI Franciscan Girl Scouts of Western Washington New Seasons Market Goldman Sachs The Mary See Foundation Church of Jesus Christ Google The Seattle Foundation of Latter-day Saints GloryBee Nile Shrine Seattle Sounders Healthcare Management Administrators, Inc. TIAA-CREF Church of the Holy Cross Google North Creek Presbyterian Church Hudson Specialty CTD Tiedemann Wealth Management City of Eugene Hempler’s Foods Northshore Community Church IBM T-Mobile City of Kent Herzl-Ner Tamid Northside USA See’s Candies IVOXY Consulting, LLC UHG City of Normandy Park Hewlett Packard Northwest Hardwoods Slalom Keller Rohrback UMC, Inc. City of Renton Holiday Inn Express Nvoicepay SORSE Technology Kroger USI Insurance Services City of Snoqualmie Holy Family - Kirkland OBEE Credit Union Sound Credit Union Liberty Mutual Group Employee Giving Verax Biomedical Incorporated City of Springfield Hop Valley Brewing OL Reign South Sound Manor M J Murdock Charitable Trust W.G. Clark Construction Co. City of Tigard Hult Center One and Two Union Square South Waterfront Community Relations Matthews Specialty Vehicles, Inc. WaFd Bank Columbia Bank Hyatt Oregon Convention Center Springfield Police Department McKinsey & Company, Inc. Washington Research Foundation Columbia Sportswear International Paper Oregon Department of Transportation Starbucks MediaPlus Wells Fargo Columbia Tower Club John L. Scott Real Estate Microsoft WSECU CONTINUED 9 Moneytree, Inc. 10 For more information 921 Terry Ave COMMUNITY PARTNERS/ regarding financial Seattle, WA 98104 CONTINUED contributions: (800) 398-7888 bloodworksnw.org [email protected] THANK (206) 568-3614

BECAUSE OF THE THANK THE DONOR PROGRAM, FRIENDS, FAMILY AND PATIENTS CAN SAY THANKS YOU FOR THE LIFE SAVING BLOOD RECEIVED FROM DONORS IN OUR COMMUNITY.

STG Presents Unitus Community Credit Union Between COVID, fires, and My mom is better tonight I have received 2 blood My name is mom; teacher; Sunrise Village University of Oregon the smoke, I can imagine because of your donation. transfusions in the past animal lover; nature lover. Swedish Medical Center University of Washington it has been significantly Thank you for selflessly 2 days post op for a kidney My body is trying to kill me; Swift Agency University Place Hotel & Symetra Conference Center more challenging to get in donating your blood to transplant. It’s so cool that your selfless act saved me. T-Mobile Park UW Medicine to donate blood. I thank save her. a stranger is saving my life. Thank you – a million times Tacoma Defiance Vancouver Toyota you for donating and for In fact, 3 strangers! over – thank you. Veterans Memorial Coliseum the extra effort involved. One transplant and two Taproot Theatre Company WaFd Bank The 107 Independent Washington State Bicycle I am battling leukemia and transfusions. Thanks to you Supporters Trust Association wouldn’t be alive but for and them, I will live to see The Bridge Church Washington State Department of Transportation being able to receive blood my 30s. The Collective Washington State Patrol transfusions. Thank you The Doctor’s Clinic Weingarten Realty The Historic Trust for the gift of life. Westminster Presbyterian Church The Moore Theatre Weyerhauser The Mountaineers Whatcom Educational I can’t thank you enough for Thank you for your donation As parents to a newly diagnosed Thank you for donating blood The Neptune Theatre Credit Union The Nines Hotel your donation. You helped my to my son. He is undergoing child with leukemia we thank to my father and helping him Wilbur-Ellis The Paramount Theatre little girl’s mother in the best cancer treatments and this you for your donation. With fight cancer and feel better. Windermere Real Estate The Portland Clinic Women in Cloud way. During the birthing we is truly life-giving for him. each transfusion we are closer We appreciate you and are The Sanctuary Woodinville Unitarian had complications that We are forever grateful. to having a healthy happy so thankful. Thinkspace Universalist Church resulted in her losing 4.5 daughter again! Three Rivers VFW Post 1324 WSECU Thurston County Realtors YMCA liters of blood during a 3 hour Association Zillow surgery to save her. You helped Timberlake Church Zoom+Care in the greatest way possible Tito’s Vodka Top Pot Doughnuts in the scariest moments of Trapper’s Sushi this father’s life. Trident Seafoods TriMet United Methodist Church- Queen Anne My family wants to thank the Thank you for your donation! My husband was recently In February of this year I was person that took the time to My wife has Aplastic Anemia diagnosed with a rare blood diagnosed with lung cancer. donate their blood. It saved and receives weekly platelet cancer. His red blood cell The chemo has brought my my uncle’s life. He lost a lot transfusions to support her count was so low that he blood levels down significantly. of blood due to being on blood recovery. required a blood transfusion. Due to a transfusion of your thinners. I hope you keep Because of your donation; gift of life I woke up this donating your blood because he is feeling much better morning ready to battle this it did save a life! If we could today. Thank you very much! dreaded disease again. personally thank you, Thank you! we would.

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