BioLife Plasma Services

I’ve been to other donation centers before and Biolife is easily the cleanest, friendliest, and most efficiently run center I have seen. I’m in and out in an hour or less, which is great because other centers have taken double that time. (And I’m the lowest weight group so I donate the least ml so double that time is quite ridiculous.)
I’ve never had a bad experience here with the donation process or the staff. They do their best to make small talk with you and I have never felt judged or looked down on for donating. As long as you keep your health top notch they won’t defer you.
I truly enjoy this place and am saddened that I’m going to have to leave it in the fall when I move, because I know the donation center where I’m going doesn’t come close to this one. You guys have got me spoiled!

I have been going here for about a year now and it’s great. It’s always very clean and welcoming. The staff at the front are always friendly and greet you when you come in. The technicians are always nice and make small talk. They do their best to be gentle when sticking the needle in you.
They do their best to get you in and out pretty quickly. I’m usually there about 50 minutes. Check in process online is very easy. The whole process when you go in is easy and streamlined. The money that they give you on a debit card is great. You can make $ 70 a week if you go twice a week. That’s pretty good money for two hours of my time.
I haven’t had any issues so I will continue to go. Just make sure you eat healthy and drink lots of water. It can make you get dehydrated really fast and sometimes make me very tired. Good experience and money though.

NEVER ASK A NURSE ANYTHING EVER, TALK TO YOUR OWN DOCTOR. Been going for a while now, used the extra money for food and gas and other fun things, but now I’m permabanned. All started when I asked a nurse what kind of side effects I should be excepting, then they wouldn’t let me make appointments until some doctor came in to review my question? um, ok. Now I’m banned for life at all facilities. I WILL NEVER DONATE AGAIN FOR AS LONG AS I LIVE, SO SAY BIOLIFE. Turns out the nurse filed a «reaction form» which seems kinda dumb because any kind of reaction at all, in any interval results in a ban for life so why not just make it a big red «PERMABAN» button on the wall you can slam and laugh in the patients face while glitter rains down from the celling. Can you taste the salt? because I’m pretty salty right now.

The staff at BioLife is extremely friendly and professional– everyone usually asks how you’re doing at least once. The facility is also clean and comfortable. Biolife is an easy way to make a little extra money (fast) while helping others.

I’m a regular and have been going for 3 yrs now. Normally it’s okay, but not all of their staff is friendly though. The day after Thanksgiving I go in and get a girl named Marie? Unfriendly and rude. I started to ask had we meet cause of the attitude from the jump. I may go back but I’ll request someone else. Employee upgrade needed!

I have been going here for three years. I used to love this place. I was deferred for 6 months because of a tattoo. I came back, and not only did I have to wait an hour, they deferred me for 3 months because one of my arms had a small vein. This was never a problem before this new person decided it was. I’ve donated many times in this arm. I will never go here again. I don’t donate for the money, I donate to help people. I’ll donate blood at carter bloodcare.

today was the first time donating plasma and i really like this place. the staff is friendly and walks you through the whole process. for first time patients it will take longer to donate because you have to go through the whole new patient thing. i would recommend you come here is you want to donate plasma because they know what they are doing here.

Ugh, 1 star because I didn’t even get to donate plasma. I’m frustrated by the lack of communication between the staff and management. So the first time I tried to donate a few months back, they turned me down right away because my SSN card has my mother’s maiden name on it, and I don’t normally use that maiden name so all my other documents like my DL has just my first, middle, last name. I don’t normally have an issue with this at other places, but I was like, fine whatever. Fast forward to last week, I was interested in trying again since their site said to call if I didn’t have all the necessary documents. I called the day before donating to ask if there was anything I could bring in, like a pay stub or W2, the person on the phone said it would be fine as long as it had my full SSN on it. So… day OF donation, I called again, just because I wanted to make sure all would go fine since it would be a waste of my gas and time to drive there if there was a problem… a different person answered, put me on hold after I asked, said she was going to ask the manager, she said yes bringing a pay stub with my name and full SSN would be fine.
Sooooo… I printed out my pay stub from my work office… honestly didn’t think it would cause an issue that my paystub printed out about 3 pages long. so my name ended up being on the first page, SSN on the second. But it was all the same file/​document. Anyways… I finally got to Biolife, went to sign in at the front desk, immediately the lady at the counter starts shaking her head and saying it wouldn’t work, blah blah blah. I immediately tell her that I spoke with 2 separate people to make sure this BS wouldn’t happen. She takes my papers and goes to speak with someone I assume was a manager? Anyways after a few minutes she comes back and tells me it’s not acceptable. Basically the only way I could donate was to revise my driver license. Psh, not going through all that hassle for this.
So, I wasted my time and money. blah.

I’ve been here quite a few times now, and find everyone to be so nice and helpful. They were very informative and answered every question thoroughly. None of the other donors seem sketchy, everyone looks to be UNT students.
A tip: I’d bring a zip up sweatshirt! It gets very cold at the end when they replenish you with saline, and it’s hard to get a regular sweatshirt over your head when you’re arm is bandaged tight! Also, search online beforehand because they’ll have incentive coupons to bring in that will get you some extra $$.
The first appointment takes about 2.5 hours (due to the initial physical and including time to actual donate). After that, each appointment takes about an hour.
It’s an easy way to make some extra cash and do something to help others.

I’ve never sold blood before but thought I’d give it a shot for a little extra money. I got myself ready for the first visit which was a bit of a pain. I skipped my morning coffee, ate some stuff I wouldn’t normally eat, drank more water than I cared to in order to make sure I was hydrated, and I didn’t smoke for 2 hours before going in. I get there and I was helped by a very rude lady, and everybody seemed rude. Employees all seemed disgruntled and were arguing with each other.
I was there maybe 5 minutes, going through part of the sign up and not yet answering any actual health questions, and the lady suddenly turned me away. The reason? I «smelled a little smoky». You can be a smoker and donate, although you’re supposed to abstain for about an hour beforehand (which I doubled just in case), but it had nothing to do with that. In fact she asked me if I had another shirt in my car I could wear and not be turned away. Now I didn’t REAK of smoke. Like I said, I hadn’t smoked in a couple of hours and before I left the house I showered, put on a little cologne/​deoderant and put on some clothes fresh out of the laundry. I know that doesn’t eliminate all smoke smell, but I don’t know what else they expect me to do. I wouldn’t have minded at all if it had something to do with the actual collection process or something like that, but from the way she was acting even before she noticed or said anything, it had more to do with her not wanting to work and just coming up with an excuse. She told me I could come back the next day and try again. I asked her why, if this was a problem, I passed their employees smoking outside as I came in (and saw it again as I left) and all she could come up with was «Well I don’t smoke». I just told her to give me my ID cards back and I left.

Zero stars!!! Rude and Incompetent employees! Will never go back! I drove an hour from McKinney in traffic with my boyfriend to get to this place. When we arrive they tell us that because my boyfriend was «more than ten minutes late» (we were only 11 minutes late) for his appointment that he wouldn’t be able to donate. After speaking with the supervisor, he allowed both of us to donate. The same girl who told us he couldn’t donate took me back for a «vein check». After feeling my arms for about 2 minutes, I was told that I wouldn’t be able to donate because my veins couldn’t handle the needle which I think is just a way for them not to have to stay late to process another donor. So after wasting an hour drive here, only my boyfriend could donate and he would get a lousy $ 20. The staff is rude and immature. Don’t waste your time!

Everyone here is so friendly and they make the experience as relaxing as possible.

Very efficient and friendly staff.