Hemocentro Sao Lucas

What Hemocentro Sao Lucas does

Hemocentro São Lucas is a private Brazilian blood bank and hematology center founded in 1972, structured as a private association ('associação de natureza privada') and headquartered in São Paulo. The organization operates four fixed donation units across São Paulo state — São Bernardo do Campo, Guarulhos, Shopping Mais in São Paulo capital, and Ribeirão Preto — and runs an External Collection Services program that dispatches mobile teams to enterprises, universities, churches, and NGOs for on-site blood drives. Its service portfolio spans the full blood cycle (collection, processing, serological and immunohematological testing, storage, transport, quality control, and transfusion), advanced therapeutic procedures (therapeutic apheresis, bone marrow transplantation, stem cell collection, cryopreservation), specialized laboratories (serology, molecular biology, advanced immunohematology), and cell therapy. Donors can book appointments online through the RealBlood platform and receive post-donation exam results by email within 15 days.

The organization is led by Dr. Adelson Alves and serves two customer segments: hospital healthcare providers across São Paulo Capital, Greater São Paulo (Guarulhos, Osasco, ABC, Santos, Franco da Rocha), and Rio de Janeiro state, and individual blood donors aged 16–69 who supply the volunteer donor base. Revenue derives from professional services — supplying blood components and transfusion services to hospitals and conducting laboratory and consulting work — within the Brazilian healthcare system, with the implication of both SUS and private hospital customers. Pricing is not publicly disclosed.

The company has approximately 428 employees and emphasizes over 50 years of operational history as a brand differentiator. Its GTM motion is community-led: walk-in donors at physical units, online self-service appointment booking, and field-collected drives at institutional partners (minimum 80 participants per drive). A computerized blood cycle monitoring system tracks each unit from donor recruitment through compatibility testing, providing operational traceability rather than AI-driven functionality. No funding rounds, acquisitions, leadership changes, or restructuring events are recorded in the source material, consistent with a mature, privately held association operating with stable, incremental service expansion rather than venture-style growth.

Name

Hemocentro Sao Lucas

Legal name

Hemocentro São Lucas

Website

https://hemocentrosaolucas.com.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

1972

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Hemocentro São Lucas is a private Brazilian blood bank founded in 1972 that operates four donation units across São Paulo state, providing blood collection, processing, laboratory testing, and transfusion services to hospitals and individual donors in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Blood Banking and Transfusion Services

NAICS

Blood and Organ Banks (621991), Medical Laboratories (621511), Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories (6215)

SIC

Services-Medical Laboratories (8071), In Vitro & In Vivo Diagnostic Substances (2835)

akta.pro primary industry

Transfusion Medicine & Immunohematology (Blood Bank) (HLAFAMAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Blood Bank/Transfusion Medicine LIS (HLACAMAE), Blood Bank, Transfusion Medicine & Immunohematology (HLAHAAAH), Hematology & Coagulation Laboratories (HLAFAMAC), Plasma Collection & Donor Services (Plasmapheresis Centers) (HLAIAHAH), Cell & Tissue Banking (biobanking, cord blood/tissue) (HLAAAGAE)

Keywords

• Blood banking services
• Hemotherapy services
• Bone marrow transplantation
• Cell therapy
• Laboratory diagnostics

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Blood Banking and Transfusion Services: Provides blood component products and transfusion services to hospitals across São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Services include hemocomponents, therapeutic procedures, and laboratory services for the healthcare system.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Hemocentro São Lucas operates a blood bank and hematology center that collects, processes, tests, stores, and distributes blood components (red blood cells, platelets, plasma, cryoprecipitate) to hospitals. It also provides therapeutic procedures including bone marrow transplantation, stem cell collection, therapeutic apheresis, and cell therapy, along with specialized laboratory services in serology, molecular biology, and immunohematology. The organization operates four fixed donation units and a mobile external collection service for community drives.

Product overview

Hemocentro São Lucas operates as a blood bank and hematology center offering a comprehensive portfolio of blood-related services organized into four main product areas: Hemocomponentes (blood components for transfusion), Procedimentos Especiais (special processing services), Procedimentos Terapêuticos (therapeutic procedures including transplants), and Serviços de Laboratório (laboratory and consulting services). The organization also provides external blood collection services and digital patient services including online appointment scheduling and electronic exam results delivery. The system is supported by a computerized blood cycle monitoring system that tracks the entire process from donor recruitment through compatibility testing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Hemocomponentes Blood components including red blood cells, random platelets, fresh frozen plasma, apheresis platelets, and cryoprecipitate supplied for transfusion purposes to hospitals and healthcare providers.
• Procedimentos Especiais Special processing procedures for blood components including leukoreduction, irradiation, washing, aliquoting, phenotyped blood components, and rare donor bank services for hospitals requiring specialized blood products.
• Procedimentos Terapêuticos Therapeutic procedures including therapeutic apheresis, intraoperative recovery, therapeutic phlebotomy, bone marrow transplantation, stem cell collection, cryopreservation, and autologous blood donation for patients with hematological conditions.
• Serviços de Laboratório Laboratory services including serology laboratory, molecular biology laboratory, advanced immunohematology, training center, audit services, and transfusion committee for rational use of blood components, provided to hospitals and healthcare providers.
• Centro de Transplante de Medula Óssea Bone marrow transplant center performing collection, processing, storage, and transplantation of stem cells from bone marrow, peripheral blood, and umbilical cord blood for patients with hematological diseases.
• Terapia Celular Cell therapy using cells for therapeutic purposes, with complete laboratory structure for processing and cultivating cells for therapeutic purposes to restore organ and tissue function in patients with hematological diseases.
• Coleta Externa External blood collection service that dispatches a multidisciplinary team to external locations such as companies, universities, NGOs, and churches to collect blood donations on-site (minimum 80 participants required).

Quantifiable outcome

• One blood donation can save up to 4 lives
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Fundação Pró-Sangue: Public blood bank affiliated with the Hospital das Clínicas at the University of São Paulo. It is the largest blood center in São Paulo state and Hemocentro São Lucas's most direct competitor in its home market, offering collection, processing, and transfusion services to the same hospital network.
• Hemorio: Rio de Janeiro state's main public blood center, operating hemotherapy and hematology services. As Hemocentro São Lucas explicitly serves hospitals in Rio de Janeiro state, Hemorio is a directly competing supplier in that geography.
• Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein Blood Bank: Operates an in-house blood bank and transfusion medicine service within one of Brazil's leading private hospitals in São Paulo. Comparable service scope (collection, processing, transfusion) within a premium hospital system serving overlapping São Paulo patients.

Regional players

• Hemominas: Minas Gerais state public blood center providing blood collection, processing, and transfusion services. Comparable in operating model to Hemocentro São Lucas but serves a different Brazilian state, illustrating the regional peer set Hemocentro São Lucas would compete with if expanding beyond São Paulo/Rio.
• Hemoce: Ceará state public blood center offering blood components, transfusion medicine, and bone marrow donor registration. Operates a similar service portfolio to Hemocentro São Lucas but in Northeast Brazil, making it a structural comparable rather than direct competitor.
• Fundação Hemepar: Paraná state public blood center providing blood collection, processing, and specialized hematology services. Comparable operating model and product portfolio but anchored in a different Brazilian state (Curitiba-based).
• Fundação HEMOPA: Pará state blood center operating hemotherapy and hematology services in the Amazon region. Comparable business model (collection, processing, transfusion) but serves Northern Brazil rather than São Paulo/Rio.

Broad incumbents

• Empresa Brasileira de Hemoderivados e Biotecnologia (Hemobrás): State-owned Brazilian manufacturer of plasma-derived products that sources plasma from public blood centers across Brazil. Operates at a broader, upstream level of the blood-product value chain and is a structural reference for the Brazilian hemotherapy industry.

Others

• Sanquin Blood Supply: Dutch national blood bank combining collection, processing, transfusion medicine, and plasma-derived therapy manufacturing. Comparable integrated operating model (collection through transfusion plus cell therapy R&D) but at much larger national scale.
• Vitalant: Large U.S. nonprofit blood collector and transfusion medicine provider. Operates a comparable multi-center collection and hospital supply model and serves as a structural international comparable for Hemocentro São Lucas's operating playbook.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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