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Octapharma Plasma - Vancouver

2.7 (20 reviews)
Open • 8:00 am - 6:00 pm

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People here are really nice and donating experience is good but I wish they showed a little more respect to donors time. I believe they could be more efficient. Sometimes you can see them standing around talking instead of processing donors. Just a little careless in that matter I think. Maybe they're just short on staff, hence this review. Management, please address this issue as much as you can. I'm sure others as well as myself would be more willing to donate more often if it's a much quicker turn around.

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The workers are mostly upbeat and laughing every time I come in. The atmosphere means a lot while being so vulnerable in a public setting.

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very clean place to donate !! Ladies there were ok, a bit too personal for my preference . overall a B-

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American Red Cross Clark County Donor Center

3.9(10 reviews)
2.0 mi

I've been donating blood since I was 16, but this donation center is honestly in a category of its…read moreown. I've been coming here consistently for a little over a year now, and it genuinely feels like I'm stopping by to hang out with friends who just happen to take some blood from me and feed me snacks. Everyone here is incredibly friendly and welcoming, and what really stands out is how familiar and sincere the staff are with each other and with donors. There's clearly very little turnover, and it shows. People know your name, greet you like you're a regular, and actually seem to enjoy being there. It gives big "Cheers" vibes, but with juice boxes. I've donated whole blood many times here and platelets as well, and every experience has been smooth and comfortable. The staff are professional, have steady hands, and make the process easy and not stressful at all. Brittany and Abby are two names I remember, but honestly every single person I've interacted with has been wonderful. I've never once left thinking, "I hope I don't get that person next time." Quite the opposite. I never thought I'd describe donating blood as a fun experience, but here we are. If you're going to do something good for the world, you might as well do it somewhere that makes you feel appreciated and comfortable. Wonderful humans!

This was my first donation at an on-site, brick and mortar donation center. Overall, it was quite…read morea nice experience. The people who did the standard health check, did the draw (power red - also a first for me), and checked in on me throughout were extremely kind, thorough, helpful, and professional. The donation area's chairs were very comfortable, and the donation process was very smooth and easy. The only real downside was the surly attitude general unpleasantness of the person working the front desk. Had I been a first-time donor, I'd probably have turned around and walked away, but I'm happy that I didn't.

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CSL Plasma

3.7(112 reviews)
19.0 mi

Friendly staff, very clean facility. All the snacks!…read more Was very welcoming to new patients. Very smooth process and everyone was able to answer all my questions at every stop.

My visit to CSL Plasma felt less like a plasma donation and more like volunteering to participate…read morein a live experiment titled: "How Long Can a Human Sit in a Chair Before Questioning Reality?" The wait time? Absolutely legendary. I arrived when the sun was up. I left when I had developed a deeper understanding of patience than any meditation retreat could ever teach. I'm pretty sure I watched the entire lifecycle of a houseplant while sitting there. Understaffed doesn't even begin to describe it. It felt like three employees were trying to run an operation built for thirty. Phones ringing, lines backing up, people waiting everywhere, and the few staff members present looked like they were moving in slow motion. Not rushed. Not hustling. Just... gliding through time at a pace that suggested they had nowhere to be for the next decade. Every step took forever. Check-in? Forever. Screening? Forever. Actually getting seated? A saga. I've seen sloths show more urgency crossing a road. The frustrating part isn't even the wait, it's that you can clearly see the bottleneck happening in real time. People stacked up. Staff casually strolling between stations. No sense of urgency. No communication about delays. Just vibes and fluorescent lighting. If you have absolutely nothing else to do for the next several hours and you enjoy watching efficiency take a personal day, this might be your spot. If there were an Olympic event for "Turning 45 Minutes Into an Existential Crisis," this place would take gold, silver, and bronze. The atmosphere? Imagine a DMV that lost its will to live, mixed with fluorescent lighting bright enough to interrogate a superhero. The chairs have the personality of unsalted rice cakes. The energy in the room felt like everyone collectively realized they forgot to move their laundry to the dryer. Customer service? Let's just say I've had more warmth from an automated "Your call is important to us" message. I wasn't greeted , I was processed. I half expected someone to stamp "Fragile: Handle With Mild Indifference" on my forehead. The worst part isn't even the wait -- it's that they know they're bad and do absolutely nothing about it. Every complaint gets the same copy-paste "Sorry you had a bad experience, we're committed to improving" response... and then nothing changes. Same long waits. Same understaffed shifts. Same slow process. At some point it stops being a mistake and starts being the standard. And the paperwork. Oh, the paperwork. I'm fairly certain I signed something that gave them naming rights to my firstborn. By page 47, I was just autographing out of muscle memory. By the end of it all, I walked out feeling like I had just completed a side quest in a video game I didn't agree to start. Would I return? Only if stranded in a desert and the only way home required donating plasma to power a spaceship. One star. And that star is for the parking lot, which at least had clear lines.

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CSL Plasma - Two feet. Zero progress. "Just a few minutes" apparently means "go ahead and renew your driver's license while you wait."

Two feet. Zero progress. "Just a few minutes" apparently means "go ahead and renew your driver's license while you wait."

CSL Plasma - Barely even a mark!

Barely even a mark!

CSL Plasma - Barely a mark at all.

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Barely a mark at all.

CSL Plasma - Worsening bruise from a botched draw.

CSL Plasma

3.4(106 reviews)
9.9 mi•Rockwood, Northeast Portland

The employees are great and have such nice personalities that it makes it a pleasure to have them…read morethere when I donate, there are two that stand out to me a lot and maybe it's because they seem to be the most gentle to me as phlebotomists , but Wendy& Sladonna have a special way of making me feel as comfortable as possible, all the other phlebotomist are good as well don't get me wrong. I like them all:) Overall, I've always had really good experiences since I've started doing this and the staffs patience and demeanor are professional, and welcomed in a world like today .

I used to donate plasma at this location and decided to come back for some extra cash. I came in on…read moreMonday after being away for a few months, so I had to redo all the initial steps -- no big deal, I expected that. At the medical check, I was denied because of a small scrape on my arm. Odd, but it's their policy, so I understood. I came back today (Wednesday) at 4:30 PM. The location was busy with a mix of new and returning donors. I checked in at the front desk (the woman at station 1, on the right side) and was told I needed to go to medical first. I waited until 5:45 PM -- over an hour -- before I noticed someone who'd checked in after me get called back to medical ahead of me. When I asked staff about it, they told me I hadn't actually been added to the queue. They quickly took my back and checked my scrape (took about two minutes) and "cleared me", but then I had to redo my initial check-in and get back in line for medical again. At that point I'd already lost over an hour to what should've been a quick med check and donation. I waited another 20 minutes in line and left. What's frustrating is that this was entirely avoidable -- if they'd just added me to the queue correctly the first time, and the medical check could've happened along with my scrape check instead of me being sent to the back of the line twice.

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Octapharma Plasma - Vancouver - blooddonation - Updated October 2026

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