Kentucky Blood Center is a non-profit community blood center that recruits volunteer blood donors in more than 60 counties and processes and distributes blood products to nearly 70 hospitals and clinics in Kentucky. Founded in 1968 by the Lexington Medical Society, KBC is headquartered in Lexington where it operates the Beaumont and Andover donor centers. KBC also has donor centers in Somerset and Pikeville.

KBC is regulated and inspected by the Food and Drug Administration to assure it is meeting all standards of quality, potency and purity. Additional inspections are regularly conducted by AABB (American Association of Blood Banks). KBC is a member of America's Blood Centers and the Blood Centers of America.

Donated blood components are vital to a wide range of treatments including cancer, trauma, sickle cell, organ transplant, surgeries and much more. Presently, more than half of all blood donations come from blood drives organized and hosted by volunteers at businesses, churches, schools and community centers. Blood drives can be indoors at host facilities with adequate space and amenities, or on specially-designed bloodmobiles.

KBC frequently uses the phrase “Only With You” to emphasize the relationship that exists among its many stakeholders – donors, patients, hospitals, employees, volunteers, charitable donors, blood drive hosts, elected officials, community leaders. Only by collaborating together in a mission of lifesaving is the Kentucky Blood Center able to assure the blood supply is safe and reliable.