Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Certain placental tissue products are used as wound coverings in the care of difficult-to-heal wounds, including some diabetic foot ulcers.
Helping Others
Your Gift Can Have a Second Purpose.
After birth, placentas are commonly discarded. With informed consent and careful recovery, donated placental tissue may instead support medical applications for people in need.
The Opportunity
Giving Birth Tissue a Meaningful Second Purpose
The placenta is a remarkable part of pregnancy. Once your baby is born and the placenta has been delivered, it is usually discarded if it is not needed for medical evaluation.
Donation offers another possibility. When tissue is suitable and meets applicable requirements, it can be recovered and processed for uses in medicine and research. Your care and your baby's care always come first.
Medical Applications
How Donated Placental Tissue May Help
Appropriately recovered and processed birth tissue can be used in different clinical settings. The specific use depends on the tissue, the finished product, and the treating clinician.
Other Complex Wounds
Placental tissue products may be used as coverings for certain chronic or difficult-to-heal wounds, as determined by the patient's care team.
Eye Care
Some amniotic membrane products are used in ophthalmic care for selected conditions affecting the surface of the eye.
Burn Care
Certain birth tissue products may serve as coverings in the clinical care of burns and other injuries requiring specialized wound management.
Images illustrate areas of care. They do not depict a specific donation, treatment outcome, or guaranteed result.
Responsible Stewardship
What Happens After Donation?
Donated tissue follows a structured process before it can be considered for a medical or research application.
Respectful Recovery
Following informed consent and delivery, trained personnel recover and identify donated tissue according to program procedures.
Review and Evaluation
Donor information, testing, and tissue suitability are evaluated. Donated tissue must meet applicable safety and quality requirements.
A Potential Second Purpose
Tissue that meets the relevant requirements may be processed for an appropriate medical application or support scientific research.
The Organization Behind the Program
Physician-Led by Celquest LLC
My Placenta Gift is a donation outreach program of Celquest LLC. Founded by physicians with experience in obstetrics, perinatology, newborn medicine, and birth tissue, Celquest LLC brings clinical leadership to the ethical recovery and responsible stewardship of donated placenta and umbilical cord tissue.
Celquest LLC works with donor coordination, recovery, quality, and compliance professionals. Its work supports the potential development of tissue products and responsibly sourced materials for scientific research, while treating every donor and donation with respect.
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Have Questions About Placenta Donation?
Learn how the process fits around birth, or contact our team for information about the My Placenta Gift program.