Central California Blood Center (CCBC) President and CEO Dean Eller promised his daughter, Jenny, the night she passed away from leukemia that her work to save lives through blood donation would not stop. Dean didn’t know at the time how that heartbreaking but very special promise would come together, but, with the full support of his wife, Claudia, he moved from mortgage banker and volunteer Blood Center spokesperson, to its CEO. In 1999, the plan for the “kept promise” began to form. With the need for more and more blood, as well as, increased demands for advanced, extensive testing; a new and much larger blood center became the goal and the dream.  On, August 31, 2009 the new Jenny Eller Donor Center opened its doors to the public... watch the following video to see this "promise" become a reality.