An 11-year-old patient celebrates her 100th blood transfusion at St. Luke’s Hospital.

Hannah has beta thalassemia, a blood disorder caused when the body doesn’t make enough of a protein called hemoglobin. When there isn’t enough hemoglobin, the body’s red blood cells don’t function properly and there are fewer healthy red blood cells in the bloodstream. As a result, Hannah needs blood transfusions about every three weeks and receives them at St. Luke’s.

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