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Versiti Blood Center of Illinois [34] Indiana South Bend Medical Foundation [35] Versiti Blood Center of Indiana [36] Iowa ImpactLife (Formerly: Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center) [31] LifeServe Blood Center [37] Kentucky Kentucky Blood Center [38] Western Kentucky Regional Blood Center [39] Louisiana LifeShare Blood Center [40] Ochsner ...
LifeServe Blood Center (Des Moines, Iowa) [25] LifeSouth Community Blood Centers (Gainesville, Florida) [26] LifeStream Blood Bank (San Bernardino, California) [27] Marsh Regional Blood Center (Bristol, Tennessee) MEDIC Regional Blood Center (Knoxville, Tennessee) [28] Miller-Keystone Blood Center (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) [29]
2012 - 96600 units of blood in single day; 2014 - They have collected 100,212 units of blood in single day and got their name registered in the Guinness Book of Records; 2016 - Conducted marathon world longest blood donation drive by organizing nonstop blood donation camps from 01 Jan 2016 to 31 December 2016 in parts of country.
In 1974, hospitals were in critical need of volunteer blood donors after the FDA curtailed the practice of paying donors for blood donations. Gainesville, Florida hospitals (Alachua General Hospital, UF Health Shands Hospital and North Florida Regional Medical Center) all agreed that a non-profit community blood center was the answer and made an appeal to all local civic organizations.
Founded in 1962, America's Blood Centers (ABC) is an association of independent non-profit blood centers that operates in Canada and the United States. ABC member organizations operate more than 600 blood collection sites providing close to 60 percent of the U.S., and a quarter of the Canadian, blood supply.
Other blood banks that later became part of Blood Systems were founded in this same time period, including Blood Centers of the Pacific—whose predecessor, the Irwin Memorial Blood Bank, was founded in 1941 as the first community blood bank in the United States [5] [6] —and the Inland Northwest Blood Center (1945). [7] Blood Systems was the ...
ImpactLife, formerly Community Blood Services of Illinois, is a blood center located in Urbana, Illinois. ImpactLife provides lifesaving blood products to more than 123 hospitals in a four-state region. Headquartered in Davenport, Iowa, with distribution hubs and donor centers in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, and Wisconsin.
In 1974 it was renamed Puget Sound Blood Center to better reflect its growing geography. In 1991 the reach of Puget Sound Blood Center expanded further when it was merged with the Snohomish-Island Counties Blood Bank. The blood bank rebranded itself again in 2015, adopting the name Bloodworks Northwest. [8]