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America's Blood Centers (ABC), North America's largest network of non-profit community blood centers. [2] Most of the independent blood centers on this list are ABC members, and these account for approximately 60 percent of the U.S. blood supply. [3] Blood Centers of America (BCA), a national cooperative of independent blood centers. [4]
The United States does not have a centralized blood donation service. The American Red Cross collects approximately 35% of the blood used, while the rest is collected by independent nonprofit blood centers, most of which are members of America's Blood Centers. The US military collects blood from service members for its own use, but also draws ...
Iris versicolor or Iris versicolour is also commonly known as the blue flag, harlequin blueflag, larger blue flag, northern blue flag, [2] and poison flag, plus other variations of these names, [3] [4] and in Great Britain and Ireland as purple iris. [5] It is a species of Iris native to North America, in the Eastern United States and Eastern ...
In a June 18, 1945, address to Congress, General Dwight D. Eisenhower said of the American Red Cross service in World War II, "The Red Cross, with its clubs for recreation, its coffee and doughnuts in the forward areas, its readiness to meet the needs of the well and to help minister to the wounded has often seemed the friendly hand of this ...
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.
Limniris virginica (L.) Rodion. Xiphion virginicum (L.) Alef. Iris virginica , with the common name Virginia blueflag , [ 2 ] Virginia iris , great blue flag , or southern blue flag , [ 4 ] is a perennial species of flowering plant in the Iridaceae (iris) family, native to central and eastern North America.
The German Red Cross (DRK) was founded in 1921, bringing together various independent Red Cross associations that had previously operated autonomously within the German states. These regional branches trace their origins back to the former independent members of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Iris virginica L. – Virginia Iris; Series Longipetalae (Rocky Mountain or long-petaled iris) Iris longipetala Herb. – (Coast Iris) Iris missouriensis – Rocky Mountain Iris, Western Blue Flag; Series Prismaticae (contains just one species from America) Iris prismaticaPursh ex Ker-Gawl. – (Slender Blue Flag) Series Ruthenicae. Iris ...