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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]
Middlesex Hospital is a non-profit, acute care community hospital in Middletown, Connecticut. Its service area includes Middlesex County, Connecticut, and the lower Connecticut River Valley region. In 2015 Middlesex became the first hospital in Connecticut to join the Mayo Clinic Care Network. [2]
The world's first blood donor service was established in 1921 by the secretary of the British Red Cross, Percy Lane Oliver. [14] Volunteers were subjected to a series of physical tests to establish their blood group. The London Blood Transfusion Service was free of charge and expanded rapidly. By 1925, it was providing services for almost 500 ...
Western Connecticut Health Network was a non-profit group of three Western Connecticut hospitals formed in 2010 by Danbury Hospital, New Milford Hospital and Norwalk Hospital. In 2019, WCHN merged with Health Quest, a chain of hospitals mostly in the Hudson Valley, to become Nuvance Health .
Silvermine River Valley of Fairfield County, New Canaan, Connecticut, United States Coordinates 41°09′54″N 73°28′08″W / 41.165°N 73.469°W / 41.165; -
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 ...
The town has an incorporated volunteer ambulance service, that provides basic life support and transport services Monday through Friday from 6:00 pm – 6:00 am and weekends 24 hours. [34] Advanced life support and transport during all other times is provided by American Medical Response. With this system the taxpayers get charged one bill sent ...
Providence Health & Services is a not-for-profit Catholic healthcare system headquartered in Renton, Washington.. The health system includes 51 hospitals, more than 800 non-acute facilities, and numerous assisted living facilities in the western half of the United States (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, New Mexico, and Texas).