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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]
Vitalant is the nation’s largest independent, nonprofit blood services provider exclusively focused on providing blood and comprehensive transfusion medicine services. [2] The organization comprises a network of about 120 donation centers across the U.S. and are the sole blood provider to about 900 hospitals across the United States.
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.
The Blood Emergency Readiness Corps (known as "BERC" or the "BERC Program") consists of 38 U.S.-based community blood centers that work together to provide an emergency reserve of blood products to respond to a mass shooting or mass casualty event.
Blood Centers of the Pacific was a community-based, nonprofit blood center collecting blood donations and provides safe blood and blood components for transfusion and also related services to more than 40 hospitals [1] in the Bay Area and Northern California. Its predecessors included the first blood bank in the United States, which through ...
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.
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is a technique that combines the use of endoscopy and fluoroscopy to diagnose and treat certain problems of the biliary or pancreatic ductal systems. It is primarily performed by highly skilled and specialty trained gastroenterologists.
AABB publishes a variety of other materials for the blood and biotherapies field, including the standards by which it accredits institutions. Since 1953, the organization has also operated a National Blood Exchange to facilitate transfers of blood products during shortages or when rare blood types are required.