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The Blood Connection [29] Ohio Hoxworth Blood Center [52] Solvita (formerly known as Community Blood Center) (Dayton) [53] [54] [55] Versiti Blood Center of Ohio [56] Vitalant [57] Oklahoma Oklahoma Blood Institute [58] Oregon Bloodworks Northwest [59] Pennsylvania Central Pennsylvania Blood Bank [60]
Vitalant (formerly Blood Systems Inc. [1]) is a nonprofit organization that collects blood from volunteer donors and provides blood, blood products and services across the United States. It was founded in 1943 as the Salt River Valley Blood Bank in Phoenix, Arizona .
In 2014, the New York Blood Center's National Cord Blood Program (NCBP) at the Howard P. Milstein Cord Blood Center received the Prix Galien USA “Best Biotechnology Product” distinction for the development of HEMACORD, an innovative hematopoietic stem cell product and the first of its kind to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration ...
Hematopoietic cells can come from bone marrow, umbilical cord blood, or the circulating blood (peripheral blood stem cells (PBSCs)). Hematopoietic cells are a type of adult (i.e., non-embryonic) stem cell that can multiply and differentiate into the three types of blood cells: red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.
In September 2010, Labcorp acquired Genzyme Genetics, formerly a division of Genzyme Corporation, with 9 testing laboratories and approximately 1,900 employees, for $925 million in cash. [36] In February 2011, Labcorp acquired the assets of bankrupt Westcliff Medical Laboratory. The FTC challenged the acquisition but lost in court. [37] [38] [39]
Haemonetics products can be considered as belonging to two broad categories. Donor products (marketed to the blood donation industry, these include products that automate the blood donation process, automate the processing of blood, support pathogen inactivation and bacterial detection of blood, and test blood hematocrit); and products that are marketed to the surgical suite for blood loss ...
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.
To date, the BERC reserve has responded to supply blood products needed as a result of the Collierville Kroger shooting (Collierville, TN), the 2021 Oxford High School shooting (Oxford Township, MI), the Tornado outbreak in the Mississippi Valley of December 10–11, 2021, the Robb Elementary School Shooting (Uvalde, TX) on May 14, 2022, the ...