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  2. List of blood donation agencies in the United States - Wikipedia

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    America's Blood Centers (ABC), North America's largest network of non-profit community blood centers. 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. Blood Centers of America (BCA), a national cooperative of independent blood centers.

  3. Vitalant - Wikipedia

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    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 . Vitalant is the nation’s largest independent, nonprofit blood services ...

  4. America's Blood Centers - Wikipedia

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    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. These blood centers serve more than ...

  5. Cord Blood Banking: Your Questions Answered - WebMD

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    Fees for the initial processing and storage of private cord blood banking range from $1,300 to $2,200. There is also an annual fee. The odds that a child will need to use her own stem cells for a ...

  6. Bloodworks Northwest - Wikipedia

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    Bloodworks Northwest is a blood bank and medical research institute headquartered in Seattle, Washington, that serves 90 hospitals in western Washington and Oregon. It has formerly been known as the Puget Sound Blood Center and King County Central Blood Bank. The organization is accredited by AABB (formerly the American Association of Blood ...

  7. FDA considers updating blood donation guidelines to keep ...

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    The FDA is considering a couple of strategies to update its guidelines. The first consideration is to do selective testing of a donor’s blood based on their history of malaria infection, having ...

  8. Blood bank - Wikipedia

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    Blood bank in France. A blood bank is a center where blood gathered as a result of blood donation is stored and preserved for later use in blood transfusion.The term "blood bank" typically refers to a department of a hospital usually within a clinical pathology laboratory where the storage of blood product occurs and where pre-transfusion and blood compatibility testing is performed.

  9. Memorial Blood Centers - Wikipedia

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    Memorial Blood Centers. /  44.96361°N 93.20111°W  / 44.96361; -93.20111. Memorial Blood Centers is a blood bank in Minnesota, United States. It is a division of Innovative Blood Resources (IBR), and supplies blood to hospitals and clinic partners, national blood centers, biotechnology companies, research institutions, in the US and abroad.