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South Bend Medical Foundation [34] Versiti Blood Center of Indiana [35] Iowa. ImpactLife (Formerly: Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center) [36] LifeServe Blood Center [37] Kentucky. Kentucky Blood Center [38] Western Kentucky Regional Blood Center [39] Louisiana.
Kidney paired donation. Kidney paired donation ( KPD ), or paired exchange, is an approach to living donor kidney transplantation where patients with incompatible donors swap kidneys to receive a compatible kidney. KPD is used in situations where a potential donor is incompatible.
The United Network for Organ Sharing ( UNOS) is a non-profit scientific and educational organization that administers the only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network ( OPTN) in the United States, established ( 42 U.S.C. § 274) by the U.S. Congress in 1984 by Gene A. Pierce, founder of United Network for Organ Sharing.
New York City, New York ( Manhattan ) 1857. St. Mary's Medical Center. San Francisco, California. St. Mary's Medical Center (SMMC) is the oldest continuously operating hospital and the first Catholic hospital in San Francisco. St. Mary's Hospital was opened on July 27, 1857 by the Sisters of Mercy.
This is a list of hospitals in North Carolina. Five hospitals serve as university-affiliated academic medical centers: Duke University Hospital (Duke University), ECU Health (ECU), UNC Health (UNC), and Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and Atrium Health's Carolinas Medical Center (Wake Forest University), while WakeMed is an unaffiliated Level ...
This list of hospitals in Indianapolis includes 21 existing and 11 former hospitals located in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Most of the city's medical facilities belong to three private, non-profit hospital networks: Ascension St. Vincent Health, Community Health Network, and Indiana University Health.
Vitalant. 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 ...
Fields. Heart Surgery. Institutions. Stanford University. Norman Edward Shumway (February 9, 1923 – February 10, 2006) was a pioneer of heart surgery at Stanford University. [ 1] He was the 67th president of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the first to perform an adult human to human heart transplantation in the United States.