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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.
Honor walk. An honor walk (or hero walk) is a ceremonial event to commemorate a patient whose organs are donated. The event normally takes place as the patient is transported to an operating room or waiting ambulance prior to organ procurement. It is typically held for patients on life support with no chance of survival, but can also be held ...
Houchin Community Blood Bank [13] LifeStream Blood Bank [14] Northern California Community Blood Bank [15] San Diego Blood Bank [16] Stanford Blood Center [17] UCI Health Blood Donor Center [18] UCLA Blood & Platelet Center [19] Delaware. Blood Bank of Delmarva [20]
Organ transplantation is a medical procedure in which an organ is removed from one body and placed in the body of a recipient, to replace a damaged or missing organ. The donor and recipient may be at the same location, or organs may be transported from a donor site to another location. Organs and/or tissues that are transplanted within the same ...
Health care ratings. Health care ratings are ratings or evaluations of health care. In the United States they have been an increasingly used tool to try to drive accountability among health care providers and in the context of classic supply / demand view of Health economics, to help health care consumers make better choices. [ 1]
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 ...
Farm equipment maker John Deere says it will no longer sponsor “social or cultural awareness” events, becoming the latest major U.S. company to distance itself from diversity and inclusion ...
Catholic Charities USA is a member of Caritas Internationalis, an international federation of Catholic social service organizations. [ 4] Catholic Charities USA is the national office of 167 local Catholic Charities agencies nationwide. Founded in 1910 as the National Conference of Catholic Charities ( NCCC ), the organization changed its name ...