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Nearly every hospital in the United States has a blood bank and transfusion service. The following is a list of groups that collect blood for transfusion and not a complete list of blood banks .
LifeSouth Community Blood Centers is a not-for-profit blood bank incorporated in Florida. [4] LifeSouth is headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, and serves over 125 hospitals in Florida, Georgia and Alabama. It has formerly been known as Civitan Regional Blood Centers.
This list of notable organ transplant donors and recipientsincludes people who were the first to undergo certain organ transplant procedures or were people who made significant contributions to their chosen field and who have either donated or received an organ transplantat some point in their lives, as confirmed by public information.
Before Florida A&M University announced a questionable $237 million donation, they received a striking email from the donor’s bank, raising a red flag that the historic gift may not be legitimate.
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. Located in Richmond, Virginia, the organization's headquarters are ...
Most medical students at Johns Hopkins University will no longer pay tuition thanks to a $1 billion gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies announced Monday.
Organ procurement organization. In the United States, an organ procurement organization (OPO) is a non-profit organization that is responsible for the evaluation and procurement of deceased-donor organs for organ transplantation. There are 57 such organizations in the United States, [1] each responsible for organ procurement in a specific ...
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 .