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Blood Innovations - A joint venture partnership between Stanford Blood Center, Northern California Community Blood Bank, BloodSource and Blood Bank of the Redwoods. http://www.bloodinnovations.org/
Blood Innovations Mission Statement:
PURPOSE
To support independent community-based blood centers.
ACTION
Blood Innovations supports:
- The most effective community-supported blood donor programs;
- The best blood center practices; a coordinated blood resource program for production and sale of blood products
GOAL
To survive the transitions in health care TOGETHER.
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Associations:
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America’s Blood Centers
www.americasblood.org
America's Blood Centers (ABC) is North America's largest network of non-profit, community blood centers. ABC's U.S. members are licensed and regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Canadian members are regulated by Health Canada. ABC Members serve more than 180 million people at 600-plus collection sites, and provide blood products and services to more than 4,200 hospitals and healthcare facilities across North America.
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Blood Centers of America
www.bca.coop
Blood Centers of America, Inc., (BCA) is a cooperative whose members are community blood centers. Their member blood centers provide thirty percent of the nation's transfusion requirements. BCA's focus is on improving the operations and business activities of the member blood centers.
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American Association of Blood Banks
www.aabb.org
AABB is an international association representing individuals and institutions involved in activities related to transfusion and cellular therapies, including transplantation medicine. AABB member facilities are responsible for collecting virtually all of the nation’s blood supply and transfusing more than 80 percent of all blood and blood components used in the United States.
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Agencies:
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US Food and Drug Administration
www.fda.gov
The FDA is responsible for ensuring the safety of our nation's blood supply. The Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) regulates the collection of blood and blood components used for transfusion or for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals derived from blood and blood components, such as clotting factors, and establishes standards for the products themselves.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
www.cdc.gov
For over 60 years, CDC has been dedicated to protecting health and promoting quality of life through the prevention and control of disease, injury, and disability. We are committed to programs that reduce the health and economic consequences of the leading causes of death and disability, thereby ensuring a long, productive, healthy life for all people. CDC is one of the major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Department of Health and Human Services
www.hhs.gov
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. The work of HHS is conducted by the Office of the Secretary and 11 agencies.
Agencies: The agencies perform a wide variety of tasks and services, including research, public health, food and drug safety, grants and other funding, health insurance, and many others.
Offices: The subdivisions of the Office of the Secretary provide direct support for the Secretary's initiatives.
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California Department of Public Health
www.cdph.ca.gov
Vision - Healthy individuals and families in healthful communities.
Mission - The California Department of Public Health is dedicated to optimizing the health and well-being of the people in California.
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Other Links of Interest
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 National Marrow Donor Program
marrow.org
Creating connections. Saving lives.
The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) and our fundraising partner, The Marrow Foundation, are nonprofit organizations dedicated to creating an opportunity for all patients to receive the bone marrow or umbilical cord blood transplant they need, when they need it.
Every year, thousands of men, women and children get life-threatening diseases like leukemia and lymphoma. Many of them will die unless they get a bone marrow or cord blood transplant from a genetically matched donor. Some people find a match in their family, but 70% do not. These patients depend on the NMDP to help them find an unrelated donor or cord blood unit.
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 The Bone Marrow Foundation
www.bonemarrow.org
The Bone Marrow Foundation was founded in 1992 with a single vital goal: to improve the quality of life for children and adults who are undergoing transplantation as a life saving treatment for leukemia, Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, multiple myeloma, aplastic anemia, severe combined immunodeficiency, neuroblastoma and many other cancers and genetic disorders.
The Foundation is the only organization of its kind that does not limit assistance to a specific disease, type of transplant or age range. All of the foundation’s services are offered free to patients and their families.
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