About Us
Facts about America's Blood Centers
Profile
Blood Banking Philosophy
Blood Collection Statistics
Research & Development
Founded in 1962, America's Blood Centers is North America's network of non-profit community blood centers.
- America's Blood Centers' U.S. members are licensed and regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Canadian members are regulated by Health Canada.
- Located in 45 U.S. states and Quebec, Canada.
- FY 2008-09 Audit Report
- FY 2008-09 IRS Form 990
America's Blood Centers' Members:
- Operate more than 600 donor centers.
- Provide blood products and services to more than 3,500 hospitals and healthcare facilities across North America.
America's Blood Centers' members subscribe to a community-based blood banking philosophy. That means community donors know that the blood they give stays in that community first – helping family members, friends and neighbors. Any excess supply is shared with other communities who need it most.
- America's Blood Centers' members collect more than 8 million units of whole blood (nearly half of the U.S., and Quebec, Canada's volunteer donor blood supply).
- America's Blood Centers' members provide nearly 10 million blood components (including red blood cells, platelets and plasma) to hospital customers annually.
- America's Blood Centers' members also provide hospitals and their patients with the majority of the nation’s tissue, bone marrow, stem cell and transfusion services.
- Corporate blood drives are America's Blood Centers' members' largest source of blood donations, followed by schools, civic groups and the faith community.
- America's Blood Centers' members are major recipients of blood-related NIH research funds.
- An America's Blood Centers' member (New York Blood Center) carried out the first hepatitis B vaccine trial and developed solvent-detergent plasma sterilization, a method to kill viruses in plasma products like anti-hemophilic factor.
- Eight members manage cord blood banks for transplantation. New York Blood Center operates the world's oldest and largest single public cord blood bank.
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An America's Blood Centers' member (Community Blood Center/Community Tissue Services) is one of the five largest tissue banks in the U.S.
