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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.
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.
The National Donor Monument, Naarden, the Netherlands Organ donation is the process when a person authorizes an organ of their own to be removed and transplanted to another person, legally, either by consent while the donor is alive, through a legal authorization for deceased donation made prior to death, or for deceased donations through the authorization by the legal next of kin.
Memorial Hermann–Texas Medical Center is a nationally ranked hospital at the Texas Medical Center. It is the first hospital founded in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas (and its founding predates the Texas Medical Center). Founded in 1925, it is the primary teaching hospital for McGovern Medical School (formerly The University of ...
Howard University Hospital (HUH) is a private, nonprofit institution in Washington, D.C. affiliated with Howard University. It is the nation's only teaching hospital on the campus of a historically black university. [ 3] It offers medical students opportunities to observe and participate in clinical and research work with professionals.
1998: United States' first adult-to-adult living donor liver transplant University of Illinois Medical Center; 1999: First successful tissue engineered bladder transplanted by Anthony Atala (Boston Children's Hospital, US) 2000: First robotic donor nephrectomy for a living-donor kidney transplant in the world University of Illinois Medical Center
Banner - University Medical Center Phoenix is a hospital of the Banner Health System and is one of the flagship facilities of the system. The hospital is affiliated with the University of Arizona Colleges of Medicine in Phoenix and Tucson. [2] The hospital is an American College of Surgeons verified Level 1 Trauma Center [3] and has a rooftop ...
The donor's hematocrit or hemoglobin level is tested to make sure that the loss of blood will not make them anemic, and this check is the most common reason that a donor is ineligible. [33] Accepted hemoglobin levels for blood donations, by the American Red Cross, is 12.5g/dL (for females) and 13.0g/dL (for males) to 20.0g/dL, anyone with a ...