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The Blood Connection joins nation’s first emergency blood reserve

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Thursday, December 2, 2021
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The Blood Emergency Readiness Corps (BERC) is composed of blood centers from across the nation that have committed to collecting extra blood units on a rotating, on call schedule.

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  • The Blood Emergency Readiness Corps (BERC) is composed of blood centers from across the nation that have committed to collecting extra blood units on a rotating, on call schedule.
  • The extra blood products will be held in reserve for any critical-need scenario, like a mass shooting or natural disaster.
  • Three on call blood centers sent extra blood units to Versiti the blood center that serves the area to meet the immediate medical needs of the eight remaining victims.
  • With BERC, partner blood centers will know exactly how much emergency blood is available and where it will come from.

Michigan shooting activates US emergency blood reserve

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Wednesday, December 1, 2021
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Blood Emergency Readiness Corps has activated, sending extra blood units in response to yesterday's school shooting in Oxford Township, MI.

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  • OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Blood Emergency Readiness Corps has activated, sending extra blood units in response to yesterday's school shooting in Oxford Township, MI.
  • The Blood Emergency Readiness Corps is sending extra blood units in response to yesterday's school shooting in Michigan.
  • Through BERC, blood centers prepare for emergency needs by collecting extra blood products on a rotating on-call schedule.
  • Central Pennsylvania Blood Bank , Coastal Bend Blood Center and Oklahoma Blood Institute were the responding blood centers for this emergency activation.

Memphis shootings activate US emergency blood reserve

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Friday, September 24, 2021
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Answering a call from Vitalant, a blood supplier serving the local area, the Blood Emergency Readiness Corps (BERC) raced to ship boxes of red blood cells for trauma care.

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  • Answering a call from Vitalant, a blood supplier serving the local area, the Blood Emergency Readiness Corps (BERC) raced to ship boxes of red blood cells for trauma care.
  • Memphis mass shooting marks the first time new BERC network has responded to a major blood emergency.
  • The original seven BERC blood centers are Carter BloodCare (Dallas), Central Pennsylvania Blood Bank (Harrisburg), The Community Blood Center (Appleton, WI), Houchin Community Blood Bank (Bakersfield, CA), Oklahoma Blood Institute (Oklahoma City), South Texas Blood & Tissue Center (San Antonio), and We Are Blood (Austin).
  • The South Texas Blood & Tissue Center (STBTC) is a nonprofit community blood center that provides blood, plasma, platelets and other blood components to more than 100 hospitals and healthcare providers throughout Texas and beyond.

South Texas Blood & Tissue Center joins nation’s first emergency blood reserve

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Monday, September 13, 2021
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If no emergency situation arises, the blood products will be returned to South Texas Blood & Tissue Centers general inventory, to be used for local needs.

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  • If no emergency situation arises, the blood products will be returned to South Texas Blood & Tissue Centers general inventory, to be used for local needs.
  • The program includes the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, We Are Blood (serving the Austin area), Carter BloodCare (Dallas), Houchin Community Blood Bank (Southern California), Oklahoma Blood Institute, the Community Blood Center (Wisconsin), and Central Pennsylvania Blood Bank.
  • About the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center:
    The South Texas Blood & Tissue Center (STBTC) is a nonprofit community blood center that provides blood, plasma, platelets and other blood components to 100 hospitals in 48 South Texas counties.
  • BioBridge Global (BBG) is a San Antonio, Texas-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit regenerative medicine enterprise that offers diverse services through its subsidiaries the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, QualTex Laboratories, GenCure and The Blood & Tissue Center Foundation.

Blood centers launch nation's first emergency blood reserve

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Friday, September 10, 2021

Facing an unsteady blood supply, blood centers have formed a partnership to prepare their areas for emergency situations

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  • Facing an unsteady blood supply, blood centers have formed a partnership to prepare their areas for emergency situations
    The Blood Emergency Readiness Corps (BERC) is composed of seven blood centers from five states that have committed to collecting extra blood units on a rotating, "on call" schedule.
  • The initial blood center partners are the Oklahoma Blood Institute , California's Houchin Community Blood Bank , The Community Blood Center in Wisconsin, Central Pennsylvania Blood Bank and Texas' We Are Blood , South Texas Blood & Tissue Center and Carter BloodCare .
  • With BERC, partner blood centers will know exactly how much emergency blood is available and where it will come from."
  • The Community Blood Center is a member of America's Blood Centers (ABC) and Blood Centers of America (BCA) which are networks of independent community-based, not-for-profit blood centers supporting the blood needs for approximately 60% of the United States.For more information, please visit communityblood.org .

InVita Healthcare Technologies Appoints Todd Abner as Business Development Director for Blood and Plasma

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Thursday, February 18, 2021
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BALTIMORE, Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --InVitaHealthcareTechnologies,a leading software technology provider for complex medical environments,is pleased to announce Todd Abner as the company's new Business Development Director for Blood and Plasma.

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  • BALTIMORE, Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --InVitaHealthcareTechnologies,a leading software technology provider for complex medical environments,is pleased to announce Todd Abner as the company's new Business Development Director for Blood and Plasma.
  • Abner brings to InVita nearly 30 years of experience in blood and plasma center operations.
  • Prior to joining InVita, Abner held leadership roles in blood centers across the nation, including vice president of recruiting for Versiti and vice president of donor recruitment for Oklahoma Blood Institute.
  • "Todd Abner brings a unique balance of donor recruitment expertise and strong business development track record to InVita," said Todd Collins, President and CEO of InVita Healthcare Technologies.