Little Chute, Wisconsin

The Community Blood Center (Appleton, WI) to Roll out biolog-id’s Technology to Support Platelet Lifecycle Management

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Monday, November 8, 2021
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Committed to providing the highest safety and quality blood products, The Community Blood Center will deploy biolog-ids technology to further improve platelet manufacturing, documentation, and inventory availability.

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  • Committed to providing the highest safety and quality blood products, The Community Blood Center will deploy biolog-ids technology to further improve platelet manufacturing, documentation, and inventory availability.
  • Biolog-ids platelet lifecycle management solution enhances operational excellence by optimizing throughout, streamlining documentation, and improving visibility to current and future inventory.
  • We are excited to have The Community Blood Center join the growing family of innovative blood centers who trust our solution, said Amit Mayer, Chief Innovation Officer at biolog-id.
  • The Community Blood Center is a member of Americas 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.

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.

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 .