They also train medical laboratory personnel in all aspects of blood donor center operations.

When necessary, blood may be acquired from civilian blood donor centers.

Those interested in hosting a blood drive can contact the local blood donor center's recruiter.

Recruiters can also assist in scheduling times for groups of donors to give blood at the blood donor center.

Checks of all blood received from blood donor centers revealed an error rate of approximately 3 percent.

There are more than 20 ASBP blood donor centers worldwide.

Each Surgeon General allocates blood collection quotas to blood donor centers under his/her command.

In addition to whole blood donation, some blood donor centers offer platelet apheresis donation.

Blood donor centers are generally located on or near an Army, Navy or Air Force bases.

The ASBP operates more than 20 blood donor centers in the U.S. and around the world.

The blood donor center, also under the supervision of a physician who may be a Transfusion Medicine specialist, is the facility that collects and processes blood products.

With locations throughout the U.S., one in Germany and one in Japan, the blood donor centers are the key to the success of the military blood program.

Each blood donor center is responsible for soliciting donors, drawing blood, performing initial testing, and shipping the blood to the ASWBPLs.

In order to maximize the military blood donor base available to the ASBP, blood drives are scheduled and conducted at blood donor center locations throughout the year.

The brick university was so close we could have walked it, the Regional Forensic Center across the street from a tire store and the Life Blood Donor Center.

Blood donor centers are given preferential access to donors on installations without blood donor centers whenever the donor base is not maximized.

Each blood donor center collects blood from donors at their locations, then processes, stores and ships the blood and blood products for local use and support of worldwide military operations.

Subsequent liquid blood supplies come from the blood donor centers in the continental U.S. and are shipped via the ASWBPLs and Blood Transshipment Centers.

Today's Armed Services Blood Program: Currently, the ASBP operates more than 20 blood donor centers and 81 transfusion centers in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

Dr. Kerndt's team found only a small number of donors infected with the parasite, but concluded that "there is a small but significant risk of transfusion-related Chagas' disease at blood donor centers in the United States."

The hospital set up a free walk-in Crisis Counseling Center, staffed by the hospital's psychiatrists and therapists and the blood donor center was expanded to accommodate the thousands of people who came to the hospital to give blood.

Johnson & Johnson currently makes products that screen for viruses and test for blood type at blood donor centers, as well as tests for home use, including One Touch for diabetes, Fact Plus for pregnancy and Advanced Care for cholesterol.

On a continuous basis, the blood donor centers are also assigned blood collection and shipment quotas and are asked to provide blood products to the Armed Services Whole Blood Processing Laboratory (ASWBL) to meet worldwide military requirements.

Today, the ASBP consists of approximately 81 blood banks and blood donor centers (see Blood Donor Centers) worldwide; including 22 Food and Drug Administration licensed blood donor centers.

Joint Services blood donor centers known as Armed Services Blood Bank Centers or Army, Air Force or Navy Blood Donor Centers (see Blood Donor Centers) send blood collected at their sites to ASWBPLs.