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Article: Red Cross plans revamp of regional blood centers
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 20, 1991
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WASHINGTON The American Red Cross will shut down in sequence its
53 regional blood centers to install a new computer system and
implement new blood-testing measures in an attempt to solve
persistent safety and management problems.
The Red Cross board of directors Sunday unanimously agreed to
the plan, which it is estimated will cost $100 million and next year
will result in regional Red Cross blood banks being closed on a
rotating basis for several weeks each. Red Cross President Elizabeth
H. Dole called the plan a "complete transformation of the Red Cross
blood program to address the problem of AIDS in the blood supply."
Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.), House Energy and Commerce ...