WASHINGTON — 911.gov announced $1 billion in new federal funding to advance life-saving, post-crash care. The funding includes 24 grants worth $50 million for prehospital blood transfusion programs.

The Frederick County Division of Fire and Rescue Services has a new system to make whole blood transfusions available at the scene of accidents or before going to the hospital. Whole blood is what ...

HUNTINGTON — More than 50 community members and Cabell County Emergency Medical Services (CCEMS) personnel donated 45 units of blood Tuesday during a blood drive at the Tri-State Fire Academy. Julia ...

Bobby Scott, operations manager and blood program administrator at Ambulance and Chair EMS, holds a unit of type O blood that is stored in a blood cooler in an ambulance. Ambulance and Chair EMS ...

CHARLESTON — West Virginia was the first state to implement comprehensive statewide protocols for administering whole blood on ambulances, an initiative that already has demonstrated effectiveness in ...

CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. — Cherokee County Fire & Emergency Services will now be able to give you a blood transfusion during medical emergencies before you ever get to the hospital. The county announced ...

A lack of blood supply has delayed the rollout of Three Rivers Ambulance Authority’s new blood administration program. Three Rivers Ambulance Authority will store blood in most supervisor vehicles for ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Monongalia County’s ‘Whole Blood Program’, which enables paramedics to give whole blood in the field to injured patients with severe bleeding, has taken off and changed the game of ...

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