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AHA, AMA, ANA Joint Statement On Blood Shortages

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Iowa Nurses Association

The COVID-19 pandemic poses ongoing challenges to organizations that have bolstered our blood supply for many years. We now face a blood supply crisis that the American Red Cross call the worst blood shortage in over a decade. This severity and duration of the shortage could significantly jeopardize the ability of health care providers to meet the urgent needs of patients and communities. 

The American Hospital Association (AHA), American Medical Association (AMA)and American Nurses Association (ANA), urge everyone who can donate blood, to do so.

To read the entire statement, click here.