title: Don't let blood transfusion services bleed your budget dry.
abstract: Get control of blood services and save $558,000 or more. Health care facilities in several markets are tapping into new programs and centralized services offered by blood centers and the American Red Cross to rein in spiralling costs. Find out how shared blood services and computerized cross-matching are saving big bucks and cutting out wasted blood products.
mesh_terms: D001771:Blood Banks / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D002017:Budgets; D017046:Cost Savings; D004465:Economic Competition; D017721:Hospital Costs; D006755:Hospital Shared Services / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D017146:Models, Organizational; D012040:Regional Health Planning; D014481:United States