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Bill to require access to autologous and directed blood donations faces opposition from transfusion experts
Summary
House Bill 1456 would require that blood collection sites and tissue banks accommodate autologous (self-donated) and directed donations for patients. Sponsor said the intent is to expand access; the American Red Cross and a transfusion medicine physician warned the requirement could strain blood-supply safety and logistics.
House Bill 1456 would establish requirements for autologous and directed blood donations and transfusions to ensure patients who want to use self-donated blood for a planned procedure can access it through non‑hospital collection sites.
Colin Michael Rolfes, an intern presenting for Delegate Rick Metzger, told the committee that the bill is intended to make it easier for patients to donate blood for use in their own procedures and to ensure blood‑collection sites outside hospitals could accommodate those orders. “From my understanding of this bill it is to give people the access to donate autologous blood for their own…
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