AABB Accreditation

Established in 1947, the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) is an international association of blood banks, including hospital and community blood centers, transfusion and transplantation services and individuals involved in activities related to transfusion and transplantation medicine.

The AABB supports high standards of medical, technical and administrative performance, scientific investigation and clinical application and education.

The mission of the AABB is to establish and promote the highest standard of care for patients and donors in all aspects of blood banking ranging from transfusion medicine (hematopoietic, cellular and gene therapies) to tissue transplantation.

The AABB seeks the development of national and/or regional standards and the development of mechanisms for assessing compliance with those standards.

In 1991, the AABB published its first Standards for Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells, which covers the collection, processing and transplantation of marrow, peripheral blood, and umbilical cord blood progenitor cells.

The AABB is developing Model Standards for Blood Banking that incorporates blood-banking terminology and are compatible with the universally accepted ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 9000 standards. These Model Standards contain both Core Standards, which are generic requirements that can be universally applied, and Regional Standards, which are specific requirements that are based on the sophistication of blood banking and transfusion medicine for a particular geographic region or county.

The AABB is hopeful that these Model Standards will be a template that can be used as the foundation for an assessment program in any region of the world.

The AABB Accreditation Program assesses the quality and operational systems in place within a facility. This independent assessment of a facility’s operations helps the facility to prepare for other inspections and serves as a valuable tool to improve both compliance and operations. Accreditation is granted for collection, processing, testing, distribution, and administration of blood and blood components; hematopoietic progenitor cell activities; cord blood activities; preoperative activities; parentage testing activities; immunohematology reference laboratories and SBB schools

A blood bank achieving AABB accreditation would therefore be regarded as having passed the standards that the AABB are seeking. In doing so, the blood bank shows that the bank is a safe place to store and test blood.

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