FACT Announces New Accreditations;
Accredited Facilities Now Total 132

Three blood and marrow transplant facilities earned accreditation and 14 others received accreditation renewals during the three months ending in June, according to the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT).

In addition, two cord blood banks were granted NetCord/FACT accreditation.

FACT is a non-profit voluntary foundation for standard-setting, self-assessment, inspection and accreditation in all phases of hematopoietic collection, processing and transplantation.  It is jointly sponsored by ASBMT and the International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT).

The accreditation actions were:

NEW ACCREDITATIONS

Allogeneic and autologous marrow and peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation, including collection and laboratory processing:

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Program, Chapel Hill, N.C.
  Program Director: Thomas Shea, MD

Autologous peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation, including collection and laboratory processing:

• St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center, St. Vincent’s Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York, N.Y.
  Program Director: Sundar Jagannath, MD

Autologous peripheral blood laboratory processing:

• Cryopresevation Laboratory, Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Berkeley, Calif.
  Program Director: Jeffrey Wolf, MD

ACCREDITATION RENEWALS

Allogeneic and autologous marrow and peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation, including collection and laboratory processing:

• Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
  Program Director: Edward Agura, MD
  
  
• Childrens Hospital at Los Angeles Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Program, Los Angeles, Calif.
  Program Director:  Neena Kapoor, MD
  
  
• City of Hope Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Program, Duarte, Calif.
  Program Director: Stephen Forman, MD
  
  
• Ottawa Hospital Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Ontario, Canada
  Program Director: Lothar Huebsch, MD
  
  
• The Johns Hopkins Bone Marrow Transplantation Program, Baltimore, Md.
  Program Director: Richard Jones, MD
  
  
• The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Miss.
  Program Director: Joe Files, MD
  
  
• Texas Transplant Institute, San Antonio, Texas
  Program Director: C. Fred LeMaistre, MD
  
  
• UT Blood and Marrow Transplant Center, Memphis, Tenn.
  Program Director: Donna Przepiorka, MD, PhD
  
  
• University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago Stem Cell and Bone Marrow Transplant Program, Chicago, Ill.
  Program Director: David Peace, MD
  
  
• West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc., Blood and Marrow Transplant and Hematologic Malignancy Program, Morgantown, W.V.
  Program Director: Solveig Ericson, MD, PhD

Allogeneic and autologous peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation, including collection and laboratory processing:

• Northwestern Memorial Hospital Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Program, Chicago, Ill.
  Program Director: Jayesh Mehta, MD

Autologous peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation, including collection and laboratory processing:

• Autologous Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplant Program Oncology Specialties, PC, of Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Huntsville, Ala.
  Program Director: John Waples, MD

Allogeneic and autologous marrow and peripheral blood progenitor cell processing:

• Blood Systems Laboratories Stem Cell Processing Laboratory, Tempe, Ariz.
  Program Director:  Thomas Wiltbank, MD

Allogeneic & autologous peripheral blood progenitor cell collection and laboratory processing:

• Jackson Memorial Hospital Transfusion Medicine Services, Miami, Fla.
  Program Director: Sherry Shariatmader, MD

CORD BLOOD BANK ACCREDITATIONS

Cord blood collection, processing, testing, banking, selection and release:

• Barcelona Cord Blood Bank, Barcelona, Spain
  Program Director: Joan Garcia, MD, PhD
  
  
• Besancon Cord Blood Bank of the Establissement Francais du Sang, Besancon, France
  Program Director: Valerie Lapierre, MD

Currently there are 132 accredited blood and marrow transplant facilities, and 96 additional facilities are in various stages of application and inspection.   Seven cord blood banks have NetCord/FACT accreditation, and 32 additional banks in 13 countries have applied for accreditation.

For a complete list of accredited facilities and additional information about FACT accreditation, visit the FACT Web site.