Blood and Organ Banks
Description
Establishments classified under this code specialize in the critical collection, processing, storage, and distribution of human blood, blood products, and donor organs. These facilities serve as essential hubs within the broader health care system, ensuring a reliable supply of life-saving materials for hospitals and emergency response teams. Typical operations involve rigorous screening, testing, and laboratory analysis of biological donors to verify safety and compatibility before products reach clinical settings. The industry supports both routine transfusions for medical treatments and emergency surgical interventions where time is critical. Operators primarily include specialized blood banks and regional organ repositories that often work in partnership with large hospital networks. While many functions occur within acute care hospitals, dedicated independent establishments manage specific aspects of procurement and distribution to maximize efficiency and regulatory compliance. The scale of these operations ranges from small local collection centers serving a single county to large centralized facilities distributing nationally. Their reach extends globally, with significant logistics networks required to transport temperature-sensitive items across states. This sector remains fundamental to public health security, maintaining strict adherence to federal regulations and accreditation standards to protect recipients from disease transmission while optimizing the utilization of scarce biological resources.
Hierarchy
| Code | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 62 | Health Care and Social Assistance 2-digit sector | The Sector as a Whole The Health Care and Social Assistance sector comprises establishments providing health care and social assistance for individuals. The sector includes both health care and social assistance because it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the boundaries of these two activities. The industries in this sector are arranged on a continuum starting with establishments providing medical care exclusively, continuing with those providing health care and social assistance, and finally finishing with those providing only social assistance. Establishments in this sector deliver services by trained professionals. All industries in the sector share this commonality of process, namely, labor inputs of health practitioners or social workers with the requisite expertise. Many of the industries in the sector are defined based on the educational degree held by the practitioners included in the industry. Excluded from this sector are yoga and aerobics instruction in Subsector 611, Educational Services, physical fitness facilities in Subsector 713, Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries, and personal fitness training services and non-medical diet and weight reducing centers in Subsector 812, Personal and Laundry Services. Although these can be viewed as health services, these services are not typically delivered by health practitioners. |
| 621 | Ambulatory Health Care Services 3-digit subsector | Industries in the Ambulatory Health Care Services subsector provide health care services directly or indirectly to ambulatory patients and do not usually provide inpatient services. Health practitioners in this subsector provide outpatient services, with the facilities and equipment not usually being the most significant part of the production process. |
| 6219 | Other Ambulatory Health Care Services 4-digit industry group | This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing ambulatory health care services (except offices of physicians, dentists, and other health practitioners; outpatient care centers; medical laboratories and diagnostic imaging centers; and home health care providers). |
| 62199 | All Other Ambulatory Health Care Services 5-digit NAICS industry | This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing ambulatory health care services (except offices of physicians, dentists, and other health practitioners; outpatient care centers; medical and diagnostic laboratories; home health care providers; and ambulances). Illustrative Examples: Blood donor stations Pacemaker monitoring services Blood or body organ banks Physical fitness evaluation services (except by offices of health practitioners) Health screening services (except by offices of health practitioners) Smoking cessation programs Hearing testing services (except by offices of audiologists) |
| 621991 | Blood and Organ Banks 6-digit U.S. detail | Establishments classified under this code specialize in the critical collection, processing, storage, and distribution of human blood, blood products, and donor organs. These facilities serve as essential hubs within the broader health care system, ensuring a reliable supply of life-saving materials for hospitals and emergency response teams. Typical operations involve rigorous screening, testing, and laboratory analysis of biological donors to verify safety and compatibility before products reach clinical settings. The industry supports both routine transfusions for medical treatments and emergency surgical interventions where time is critical. Operators primarily include specialized blood banks and regional organ repositories that often work in partnership with large hospital networks. While many functions occur within acute care hospitals, dedicated independent establishments manage specific aspects of procurement and distribution to maximize efficiency and regulatory compliance. The scale of these operations ranges from small local collection centers serving a single county to large centralized facilities distributing nationally. Their reach extends globally, with significant logistics networks required to transport temperature-sensitive items across states. This sector remains fundamental to public health security, maintaining strict adherence to federal regulations and accreditation standards to protect recipients from disease transmission while optimizing the utilization of scarce biological resources. |
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Classification References
- 01Establishments primarily engaged in providing courier and express delivery services for blood, blood products, and body organs without storage are classified in Industry 492110, Couriers and Express Delivery Services.
Index Items
Blood banks
Blood donor stations
Eye banks
Human egg or ova banks
Human embryo storage services
Organ banks, body
Organ donor centers, body
Placenta banks
Plasma collection services
Plasmapheresis centers
Sperm banks, human
How Item Can Help
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External Resources
Census.gov NAICS Detail
Official US Census Bureau definition and scope for NAICS 621991.
American Association of Blood Banks
The leading trade association for blood banking professionals in the United States.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration Blood Safety
Official FDA guidance and regulatory information on blood product safety and distribution.
National Marrow Donor Program
The U.S. government's primary registry facilitating stem cell and organ donation for transplants.
