American Red Cross Chapter Facilities

Red Cross Chapters in the United States The American Red Cross is a humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief and education inside the United States. In addition to domestic disaster relief, the American Red Cross offers compassionate services in five other areas: community services that help the needy; support and comfort for military members and their families; the collection, processing and distribution of lifesaving blood and blood products; educational programs that promote health and safety; and international relief and development programs. The Red Cross is Governed by volunteers and supported by community donations. This dataset contains chapter facilities operated by the American Red Cross. In cases where a chapter does not exist in a service area, local offices that act as a chapter are included. Branch offices, service centers, blood drawing events/location, temporary disaster relief centers, blood mobiles and personal homes are intended to be excluded from this dataset, but a few may be included. Non license restricted data for Q407 processing has been added from the following states: Florida, Kansas, Ohio and Washington. All data is non license restricted data. At the request of NGA, text fields in this dataset have been set to all upper case to facilitate consistent database engine search results. At the request of NGA, all diacritics (e.g. the German umlaut or the Spanish tilde) have been replaced with their closest equivalent English character to facilitate use with database systems that may not support diacritics. The currentness of this dataset is indicated by the [CONTDATE] attribute. Based upon this attribute, the oldest record dates from 07/11/2007 and the newest record dates from 11/08/2007. This layer is no longer being updated. Please be aware that the data currency is only relevant up to its final update date. Consider accessing select updated features types at https://viewer.nationalmap.gov/services/ for services or https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html?prefix=StagedProducts/Struct/National/GDB/ for geodatabase download. Homeland Security Use cases describe how the data may be used, and help define and clarify requirements. 1) A disaster or health emergency has struck, or is predicted for, a locality and resources need to be summoned to respond. 2) An assessment as to the adequacy of the total capacity to handle emergency medical care in a given area needs to be made as part of a disaster mitigation plan.