The Blood Emergency Readiness Corps (known as "BERC" or the "BERC Program") consists of 38 U.S.-based community blood centers that work together to provide an emergency reserve of blood products to respond to a mass shooting or mass casualty event.
The program is administered by the Alliance for Community Transfusion Services (ACTS).
To date, the BERC reserve has responded to supply blood products needed as a result of the Collierville Kroger shooting (Collierville, TN), the 2021 Oxford High School shooting (Oxford Township, MI), the Tornado outbreak in the Mississippi Valley of December 10–11, 2021, the Robb Elementary School Shooting (Uvalde, TX) on May 14, 2022, the tornado outbreak sequence primarily impacting Perrytown, TX in the Texas Panhandle on June 15, 2023, the tornado outbreak in North Texas on May 26, 2024, the ransomware attack impacting the blood supply in the southeast U.S. on July 30, 2024, the flooding in southwest Florida as a result of Hurricane Debby on August 5, 2024, the blood needs as a result of Hurricane Milton making landfall in southwest Florida on October 9, 2024, and the New Orleans Terrorist Attack of January 1, 2025..[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] The following blood centers are participants in the program: