Blood Systems, the parent company of BioCareSD, has been selected by Arizona Business Magazine and BestCompaniesAZ as one of 40 winners of the 2015 Arizona’s Most Admired Companies Awards (MAC) and is featured in the September/October issue of the magazine.

Arizona’s Most Admired Companies are selected based on performance in the following areas: Workplace Culture, Leadership Excellence, Corporate and Social Responsibility, Customer Opinion and Innovation.

“This is the most comprehensive and most prestigious corporate awards program in Arizona. It recognizes the contributions and impact these ‘most admired companies’ bring to the state,” says Denise Gredler, Founder & CEO of BestCompaniesAZ and co-founder of the MAC program.

“Every day, I am proud of and inspired by the Blood Systems team,” says Dan Connor, Blood Systems President and CEO. “I am delighted that BestCompaniesAZ chose to honor my co-workers for their commitment to the donors, patients and communities we serve and for the way they live our values of respect, integrity, teamwork and excellence.”

Blood Systems—one of the nation’s oldest and largest non-profit community blood service providers—operates community blood centers serving more than 700 hospitals in 22 states,  BioCareSD’s biological products distribution services, a quality consulting group and the world-renowned transfusion medicine research institute,  Blood Systems Research Institute and is a partner in the operation of high-volume donor testing laboratories, Creative Testing Solutions.