Donate blood and save a life with Mile Bluff Medical Center!

Throughout the year, Mile Bluff Medical Center hosts a number of community blood drives.  The events are a partnership between the medical center and the Blood Center of Wisconsin - the sole supplier of blood products to Mile Bluff.  

Join your friends, family, co-workers and neighbors, and do your part to help save lives by coming to the next blood drive at Mile Bluff.  The event is scheduled for Monday, October 19 from 9 am to 2 pm.

Each donation made at Mile Bluff could touch the lives of up to three people in the community.   At this drive, you will have the option to make a whole blood donation (which is made up of red blood cells, platelets, plasma and white blood cells), or you can give a dual red or platelet-only donation.  While a whole blood donation will yield red blood cells and platelets, it would take two whole blood donations to equal the same amount of red blood cells that can be found in a single dual red cell donation.  It would take six units of whole blood to equal the same amount of platelets that are in a single platelet-only donation.

You can help someone in need.  Make a blood donation on October 19 during the drive at Mile Bluff Medical Center in Mauston.  To reserve your spot, call the Blood Center of Wisconsin at 1-877-232-4376 or log-on to www.bcw.edu/milebluff to make an appointment. Walk-ins are welcome.

Requirements for being a blood donor:

*  Must be 17 years or older (16-year-olds can donate with parental consent)

*  Must weigh at least 110 pounds

*  Should be free of any cold, flu or allergy symptoms the day of donation

*  Must not have had hepatitis after age 11

*  Should not have any risk factors associated with HIV or AIDS

Tips to remember the day you donate:

*  Bring along a photo ID such as a driver’s license.

*  Drink plenty of fluids prior to and following your donation.

*  Avoid strenuous physical exercise until the day following your donation.