The Laboratory is actively  involved in providing you with a safe environment.  We encourage active involvement of patients and their  families in the patients care.

Some things currently being done for your safety include:

¨ Use of 2 patient identifiers (such as name and date of  birth) whenever a lab sample  is collected.  These samples are immediately labeled with the 2 identifiers to maintain the sample’s identity throughout the entire testing process.

¨ Use of a standardized list of acceptable abbreviations so everyone is aware of exactly what the abbreviation stands for.

It is important that we maintain an ample blood supply in our community, and that can only be done with BloodCenter of Wisconsin, as they supply 100% of the blood to every community hospital in our area. The blood you donate will save lives right here in your community.

Patients are counting on receiving this blood to help them survive or heal. Let's all participate and make each blood drive a success for all of us. If you haven't signed up yet, please consider doing so. You'll be doing more good than you know. 

**We want to offer a special "thank you" to the following local businesses who donate food for our Blood Drives :

- Foremost Farms USA for donating cheese.
- Dairy Queen - Richland Center for donating Dilly Bars.

Blood Drives Scheduled in 2010:

February 18, 2010    
1pm – 6pm

May 6, 2010     
11am – 4 pm

July 7, 2010         
10 am - 3pm

September 2, 2010  
1pm – 6pm

November 4, 2010

1pm - 6pm

December 30, 2010
1pm – 6pm