For the City Times

Event marks new relationship with Ascension St. Michael’s Hospital

STEVENS POINT – The Community Blood Center (CBC), a local non-profit organization supplying life-saving blood and plasma to hospitals in Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, is hosting a ribbon-cutting at Ascension St. Michael’s Hospital in Stevens Point on Feb. 1 at 11 a.m. in conference rooms six and seven.

The ribbon-cutting marks a new relationship between The Community Blood Center and Ascension St. Michael’s Hospital.

The Portage County Business Council Ambassadors, Stevens Point Mayor Mike Wiza, and Ascension Regional Director of Laboratory Services, Ron Purkapile will also be in attendance at the ribbon-cutting to celebrate the new relationship between CBC and Ascension St. Michael’s Hospital.

In conjunction with the ribbon-cutting, CBC will also be hosting its first blood donation drive kick-off event from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St. Michael’s Hospital. The community is invited to participate. All presenting donors will receive a free long-sleeve T-shirt.

“We are excited to become part of the Stevens Point community and thankful to Ascension St. Michael’s Hospital for their  support  in serving patients in need,” John Hagins, president and CEO of The Community Blood Center, said. “Expanding into central Wisconsin underscores our commitment to our mission to ‘Connect Lives, Share Life,’ and is a responsibility that we welcome and take seriously.”

This new relationship means patients in the Stevens Point area will have the benefit of a dependable blood supply from a local organization that hosts more than 100 mobile blood drives monthly. Additionally, CBC has walk-in donation locations in Appleton, Oshkosh, Little Chute, and Woodruff, Wisconsin.

For more information on The Community Blood Center, or to learn how you can donate blood or plasma, visit communityblood.org  or call (800) 280-4102.