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Donor Collection Hours: 

Mon-Fri., 8 am to 6:30 pm

Sat., 8 am to 11:30 am

Sun., 1 pm to 4:30 pm

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Monday-Friday 8 am to 5 pm

Closed most major holidays
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Click Here to read information on what to expect and things you should know before you prepare to donate.

Personal Benefits:
Under Medic's Individual Coverage plan, one donation a year exempts the donor and his or her IRS dependents from paying blood supplier processing fees anywhere in the country if a transfusion is needed. New members are covered except for pre-existing conditions. Depending on where you are, those fees could range from $100 to well over $500 for certain blood products. (Medic does not cover the hospital's transfusion charges.)

Company / Organization Benefits:
Under Medic's Group Plan, all members of a group and their IRS dependents (including those with pre-existing conditions) can receive a year of blood coverage if 30% of the members donate during a group's designated blood drive. A member donation 56 days before or 30 days after the group's blood drive will be counted. If the quota is not met, then only those who gave blood will receive Medic’s Blood Coverage.

Benefits For Others
After you have made your annual donation to cover your family, you may donate to obtain coverage for someone else.

Replacement program
If a patient who has used blood does not have Medic Blood Coverage, others may give blood to offset the cost of the blood and blood products used by the patient. These donations do not count for the donor’s own blood coverage. Donors must tell the Medic screener the name of the person they are making the replacement donation for.

What Is Blood Used For?

- Whole blood donations are divided into components. So, one donation can help up to 3 people.

-Transfusions - primarily red cells - are given to replace blood lost during surgery, from trauma or from internal bleeding from conditions such as aneurysms or ulcers.

- Blood components such as platelets are used to treat cancer patients debilitated by chemotherapy of their ability to replace their own blood cells.

- Components such as frozen plasma are used to treat patients with clotting deficiencies.

- So far, no substitute for any components of human blood has been licensed for use in the United States.

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