Brattleboro Memorial Hospital (BMH) is a not-for-profit hospital that provides high quality inpatient, outpatient, and ambulatory services for the communities in the tri-state area of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.

The purpose behind National Blood Donor Month is to honor voluntary blood donors and to encourage more people to give blood during a time of year (January) that is often marked by shortages of donated blood.

Human blood is an essential medicine, and there’s no substitute for it. Consider these facts:

• Someone in the U.S. needs blood every two seconds.
• More than 29,000 units of red blood cells are used in the U.S. every day.
• One in 7 hospital patients needs donated blood.
• If one percent more Americans were to donate blood, we would eliminate blood shortages!

Follow this link for information about blood drives taking place in Brattleboro during the month of January.