Emergency Services

Our emergency services are available at Mile Bluff Medical Center in Mauston.

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Emergency Care Services

Mile Bluff's emergency care is available for serious, life-threatening situations, such as severe illness, serious injury, and any sudden change in a person's health condition that requires immediate intervention.

Our doctors are board-certified in emergency medicine; and are available 24 hours a day.

If you experience the following, you should come to the Emergency Department:

• Broken bones
• Chest pains or pressure
• Difficulty breathing
• Head trauma/injuries
• Major injuries/accidents
• Severe abdominal pain
• Stroke
• Sudden dizziness
• Trouble seeing
• Uncontrollable bleeding

SANE Program

To further meet the needs of local individuals impacted by sexual violence, Mile Bluff’s Emergency Department has sexual assault nurse examiners (SANE) available in Mauston.

The role of a SANE includes evaluating and treating patients with a holistic approach. These nurses are specially trained to provide culturally-sensitive, developmentally-appropriate, trauma-informed, patient-specific evaluation and treatment. They gather medical history, as well as a history of the assault, with a proper understanding of the medical and legal consequences of both. It is a very specialized role that is unfortunately needed far too often.

Anyone who experiences a sexual assault can come immediately and directly to Mile Bluff’s Emergency Department. The staff is trained to be mindful of both the immediate and the long-term impacts of sexual violence. Individuals will be cared for with dignity, confidentiality and excellence. If you would like more information about the SANE program, please contact the department at 608-847-6161.

At Mile Bluff, emergency patients are seen in order of the severity of their condition. If you are waiting, and see other patients get called back for treatment ahead of you, it may be due to their condition. The staff will keep you informed of when you will be taken in for treatment.