Fact Sheet

Mission:

In partnership with our community, Bonfils Blood Center saves and enhances lives.

Vision:

As a premier, community-focused blood center, we advance healthcare to a higher level of excellence.

• For more than 65 years Bonfils Blood Center has supported the community blood supply and has played an instrumental role in the lives of patients in need throughout Colorado and beyond.
• In 1989 Bonfils established the Colorado Marrow Donor Program (CMDP) - the local hub for the National Marrow Donor Registry, which to date, has added more than 75,000 donors to the national registry and is a leader in coordinating donor matches for patients in need.
• Bonfils Blood Center needs thousands of people to donate blood each week to meet the needs of Colorado's patients and to maintain a state of blood supply readiness to support any unforeseen events.
• Bonfils provides blood and blood products to nearly 200 hospitals and healthcare facilities across Colorado and beyond.
• Currently, four percent of Colorado's population generously donates blood.
• The need for blood is constant. Red blood cells are usable for only 42 days.
• Every two seconds, someone in the United States receives a transfusion of donated blood.
• One whole blood donation can help up to three patients.
• All blood types are needed; often, the most common blood types are the most frequently transfused.
• Donating blood is safe. A person cannot contract HIV/AIDS or any other disease from donating blood. Sterile, disposable needles and supplies are used once and are safely discarded after each donation.
• Whole blood can be donated every two months, up to six times a year.
• Blood donation is one of the easiest ways to volunteer, with each whole blood donation lasting less than an hour.