In partnership with our community, Bonfils Blood Center saves and enhances lives.
As a premier, community-focused blood center, we advance healthcare to a higher level of excellence.
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For 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.
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In 1989 Bonfils established the Colorado Marrow Donor Program (CMDP) - the local hub for the National Marrow Donor Registry, which to date, has added nearly 70,000 donors to the national registry and is a leader in coordinating donor matches for patients in need.
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The blood center includes two subsidiaries - its fundraising arm, Bonfils Blood Center Foundation and a high-tech application service provider, Hemo-Net.
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Bonfils Blood Center needs more than 4,000 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.
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Bonfils provides blood and blood products to more than 200 hospitals and healthcare facilities across Colorado and beyond.
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Currently, four percent of Colorado's population generously donates blood.
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The need for blood is constant. Red blood cells are usable for only 42 days.
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Bonfils efficiently uses more than 97 percent of donated blood.
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Every two seconds, someone in the United States receives a transfusion of donated blood.
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One whole blood donation can help up to three patients.
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All blood types are needed; often, the most common blood types are the most frequently transfused.
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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.
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Whole blood can be donated every two months, up to six times a year.
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Blood donation is one of the easiest ways to volunteer, with each whole blood donation lasting less than an hour.
