year: 1 year: 28 year: 46 This is our 64th year of social responsibility. On Feb. 27, 1943, the doors of Belle Bonfils Memorial Blood Bank opened and history Growth for Bonfils over the past Therefore, we became Belle Bonfils Bonfils received approval to administer a another year was made. Dr. Osgood Philpott and philanthropist Helen G. Bonfils helped to 28 years occurred both physically Memorial Blood Center. Bonfils was no local office of the National Marrow Donor realize the Rocky Mountain Region’s need for blood services and led the founding of and philosophically. Not only did longer just a blood bank; our services Program in 1989, allowing us to help This is our 64th year of customer satisfaction. of successes Denver’s first community blood bank. However, Bonfils was not born of need alone, we repeatedly outgrow offices and were expanding, especially in the area of recruit and maintain records of persons 2007 but with a vision to aid the local community as well as the military forces fighting laboratories as our community support transfusion medicine and it was time for willing to donate bone marrow. This was overseas in World War II. This vision would carry on and reach across the state—across a monumental step for Bonfils and before This is 2007. increased, but in 1971 we realized that our name to reflect our growth. And the year: To Our Community: decades—to become an intricate and integral part of Colorado’s healthcare system. the name Belle Bonfils Memorial growing didn’t stop there. long, the results started to show. 64 Blood Bank no longer seemed to apply. We’ve made it all the way to year 64 and the cusp of our 65th anniversary enter Fulfilling a need to support troops fighting overseas and local patients in In our first year we registered 250 donors. celebration. As is our great tradition, Bonfils spent 2007 building upon the successes Two years after the initiation of the need of blood transfusions, Belle Bonfils Memorial Blood Bank opened to the of the past, ensuring that Colorado can count on our commitment to quality and year: Colorado Marrow Donor Program, public on Feb. 27, 1943 with much fanfare thanks to the dedication of several 5 continuous improvement. C influential doctors from the Denver Medical Society and a $10,000 donation history was made when more than 5,000 At present, we have more than 450 employees working in nine community donor from philanthropist Helen Bonfils. As we celebrate our 65th year of saving 1948 was a remarkable year. More than people joined the registry in support of two siblings who desperately needed centers and more than 3,000 yearly mobile blood drives. We provide blood and blood lives, we also reflect on the accomplishments that we realized over the last 64 5,000 whole blood transfusions were marrow donors. products to more than 200 healthcare facilities every day. Additionally, we collect years with the support of our community and our healthcare partners. given to approximately 1,950 patients and the number of whole blood transfusions approximately 200,000 units of blood annually and offer a variety of services to meet was doubling each year. This increasing the needs of our community. Since collecting 1,600 units of blood in our inaugural year of operation, lood demand led to the initiation of walking After a long heroic battle, Kendall, left, and Bonfils Blood Center now collects an average of 200,000 units of blood blood banks, which were set up in as many Taylor Atkinson succumbed to Fanconi’s B annually. Today, the blood center also supplies blood products and services anemia. To this day, the Atkinson family as 30 Rocky Mountain communities— to more than 200 hospitals and healthcare facilities and other blood centers. technicians took samples of blood from dedicates itself to finding a cure and finding january: Additionally, our commitment to social responsibility abounds with potential donors as far as 300 miles from donors to combat blood-related diseases. 11th longstanding partnerships with nearly 1,500 Colorado businesses, civic groups Denver, providing a large living reservoir year: report and faith-based organizations each year that support our mission of saving and of potential donors with known blood 52 The New Year Begins With enhancing lives by hosting blood drives. In our 65-year history more than 3 types. Our increased presence in the Appreciation for the Past community and our strides to enhance In 1995, Bonfils anticipated a need required to convert the 150,000 square- million blood donations have been collected and transfused for the benefit of January is National Blood Donor services led to Bonfils’ outgrowth of our for financial support and proactively foot commissary building on the former patients in need across Colorado and beyond. Month and began the New Year by onfils to the space and the beginning of construction implemented the Bonfils Blood Center Lowry Air Force Base into a modern honoring those who have dedicated of an entirely new building which we Foundation with the mission to raise blood center. Bonfils became the first B Last year, the blood center was successful in collecting nearly 200,000 units of themselves to Bonfils’ mission and would inhabit by 1951. money to fund the blood center’s business to relocate its operations to the blood from more than 102,000 generous blood donors. Those units provided efforts critical to saving and enhancing Lowry redevelopment district bringing values. This esteemed list of honorees 717 Yosemite Street | Denver, CO 80230 | 303.341.4000 | www.bonfils.org community nearly 244,000 life-saving transfusable products. Additionally, Bonfils’ lives. This foundation led the capital with it 280 employees dedicated to included multi-gallon blood donors, Colorado Marrow Donor Program facilitated 32 blood stem cell and 11 cord campaign to help raise the $6 million saving lives. volunteers, financial benefactors and blood matches to support patients suffering from blood-related diseases. The community partners at INVESCO program also added more than 2,500 people to the National Marrow Donor Field at Mile High. Additionally, Registry bringing the local total to more than 70,000 potential donors. donors heard from Patti Kaufmann, a local lymphoma survivor who took the opportunity to personally thank 2007 Financial support helped bring life to Bonfils and remains a key component blood and marrow donors for their year: to maintaining a safe, readily available and efficiently produced blood supply. 15 life-saving contributions. In 2007, Bonfils Blood Center Foundation received more than $1.5 million in our mission legacy gifts, financial donations and grants from individuals, corporations and Bonfils had the foresight over the years to become a founding member of several In partnership with our community, foundations. Those contributions directly supported the acquisition of a new bloodmobile, transfusion medicine research projects, community and donor industry-related associations. In 1958 Bonfils Blood Center: saves and the Texas Association of Blood Banks outreach initiatives and more. enhances lives. opened its doors to neighboring states including Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, january: 19th our vision These and many other accomplishments of 2007 do not stand alone, but New Mexico and Oklahoma to form year: have been built on the many years of kindness, dedication and loyalty of the the South Central Association of Blood 31 Our 9th 50-Gallon Donor As a premier, community-focused Colorado community. While this Report to the Community celebrates our Banks (SCABB). Arizona, Colorado : blood center, we advance healthcare proud past, it also sets the tone for a bright future. Together with the trust and Utah subsequently joined, forming In 1974, Bonfils Blood For nearly 45 years, Ned Habich to a higher level of excellence. and confidence from our community and blood donors we can live up to our a union of nine states whose mission Center took an important supported his community by giving blood mission of saving and enhancing lives and ensure our place in Colorado’s remains to promote, foster and support step in strengthening year: and gave his 400th pint with Bonfils. At history for another 65 years. the exchange of ideas and dissemination Colorado’s sense of 59 the urging of his mother, Ned’s blood community by making the donations began in 1963 during his high of information related to blood banking, Many more milestones presented themselves decision to discontinue school years in Miami, Ariz., where he transfusion medicine and related technical to Bonfils in 2002. We collected more blood paying blood donors for donated at the blood drive that came Sincerely, methodology. Prior to enlisting in than ever before in our history filling their contributions. through town three to four times a SCABB, Bonfils joined AABB (formerly blood requests for more than 115 hospitals By accepting blood year—a blood drive for which his mother known as American Association of Blood and healthcare facilities. Our weekly goal donations on a volunteer volunteered. Ned continued his blood Banks) in 1947. Additionally, the blood rose to 4,000 donations and we opened the basis we worked to inspire donation habit even as he moved around center was among the first community- Westminster Community Donor Center, Thomas C. Puckett the true purpose of giving the West. When Ned moved to Colorado When asked why he continues to donate based blood centers to join America’s our ninth fixed-site location in the state. President and CEO blood: to help others in 1990 he began donating with Bonfils after all these years, Ned said, “I always felt Blood Centers when it was created in 1962. As an added bonus and testament to in the community by Blood Center.