In Partnership with Our Community

In congruence with our mission of saving and enhancing lives and our organizational values, Bonfils’ senior management continually strives to foster the trust and confidence of our community, our healthcare clients and our employees; achieve financial stability and thereby drive long-term success; and aggressively and rationally implement new technologies and policies that best support the patients of Colorado.

There are numerous examples of our commitment to these goals. Firstly, in an effort to provide valuable support to our partners, our Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, Dr. Kevin Land, offered his transfusion medicine expertise to University of Colorado Hospital while they fill a vacant position. Additionally, the sale of Laboratories at Bonfils and lease of our former administration building freed up resources to maintain product pricing for clients along with other normal capital investment needs. Our TRALI risk reduction strategies and study of emerging infectious diseases keep us at the forefront of industry standards to ensure optimal patient transfusion outcomes.

Other positive advancements include the successful launch of ISBT 128 labeling earlier this month in advance of AABB’s May 1, 2008 deadline; our contribution to national Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi, the infectious cause of Chagas disease) epidemiology knowledge through our participation in a multi-center study evaluating the policy implications of screening blood donors for serological evidence of T cruzi infection in the U.S. and other vast research and development projects. But, for all the things we are managing well, we realize that we will continually have new challenges to overcome.

In the short term, those of us in the Denver Metro Area are preparing for the upcoming Democratic National Convention. We estimate a need to increase inventory by 20 percent in the weeks leading up to the convention. Plans are being put in place to ensure all patients’ blood needs are met although collection efforts will be disrupted in the downtown and surrounding areas. Long-term projects include beginning vendor selection to implement an electronic donor card, modernizing our laboratories to further improve efficiencies and technologies and initiating product management partnerships with our healthcare clients.

Throughout the ebbs and flows of achievements and challenges, our continued focus to goals attainment and your continued collaboration, trust and confidence will advance healthcare to a higher level of excellence.

Thomas C. Puckett

President & CEO

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