Bonfils Blood Center

This Bonfils location makes me look forward to giving blood. I have been going here for several years now. They same people have worked there for years and they make the whole experience totally worth it. All the employees are great at what they do and I always feel like I’m in good hands!

I keep wanting to work with Bonfills, I really do. But it seems that every time I try to give blood it just turns into a big pain. They sent something out at work today about having times open during a blood drive here. I stopped by and the woman told me that if I would just stand there for 20 minutes they could get me in. I asked if I could at least start on the paperwork so that if things went quicker I could get in quicker. She said that I had to wait for an open slot to even verify that I was eligible! Other times they haven’t been able to take blood pressure over a long-​sleeve t-​shirt or other supposedly silly things that makes the whole experience unpleasant. I’ve given over five gallons in my life at different places and think that giving blood is important, but Bonfills seems bent on making it difficult. I wish we had Red Cross as an option. A friend of my works in the lab at a major local hospital and said that they quit using Bonfills because their blood is so much more expensive than other sources. It just makes me wonder what is going on there.

2012 Review #360:
I honestly want to give this a 3, but my inner Scrooge is telling me giving a blood donation service a 3 is bad taste, especially on Christmas.
I like that you don’t have to have an appointment, but having one certainly helps. I like that it tends to be fast, the employees are nice, and it only takes around 15 minutes. There are TV sets and reading materials, along with cookies and juice.
I do not like how ridiculously hard this place is to find. I really, really do not like that I get called by Bonfils about once a week, essentially pestering me to give blood. It went on for so long that I actually knew, and avoided, calls from their number. It was generally every couple of weeks, and unfortunately my schedule just doesn’t work out well with theirs, at least for right now. Unfortunately that explanation doesn’t keep them from calling incessantly, so, if I could go back in time I’d probably refrain from giving them my phone number.
I love that they do mobile blood drives, in fact the first couple of times I gave blood were at mobile drives. They generally come to at least one school I teach in throughout the year and they have their bus/​van/​blood-​mobile that goes around the city as well. I hope I never have to be on the receiving end of a Bonfils donation, but if so, I’ll know it came from a reliable and trusted Denver resource.

Bonfils is a wonderful Blood Center and I have been happily going to give my donation for years. I have been to many different blood centers and Bonfils is now the only one that I trust with my veins. They are professional to a T and I wouldn’t even consider going to anyone else.
Recently, I have been going to give automated donations, which allow me to donate platelets and plasma without losing any of my red cells. While this involves and extra 2 hours in the bed, the folks at Bonfils do an amazing job making you feel welcome.
My only problem is the fact that you’re still reading reviews for Bonfils at Unilocal and not donating blood at Bonfils. Call them now and save a life!

What’s to say? Give blood, save a life… unless you are a Jehovah’s Witness, and then it is better for people to die than to accept a blood transfusion.
No appt. necessary, they are kind, professional, and generally pretty quick. Donate blood… seriously… go now…

I popped in to do my good deed and donate blood. I didn’t have an appointment but it didn’t matter, they got me right in. Everyone was really nice and Amanda, my personal vampire, was cool. I was out of there in 30 minutes.
Today was «baby day» and all the donations are going to, you guessed it! Babies! I think that counts as a double-​good-​deed if I must say so myself.
One star off because there are needles and blood involved.