..... in honor of all mothers & women.
Giving life to mothers & women through blood donation.
..... in honor of all mothers & women.
Giving life to mothers & women through blood donation.
2023 DONATE FOR MOTHERS' MAY RESULTS across CO, SD, and WY:
2022 American Blood Centers Outstanding Blood Drive of the Year
2022 American Blood Centers Outstanding Blood Drive of the Year
- 3843 lives impacted by 1281 Blood donations from 41 blood drives at 32 different hospital partners (all Denver hospital systems) and 7 community partners.
- 1,000+ giveaway items for mobile blood drives and CO/WY/RC donation centers
- 1000+ Donate for Mothers / Vitalant ‘In Honor Of’ postcards
- 500+ of women’s health advocacy group info brochures and clinician materials
- 10+ survivors sharing their pregnancy-related complications stories
- 2 donated gift baskets for CO first time and repeat donors
- 10+ Maternal Health Advocacy Partners
- Amniotic Fluid Embolism Foundation
- Colorado Accreta Survivors
- National Accreta Survivors
- Heroes for Moms
- UCHealth Anschutz Medical Students
- Colorado Mountain College Nursing students
- Rapid City Boys Club
- A vast network of OB physicians & nurses, Labor & Delivery departments, Mother & Baby Units and Maternal Fetal Medicine groups
2022 American Blood Centers Outstanding Blood Drive of the Year
2022 American Blood Centers Outstanding Blood Drive of the Year
2022 American Blood Centers Outstanding Blood Drive of the Year
Our Mission
2022 American Blood Centers Outstanding Blood Drive of the Year
Our Mission
Donate for Mothers is a Colorado-born blood donation campaign, started in recognition of a mission close to all our hearts: delivering life to mothers & women with pregnancy complications through blood donations.
Our Team
American Blood Centers National award: 2022 Outstanding Blood Drive of the Year
Our Mission
We are women’s advocates: patients, families, & providers affected by pregnancy-related complications. Our stories connect deeply with this mission and have spurred us to organize & outreach to enhance blood donations.
Hear powerful stories from Mothers--and how blood donation kept them safe!!
American Blood Centers National award: 2022 Outstanding Blood Drive of the Year
American Blood Centers National award: 2022 Outstanding Blood Drive of the Year
D4M Awareness spreading:
-Trish on Ch.4, News, 5/14/2023
- Vy on Ch. 7, Everyday Hero, 5/14/2023
- Nicole on Ch. 11, CO Springs, 5/12/2023
-Trish on Ch. 9, CO & Co. 5/4/2023
- Kate S. on Ch. 31, Great Day CO, 4/28/2023
-Dani & Kate R. on CBS4 TV News, 9/7/2020
-Liz Lambert of Vitalant & Dr. Caroline Hedges at UC Health blood drive in CO Springs 9/22/20
American Blood Centers National award: 2022 Outstanding Blood Drive of the Year
American Blood Centers National award: 2022 Outstanding Blood Drive of the Year
American Blood Centers National award: 2022 Outstanding Blood Drive of the Year
Kristin's story
Kristin's story
Kristin's story
Thank You:
The day your baby is born should be one of the best days of your life. Now imagine having absolutely no memory of that special day. Sadly, this is my story during the birth of my daughter Emily. My water broke at home, and I woke up 48 hours later in the ICU asking ‘Why are all of these people in my bedroom?’ I needed 26 units of blood during a massive hemorrhage to survive. Childbirth stories like mine and fellow blood recipients (highlight in the media stories) Nicole, Trish and Kate are more common that you many realize. One in every 83 deliveries require a blood transfusion in the U.S.
I am so grateful to our committee of physicians, nurses, medical students and patient survivors for being inspired to motivate and to share their experiences. Collectively, our “lived experiences” are what makes Donate for Mothers so special. I am equally proud of the entire Mountain Division Vitalant team for embracing the Donate for Mothers mission throughout the month of May. Thank you for giving of your time and passion towards this year’s D4M campaign.
Thank you,
Kristin
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Our Wonderful Partners!
OUR WONDERFUL PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS
OUR WONDERFUL PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS
OUR WONDERFUL PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS
vitalant.org
Vitalant, formerly Bonfils, is one of the nation’s oldest and largest nonprofit community blood service providers, supplies comprehensive transfusion medicine services to nearly 1,000 hospitals and health care partners for patients in need across 40 states.
Colorado Accreta Survivors
OUR WONDERFUL PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS
OUR WONDERFUL PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS
https://www.facebook.com/coloradoaccretasurvivors
Colorado Accreta Survivors is working to spread awareness of placenta accreta to our local Colorado communities.
Heroes for Moms
OUR WONDERFUL PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS
National Accreta Foundation
Heroes for Moms is a national platform for blood drive events focused on saving the lives of moms who need blood to survive childbirth.
National Accreta Foundation
Amniotic Fluid Embolism Foundation
National Accreta Foundation
https://www.preventaccreta.org
Their mission: Eliminating preventable maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity attributable to placenta accreta.
Amniotic Fluid Embolism Foundation
Amniotic Fluid Embolism Foundation
Amniotic Fluid Embolism Foundation
The AFE Foundation is the only organization in the world dedicated to AFE and the research to prevent it.
💞 Thank you Blood Donors & Drive Volunteers 💞
September 2020 Labor of Love Drive Results
-every ONE blood donation helps as many as THREE lives!
GRAND TOTAL:
💞 337 donations
💞 90 first time donors
💞 impacting as many as 1011 lives! ll
Kaiser Baseline Medical Office 9/3/20
❣26 whole blood donations
❣20 scheduled blood donations, 8 walk ins
❣100% filled appts, 10 first time Donors
❣37% above goal, 2 double units!!
❣❣❣helping 70 lives!
🙌 Thank you CO Accreta Survivors Dani & Kate for teaming up & their awesome CBS4 TV interview (see above link), Jenna- Vitalant drive coordinator & patient survivor, and Whitney & Drs. Tracy Anderson & Vy Rossi (OBGYNs) for representing D4M.
SCL Good Samaritan Hospital 9/9/20
❣40 blood donations
❣32 scheduled donations, 12 walk ins
❣94% filled appts, 11 first time Donors
💞 to the many GS employees who paused their essential work to be Essential donors: Mary (EVS- walking in to hit her 5th gallon mark), Tonya & Laura (Director & Managers of L&D), and many doctors!
❣67% above goal, 4 double units!!
❣❣❣helping as many as 104 lives---and not just adults, but each donation can help 10 babies!
💞 Dr. Rossi volunteers to honor the struggling mothers who needed blood to sustain them in childbirth. She even had a mother and her premature baby boy both needing blood at the same time earlier this week.
🙌 Thank you Jenna- Vitalant drive coordinator & patient survivor, Stacey-teacher/survivor, Dr. Marci Peralto-OBGYN/survivor, & Dr. Vy Rossi for representing D4M.
SCL Lutheran 9/14/20
❣ 19 whole blood donations
❣21 scheduled a blood donation, 1 walk in
❣ One donor saw Kate & Dani's news story (see their interview link above on CBS4) was inspired to donate for D4M!
❣87% filled appts, 1 first time Donor
❣ 17% above goal
❣❣❣helping as many as 57 lives!
🙌 Thank you: Whitney for representing D4M again.
Boulder Community Hospital 9/14/20
❣29 whole blood donations
❣29 scheduled blood donations, 1 walk in
❣100% filled appts, 5 first time Donors
❣ 53% above goal, 2 double units!
❣❣❣helping 79 lives!
💞 3 employees (nurses & administration) felt compelled to donate because they too received blood for pregnancy hemorrhages!
💞 2 Labor & Delivery nurses donated.
🙌 Thank you Jenna- Vitalant drive coordinator/patient survivor, & Dr. Vy Rossi for representing D4M!
National Jewish Hospital 9/17/20
❣ 71 blood donations, 24 first time Donors!!
❣ 77 scheduled,2 walk ins
❣ 40% above average collections!
❣❣❣helping as many as 191 lives!
💞 This was the MOST successful blood drive in 10yrs at internationally acclaimed National Jewish!!
🙌 Thank you Dr. Kathleen Doyle (OBGYN), Dr. Kevin Brown (Chair of Medicine), & Whitney for rallying & representing for D4M.
UCH Memorial 9/22/20
❣14 blood donations
❣ 9 scheduled blood donations, 11 walk ins
❣ 5 first time Donors
❣❣❣helping as many as 37 lives!
💞 Dr. Hedges felt the importance of supporting this D4M drive, after transfusing a pregnant patient just this week.
💞 Nurse & AFE survivor came to donate!
🙌 Thank you Gina & Dr. Caroline Hedges for representing D4M.
🙌 Liz & Dr. Hedges were interviewed by KOAA NBC 5 news at the drive, which aired 9/23/20.
Lily's Day: Colorado Springs Donation Center
❣ 5 family Donors came in to support Lily & her history of blood transfusion after placenta accreta.
🙌 Thank you Lily for this special family drive!
UCH Memorial 9/24/20
❣ 15 blood donations
❣ 5 first time donors
❣❣❣helping as many as 39 lives!
🙌 Thank you Gina & Lily, patient survivor/ volunteering at her second drive, representing D4M & Colorado Accreta Survivors!
Saint Anthony Hospital 9/24/20
❣ 20 blood donations
❣ 8 scheduled, 5 walkins, 4 first-time donors
❣ helping as many as 52 lives.
🙌 Thank you Brie & Dani, both patient survivors, representing D4M & Colorado Accreta Survivors!
Porter Adventist
❣22 blood donations
❣25 scheduled, 3 walk-ins, 2 first time donors
🙌 Thank you Whitney, for representing D4M as always!
❣ Finished September Labor of Love MOTHERSTRONG!! ❣
Skyridge Hospital 9/29/20
❣ 30 whole blood donations
❣32 scheduled donations, 5 walk ins
❣7 first time Donors
❣130% above average!!
❣❣❣helping as many as 78 lives
💞 Dr. Novotny volunteered herself & her mother, on a day she was also working on Labor & Delivery, delivering mother & babies' care.
💞 Dr. Berga volunteered & was one of the few donors donating a DOUBLE red unit (2 units of blood!).
🙌 Thank you Kristin, Vitalant drive Coordinator & AFE patient survivor, Carla (mother of OBGYN), Dr. Sonia Novotny & Dr. Sally Berga (OBGYNs), for beautifully representing D4M.
Parker Adventist @Donation Center 9/21-27
❣ 7 whole blood donations
❣ 2 reengaged
❣❣❣helping as many as 18 lives!
🙌 Thank you Tricia, Director of OB & Neonatology at Parker Adventist Hospital, for organizing this week for D4M!
Medical Center of Aurora 9/30/20
❣19 whole blood donations
❣ 21 scheduled blood donations, 5 walk in
❣ 5 first time Donors!
❣❣❣helping as many as 49 lives!
🙌 Thank you Whitney & Dani, patient survivor, for representing D4M & Colorado Accreta Survivors at her second drive !
Vitalant Donation Centers (across regions)
❣18 whole blood donations, 1 platelet donation, 11 first time donors!
- Lowry donation center: 3
- Colorado Springs donation center: 6
- Denver west donation center: 5 donations (1 Platelet donation)
- Highlands Ranch donation center: 1
- Westminster donation center: 1
- Parker donation center: 1
- Rose Medical Center: 1
- Parker Adventist Hospital: 7
Donate for Mothers Drive 2020 Results
-every ONE blood donation can help as many as THREE adults or TEN newborns!
2020 GRAND TOTAL:
💞 337 donations
💞 90 first time donors
💞 impacting as many as 1011 lives!
@Donate4mothers #Vitalygood @vitalantco
Leisure World Sewing Brigade
Leisure World Sewing Brigade
Thanks to tremendous support from the Leisure World Sewing Brigade, we have received 600 more masks, bringing our total to 1300 Donor masks: 300 from Colorado hands, 400 from one dedicated California mother, who enlisted retired community Leisure World Sewing Brigade for another 600! We will give out more masks to any donors & look to Donate for Mothers' May 2021! Blood donor feedback: the bags are really appreciated for the many unique, care-infused handmade masks & gift bags.