{"id":10652,"date":"2017-06-02T13:28:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T19:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/?p=10652"},"modified":"2025-01-17T13:31:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T20:31:22","slug":"giving-receiving-blood-bank-encourages-mobile-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/giving-receiving-blood-bank-encourages-mobile-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving and receiving: Blood bank encourages mobile drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><figure id=\"attachment_10655\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10655\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10655 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/06\/02071211\/Erin_mountain-pass-photo.webp\" alt=\"Erin Mousey, who was burned in an explosion, stands on top of a Colorado pass.\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/06\/02071211\/Erin_mountain-pass-photo.webp 960w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/06\/02071211\/Erin_mountain-pass-photo-300x224.webp 300w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/06\/02071211\/Erin_mountain-pass-photo-768x574.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/06\/02071211\/Erin_mountain-pass-photo-150x112.webp 150w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/06\/02071211\/Erin_mountain-pass-photo-200x149.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Almost two decades ago, Erin Mousey suffered burns over 86 percent of his body, but it wasn\u2019t until much later in his life that he was able to reflect on just how much blood donations had to do with his survival. Photo courtesy of Erin Mounsey.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although Erin Mounsey needed more blood during his first lifesaving procedure than others need in a lifetime, it wasn\u2019t until much later that he realized how vitally important <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/locations\/garth-englund-blood-donation-center-fort-collins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blood donations<\/a> were to his survival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn general, I had never thought a whole lot about blood, or donating it,\u201d said Mounsey, now 44. \u201cAnd I certainly never thought I\u2019d experience tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Almost two decades ago, at age 28, Mounsey was using a lacquer thinner to strip varnish from the hardwood floor of an old Victorian home in Durango, Colorado. He closed the door to the room to keep the dog off the wet lacquer. Fumes built up, and when they hit the pilot light of an old gas heater, fire engulfed the room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe air was on fire,\u201d Mounsey explained.<\/p>\n<p>He suffered burns over 86 percent of his body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring that time, I underwent over 30 surgeries, the majority of which required blood,\u201d he explained. \u201cDuring the early hours of my fight for life, an escharotomy was performed, which opened me up like a fish being cleaned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He spent two months in a medically-induced coma, and his recovery \u2014 mentally and physically \u2014 was long. Two and a half years passed before he was able to tie his shoes or button his shirt, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo much of my journey was just surviving day to day that I really did not understand what was and had been going on,\u201d Mounsey said. \u201cI didn\u2019t have a chance for a long time to reflect on what saved my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But a few years in, Mounsey started actively studying medical journals and other publications to learn about his experience, and it was then that he started to understand how others \u2014 those he would never know \u2014 played such a vital role in his survival and recovery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLater, I realized my survival hinged on the blood donations of others,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mounsey moved on to become executive director of the American Red Cross of Northern Colorado, and he now manages his own business, A Home for Life \u2014 a network of assisted living, skilled nursing and memory care professionals who provide personal care in real homes.<\/p>\n<p>Mounsey continues to be an advocate for blood donations, including working with his Rotary Club to host an annual blood drive with the UCHealth Garth Englund Blood Donation Center. Garth Englund\u2019s centers in Fort Collins and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/locations\/uchealth-medical-center-of-the-rockies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Loveland<\/a> collect about 8,500 blood products each year through donors and host about 180 mobile blood drives.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10656\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10656 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/06\/02072207\/mobile-blood-bus-nurse-donation.webp\" alt=\"UCHealth employee stands at the door of a bus during a mobile blood drive.\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/06\/02072207\/mobile-blood-bus-nurse-donation.webp 1200w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/06\/02072207\/mobile-blood-bus-nurse-donation-300x190.webp 300w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/06\/02072207\/mobile-blood-bus-nurse-donation-1024x649.webp 1024w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/06\/02072207\/mobile-blood-bus-nurse-donation-768x487.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/06\/02072207\/mobile-blood-bus-nurse-donation-150x95.webp 150w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/06\/02072207\/mobile-blood-bus-nurse-donation-200x127.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UCHealth phlebotomist Vigan Bajraktari greets potential blood donors at the door of one of two UCHealth\u0092s mobile blood buses.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All the blood that is donated to Garth Englund stays in northern Colorado, where the local need increases during summer months, according to Charles Kaine, the center\u2019s blood donation recruiter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStatistically, we have more accidents in the summer months, so we need more blood,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd at the same time, we have fewer people donating because they\u2019re busy and don\u2019t get in to donate as often.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The center schedules donation times for individuals or groups, such as friends or family members wanting to donate together, at one of their locations. Businesses and organizations also can request that the center bring one of its mobile blood buses to their location for a blood drive, which is how the Rotary Club drive is run. Call 970.495.8965 for more information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will help those groups out as much as we can beforehand to get people signed up and educated about donating blood,\u201d Kaine said. \u201cAnd then we provide that-day support during the drive. We are also open to coming in and talking with groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like Mounsey realized years later, Kaine said, \u201cIt comes down to everyone knows it\u2019s important to donate, but people don\u2019t always realize why.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Each donation can help up to two people, 20 percent of whom are children. \u00a0About half the blood needed is for transfusions and other illness-related procedures, but a trauma victim can use up to 100 units of blood in just a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, blood doesn\u2019t last forever. Although plasma can be separated from the red blood cells and kept frozen up to a year, red blood cells are only good for 42 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenge becomes that it take 56 days before you can donate again, so there is that shortfall that\u2019s always out there,\u201d Kaine said.<\/p>\n<p>Donating blood is about a 45-minute process, but the actual donation \u2014 of one pint \u2014 takes about eight to 10 minutes. People can donate every 56 days, but the body replenishes the fluid lost during donation within 24 hours. It is important to eat a good meal and hydrate the day before and the day of a donation.<\/p>\n<p>On June 14 \u2014 World Blood Donor Day \u2014 UCHealth is teaming up with The Human Bean. The Human Bean will be serving free coffee to those who donate at the center, and there will be a center donation bus station at one of the local Human Bean locations. People who want to schedule a time to donate, or who would like to invite the donation bus to their business or organization, can call the center at 970.495.8965.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Erin Mounsey needed more blood during his first lifesaving procedure than others need in a lifetime, it wasn\u2019t until much later that he realized how vitally important blood donations were to his survival. \u201cIn general, I had never thought a whole lot about blood, or donating it,\u201d said Mounsey, now 44. \u201cAnd I certainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2164,"featured_media":10655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,895],"class_list":["post-10652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-blood-donation","tag-garth-englund-blood-donation-center"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blood bank encourages mobile blood drives - UCHealth Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Although Erin Mounsey needed more blood during his first lifesaving procedure than others need in a lifetime, it wasn\u2019t until much later that he realized how vitally important blood donations were to his survival. 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