WASHINGTON – Daviess Community Hospital is expanding its partnership with The Milk Bank to provide pasteurized breast milk to NICU infants at home.
Daviess Community Hospital has been a donation site for The Milk Bank for four years. With the help of generous donors, they’ve collected 10,243 ounces of milk for fragile NICU infants.
The Milk Bank is on a mission to promote community health by expanding the safe use of human milk for all babies, especially premature and ill infants. The Milk Bank impacts the greater Midwest area through the safe collection and distribution of pasteurized human donor breast milk. The Milk Bank dispensed safe donor milk to hospitals and families across 25 states in 2021.
They’re now expanding their partnership by offering Milk Express, where parents can pick up pasteurized donor human milk for their infants who are now at home.
The Milk Bank ensures safety guidelines are followed and offers a Medical Relief Fund for those with financial barriers.
Every ounce counts. By donating milk, you can help more babies celebrate a first birthday. Safe donor milk is more than just nutrition. For some, it’s life-saving medicine.
More than 1,000 milk donors each year answer the call to save a life, and you can too. For more information click here.
Those interested in the program can call 317-536-1670 for more information.
