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Austin Milk Bank to Help More Preemies Thrive in 2010
WHO: The Mothers’ Milk Bank at Austin
WHAT: Grand Opening Celebration at our new home!
Hors d’oeuvres and wine will be served.
Free parking.
WHEN: Thursday, March 25, 2010 from 5 to 7 p.m.
WHERE: 2911 Medical Arts St., Suite 12 (in Medical Arts Square), Austin, TX 78705
The Mothers’ Milk Bank at Austin welcomes supporters and friends to tour its new home in central Austin, near St. David’s Hospital and just north of the University of Texas campus. The new facility features three state-of-the-art pasteurizing labs, a drive-thru Milk Drop for milk donors, a meeting room where groups can gather, and expanded office space for staff.
This year, the Mothers’ Milk Bank at Austin will:
• Recruit and screen 400 milk donors
• Train and manage 70 volunteers
• Process 9% more milk (on top of last year’s 22% increase)
• Provide charitable care to uninsured babies
• Help more than 1,600 fragile babies thrive.
The expanded and renovated facility helps to make this growth possible, and has been generously supported by a significant grant from the St. David’s Foundation. Additional funding has come from the Austin Community Foundation, JMR Barker Foundation, Lola Wright Foundation, The Meadows Foundation, and Ronald McDonald House Charities.
The Mothers’ Milk Bank at Austin is a non-profit organization whose mission is to accept, pasteurize, and dispense donor human milk by physician prescription, primarily to premature and ill infants. These babies are more likely to acquire life-threatening infections if fed formula instead of human milk. The most common infection, necrotizing entercolitis, can damage the intestines so severely that many babies who acquire it will die. The remainder face life-long complications. Preemies fed human milk – either their mother’s own or pasteurized donor milk – are largely protected from this devastating condition.
Though it is standard practice for hospital neonatologists to strongly encourage mothers of preemies to breastfeed or express their milk for tube-feeding their very small babies, fewer than half of mothers of premature infants are able to do so. The Milk Bank provides safe donor human milk to preterm and ill infants in the hospital and to sick babies at home.
The Mothers’ Milk Bank at Austin was founded in 1999 by a group of doctors and parents, led by Dr. Sonny Rivera, Chief of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at St. David’s Medical Center, and the late Dr. George Sharpe.
Milk Bank Contact:
Sarah Masterson, Communications & Volunteer Coordinator
sarah@milkbank.org or 512-579-3978
http://www.milkbank.org/
WHO: The Mothers’ Milk Bank at Austin
WHAT: Grand Opening Celebration at our new home!
Hors d’oeuvres and wine will be served.
Free parking.
WHEN: Thursday, March 25, 2010 from 5 to 7 p.m.
WHERE: 2911 Medical Arts St., Suite 12 (in Medical Arts Square), Austin, TX 78705
The Mothers’ Milk Bank at Austin welcomes supporters and friends to tour its new home in central Austin, near St. David’s Hospital and just north of the University of Texas campus. The new facility features three state-of-the-art pasteurizing labs, a drive-thru Milk Drop for milk donors, a meeting room where groups can gather, and expanded office space for staff.
This year, the Mothers’ Milk Bank at Austin will:
• Recruit and screen 400 milk donors
• Train and manage 70 volunteers
• Process 9% more milk (on top of last year’s 22% increase)
• Provide charitable care to uninsured babies
• Help more than 1,600 fragile babies thrive.
The expanded and renovated facility helps to make this growth possible, and has been generously supported by a significant grant from the St. David’s Foundation. Additional funding has come from the Austin Community Foundation, JMR Barker Foundation, Lola Wright Foundation, The Meadows Foundation, and Ronald McDonald House Charities.
The Mothers’ Milk Bank at Austin is a non-profit organization whose mission is to accept, pasteurize, and dispense donor human milk by physician prescription, primarily to premature and ill infants. These babies are more likely to acquire life-threatening infections if fed formula instead of human milk. The most common infection, necrotizing entercolitis, can damage the intestines so severely that many babies who acquire it will die. The remainder face life-long complications. Preemies fed human milk – either their mother’s own or pasteurized donor milk – are largely protected from this devastating condition.
Though it is standard practice for hospital neonatologists to strongly encourage mothers of preemies to breastfeed or express their milk for tube-feeding their very small babies, fewer than half of mothers of premature infants are able to do so. The Milk Bank provides safe donor human milk to preterm and ill infants in the hospital and to sick babies at home.
The Mothers’ Milk Bank at Austin was founded in 1999 by a group of doctors and parents, led by Dr. Sonny Rivera, Chief of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at St. David’s Medical Center, and the late Dr. George Sharpe.
Milk Bank Contact:
Sarah Masterson, Communications & Volunteer Coordinator
sarah@milkbank.org or 512-579-3978
http://www.milkbank.org/
