UConn Health First Hospital in State to Host Newborn Milk Depot

STORRS/FARMINGTON, CT — UConn Health's John Dempsey Hospital will be the first hospital in Connecticut to serve as a milk depot for breast milk donations for newborns in need.

“Our new milk depot at UConn John Dempsey Hospital is going to benefit our tiniest patients in NICUs across Connecticut and the Northeast, including our very own, the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) here at UConn Health,” said Marisa Merlo, lactation consultant for UConn Health’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

UConn Health’s milk depot will be joining Mothers’ Milk Bank Northeast, a nonprofit community milk bank accredited by the Human Milk Banking Association of North America, which distributes donated, pasteurized human milk to babies in fragile health throughout the Northeast.

See more about the initiative at the UConn Today site.

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