Orlando Health Lake Mary Hospital is Official Milk Depot for Mothers’ Milk Bank of Florida, Inc.

Orlando Health Lake Mary Hospital becomes the first hospital in Seminole County to become a milk drop depot for the Mothers’ Milk Bank of Florida. Mothers who qualify can donate extra breast milk to help nourish premature and at-risk babies in a safe and controlled milk collection point. Recently, Orlando Health Lake Mary Hospital received its first donation of 500 ounces of milk from Nicole Wirth of Sanford.

Donated milk greatly reduces the incidence of digestive tract infections and many other infections. One ounce of donated milk can feed a tiny preemie for an entire day and give him or her a fighting chance at surviving and improved health.

Qualified donor mothers with Mothers’ Milk Bank of Florida undergo health screenings, wellness check-ins must meet the following criteria:

• Having more milk than what her own baby may need
• Are non-smokers
• Are in excellent health

“Orlando Health Lake Mary Hospital is proud to be a drop-off site for Mothers’ Milk Bank of Florida,” said Holli Elliott, RN, BSN, IBCLC with Orlando Health Lake Mary Hospital Maternal Education. “These generous donations can do wonders for these special babies.”

Donations provided to Mothers’ Milk Bank of Florida is distributed via prescription to Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies and other neonatal intensive care units throughout Florida.

For more information on how to become a donor visit milkbankofflorida.org.

Pictures of the first milk donation to Orlando Health Lake Mary Hospital can be found here.

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Orlando Health is a private not-for-profit, integrated academic healthcare system with $14 billion of assets under management, that serves the southeastern United States – including Florida and Alabama – and Puerto Rico. With corporate offices in Orlando, Florida the system provides a complete continuum of care across a network of medical centers and institutes, community and specialty hospitals, physician practices, urgent care facilities, skilled nursing facilities, home healthcare, and long-term and behavioral health care services. Founded more than 100 years ago, Orlando Health’s mission is to improve the health and the quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve. The system provided nearly $2 billion in community impact in the form of community benefit programs and services, Medicare shortfalls, bad debt, community-building activities and capital investments in FY 24, the most recent period for which the information is available. For more information, visit orlandohealth.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X.

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