KDKA (October 9, 2015) - Local intensive care units for newborns, called NICUs, used to have to turn to Columbus, Ohio for the nearest supply of banked breast milk. Now, in the Strip District, Pittsburgh will have a milk bank of its own, supplying the NICUs...
Pittsburgh Courier (October 8, 2015) - Pennsylvania’s first breast milk bank is now accepting donations from nursing mothers in anticipation of its November opening in Pittsburgh. Three Rivers Mothers’ Milk Bank will service sick babies throughout both Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The nonprofit’s 5,000-square-foot building will include...
Tribune-Review (October 6, 2015) - For some babies, human breast milk is medicine. Pittsburgh is about to become home to a breast-milk bank equipped with a pasteurization and bottling laboratory, freezers and a classroom. The nonprofit Three Rivers Mothers' Milk Bank is taking shape in a...
PennLive (May 8, 2015) - She knew her baby wouldn't survive, but from a place of unspeakable pain she chose to help someone else's child. That's a common scenario in the neonatal intensive care unit at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. While finding the courage to say the...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (May 6, 2015) - Funding continues apace, a location has been located and would-be donors are ready to donate, all of which is coalescing nicely for a late summer or early fall opening of the Three Rivers Mothers’ Milk Bank, set to be...
WTAE (May 6, 2015) - The first breast milk bank that will service the entire state is set to open in Pittsburgh in late summer or early fall. The Three Rivers Mothers' Milk Bank, a nonprofit organization, will provide donated breast milk to babies in neonatal...
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports the Three Rivers Mothers' Milk Bank is opening in late summer or early fall. Organizers say it will make breast milk available to babies in neonatal intensive-care units when their mothers are unavailable. Breast milk will also be given to outpatient babies who...
Tribune-Review (January 4, 2015) - When Teresa Vinisky gave birth to premature twins in 2002, she was in a bind common to mothers of preemies — she wanted to breastfeed because doctors told her it would help ward off specific complications, but she couldn't produce...