NEXTpittsburgh (March 29, 2016) - Val Lee was the first donor at the newly opened Three Rivers Mothers’ Milk Bank on Penn Avenue and attended their recent Grand Opening. Accompanying her was her husband, Ben Lee. The young couple from Cranberry lost their baby, Ashton,...
WTAE (March 16, 2016) - The first donor breast milk bank in the western Pennsylvania region is opening in Pittsburgh and will be the only one supplying hospitals throughout the state. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that an open house and ribbon-cutting ceremony are scheduled Wednesday at...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (March 16, 2016) - Milk donors, foundations and other invited guests today will visit the new Strip District headquarters of the Three Rivers Mothers’ Milk Bank, the region’s first milk bank and the only one serving hospitals throughout the state. Those attending the open...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (January 14, 2016) - Denise O’Connor wrapped a pink-and-purple bow around a bulky cooler and wheeled 25 containers of pasteurized and processed breast milk through the lobby of Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC Wednesday afternoon — the culmination of two years of...
Watch the video here. Tribune-Review (January 4, 2016) - Katie Bentz's body was producing breast milk on overdrive — for good reason. After her son David's birth, nurses advised her to pump more milk to help treat his jaundice. David got better. Bentz began producing milk in large...
90.5 WESA (Novemeber 6, 2015) - Infant mortality in Western Pennsylvania is more than 17 percent higher than the national average, with significant disparities between white and African American babies. To combat these statistics and improve the health of newborns in the region, the Three...
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...