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Is there a New England milk bank now?

April 26, 2017Bank milk New England

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Is there a New England milk bank now?

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The last milk bank in New England that distributed milk regionally was in Worcester, MA. Founded in 1975, along with numerous other milk banks nationally, the milk bank distributed milk primarily to premature infants, and was based at Memorial Hospital when it closed for financial reasons in the mid 1990s. The Central Massachusetts Regional Milk Bank distributed donor milk to recipients in a number of states as well in Massachusetts. Donor milk currently used in New England must be shipped in frozen from one of the other Human Milk Banking Association of North America (HMBANA) milk banks on a case-by-case basis. A current list of HMBANA member milk banks and their locations may be found at www.hmbana.org.