Mothers' Milk Bank Austin

Charitable care means different things to different people. For some it is associated with shame and guilt; for others, hope, gratitude and relief. At Mothers' Milk Bank at Austin, charitable can mean life . MMBA is in the midst of our month-long end-of-year fundraising campaign . This is not to fund a building, conduct research, or pay anyone’s salary. It’s a campaign to support our Charitable Care Program, in place since the Milk Bank’s founding in 1999. It enables us to provide donor milk to all infants with a medical need for milk without regard to their insurance coverage or family financial resources. Let me explain. MMBA expends substantial resources recruiting milk donors and processing their milk to make it safe for vulnerable babies. For inpatient infants our costs are reimbursed by hospitals, but some fragile babies are sent home from the hospital still medically dependent on donor human milk. MMBA continues to provide the milk, even though insurance companies v