The C.S. Mott Children's and Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital is home to the first formula and human milk preparation room in a pediatric hospital nationwide.

The Milk Room safely stores, prepares, and delivers infant formulas and human milk to patients.

Milk Room Services

Services related to human milk:

Storage of frozen human milk during inpatient hospitalization
Human milk drop-off window
Human milk inventory tracking
Twice daily preparation and delivery of fortified human milk to the patient's in-room refrigerator
Supplies and services for packing human milk at discharge for safe transportation home

For infants with specialized nutritional and medical needs:

Skimmed human milk for infants with chylothorax
Heat Pasteurized Donor Human Milk from a milk bank certified by the Human Milk Banking Association of North America© for infants who meet specific criteria
Human Milk-Based Human Milk Fortifier for infants who meet specific criteria

Formula related services:

Once daily preparation and delivery of specialized mixed infant and pediatric formulas to the patient's in-room refrigerator
Once daily delivery of ready-to-feed oral nutrition supplement and tube feeding products