Human Milk Banking Association Of North America (HMBANA) has
Recommendations for Collection and Storage of Mothers Milk in a Hospital
Setting. Contact the Denver Milk Bank at
Denver, CO (303) 869-1888
As a former Milk Bank and Coordinator of Breastfeeding Center we use a
regular upright Freezer (one that you have to defrost, cannot be self
defrosting. We have never had to use a commercial freezer. The regular
freezers work fine. The freezer temperatures are monitored on a daily
basis and recorded for. They are maintained at -20 C. ( 0 F)
Hope this is helpful.
Thank you,
Darlene Breed, BS, RN, IBCLC
Coordinator, Breastfeeding Center
UMass Memorial Medical Center
Worcester, MA
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 12:11:54 -0400 Eric and Amy Mueller
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> Are there any established National Guidelines or Standards for
> storage temperature of expressed breastmilk for hospitalized infants
> that would be required by JCAHO or US Dept of Health, etc?
>
> Other than purchasing a commercial freezer for ~$7000, is there
> anything that keeps the milk at an acceptable temperature and can be
> documented as such? We have a 19 bed Level 2 NICU. Average census is
> ~10, length of storage is ~2 weeks and the maximum is 6 weeks. The
> stock is rotated. Our bio-med dept has been working with our current
> freezer but have not been able to get it to maintain -20 degrees C
> (Auerbach, 1999 p. 454). Our NICU manager has been doing research on
> different freezers and she has not found one that will maintain temp
> that low except for a very expensive commercial freezer.
>
> This may not be a problem for hospitals with large NICUs who can
> justify the cost of a commercial freezer. I'd really appreciate
> responses from anyone who can tell me what smaller hospitals are
> doing. We just had our JCAHO survey and they didn't even ask, but
> we'd still like to document that we are meeting a Standard if there
> is one.
>
> Amy Mueller, BSN, RN, IBCLC
> Traverse City, Michigan, USA
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