05/08/2026
Vanderbilt Clarksville has a milk bank!! Overproducers consider donating to them!
MOTHERS’ MILK SAVES BABIES.
And many have stepped up.
When Vanderbilt Clarksville Hospital opened its Milk Drop Depot last May, leaders hoped to attract a handful of local donors.
One year later, the program has far exceeded those expectations — collecting more than 13,200 ounces of donated breast milk from 28 approved donors, enough for over 23,500 feedings.
The depot, operated in partnership with Mothers’ Milk Bank of Tennessee, connects generous Clarksville-area mothers with premature and medically fragile infants across Middle Tennessee.
Ninety-two percent of pasteurized donor milk collected by the milk bank goes directly to hospital neonatal intensive care units statewide.
Donated mothers’ milk from the depot is picked up by the Mothers’ Milk Bank of Tennessee, processed and transported to NICUs throughout the state to serve as another ‘medication’ for the most fragile, low birth weight premature infants.
THIS IS GREAT.
