Mothers’ Milk Bank of North Texas has partnered again with Outreach Health Services to make breastmilk donations easier for moms in smaller communities. The milk bank's 39th collection depot is located at 4907 Stonewall Street in Greenville, Texas. Forty five miles east of Dallas, this depot now accepts breastmilk donations Monday through Thursday from 7-11:30 a.m. and 1-5:30 p.m.
Outreach Health Services offers a variety of community health services including WIC services. WIC (Women, Infants and Children) offers nutritional and educational support to pregnant women, new mothers and young children. Breastfeeding peer counselor, Elva Seiler says, “We want to make sure that our moms who produce more milk than their babies need, don’t throw it away. They can bring it to us and we will ensure it helps save the lives of medically needy babies.” 
Collection sites like the one in Greenville function as user-friendly and safe satellite donor milk storage facilities. Moms have the convenience of a drop off location close to home and milk is kept frozen before it is shipped to the milk bank for pasteurization. Once it arrives at the milk bank, donor milk is logged into a sophisticated bar code and tracking system and is then thawed, pasteurized and tested for bacteria. Processed milk is then dispensed by prescription to premature and critically ill infants in tamper resistant bottles. Community depots like the one in Greenville have the milk bank on track to process over half a million ounces of donor milk in 2015. For a complete list of depot locations, click here. To contact the Outreach Health Services depot in Greenville, call 903-454-4888.