Milk Banks

It’s a big responsibility, knowing the wellbeing of infants rests in your hands. 

Mother’s milk helps to prevent necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a disease that attacks or damages the intestinal tract of infants and can lead to long-term illness or death. Donor milk can have a significant and lifesaving impact for mothers who are unable to provide enough breast milk to feed newborns.  

Milk banks provide a critical and sometimes lifesaving benefit for these families.  But collecting, processing, and distributing donor breast milk to infants isn’t an easy task. Significant effort goes into finding and screening donors. Operators of donor banks don’t need to feel stressed about the possibility of experiencing a shipping mishap, especially after so much effort has been invested.

It’s imperative to choose the right logistics partners when anxious moms or neonatal centers depend on receiving their deliveries.  Donor milk saves and protects the lives of babies. 

PeriShip specializes in perishable and time-sensitive delivery of products, offering peace of mind to milk banks, hospitals, and mothers alike.  A team of expert problem solvers monitors and manages the delivery of your parcel shipments from the time the product label is produced until it arrives at the delivery destination. 

Bringing Breast Milk Closer to Home

Infants who need donated milk face many challenges. In some parts of the country, there is limited access to local milk banks. Milk banks like yours are non-existent in many rural and low-income areas. 4.1% of hospitals in the Midwest reported donor milk was unavailable, while that number rises to 23.8% in the Northeast.  Many milk banks are at least 180 miles away from the hospitals and moms they’re trying to serve.

Donor milk is a necessity for hospitals. Nearly 75% of neonatal intensive care units require donor milk to serve their infant patients.

Milk bank shipping is vital for the roughly 7% of Moms who need donor milk. Babies tend to need milk for at least 12 months and must have access to a reliable supply. 

What PeriShip Does

The Human Milk Banking Association of North America dispenses roughly 72,000 gallons of donor milk every year. On-time delivery is the key to reducing spoilage and eliminating waste. It’s more important than ever to work with the right logistical provider. After all, many organizations will tell you donor milk is “more valuable than gold.”

When weather events, routing issues, or other shipping disruptions occur, PeriShip is ready to intervene and help packages arrive as scheduled. 

Most milk banks don’t have the time or resources to monitor and track shipments, but PeriShip can help. Our high-touch customer support team watches each shipment as it progresses across the country, tracking weather and identifying service disruptions. We intervene the moment we identify a problem.

We keep you in the loop with phone calls, text messages, and email alerts. We also provide access to your own dashboard so you can check in at any time. But you never have to—when we’re on the job, human donor milk is as good as sent from the moment you place it in its packaging and arrange for shipping. 

Why Milk Banks Choose PeriShip

Our experience with perishable goods makes us an excellent choice for milk banks. Here are a few reasons you can rely on PeriShip:

• Enjoy customer support tailored to meet the unique needs of milk banks.
• Leave logistics worries behind. We’ll manage the intricacies of scheduling pickups and monitoring shipments while you manage donations, testing, and other challenges.
• Protect the lives of vulnerable babies through efficient and reliable deliveries you can count on.
• Maintain control with 24/7 access to shipment tracking to communicate with recipient locations in real time.