NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS! We are proud to welcome the Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould and Saline Memorial Hospital in Benton to our Milk Bank Depots!! Welcome to the UAMS Milk Banking Community!
Information for dropping milk at any area depot site is listed below.
THANK YOU for donating your milk! You are dropping your milk off at one of our depot centers. The depot team will keep your milk frozen and safe until it can be shipped to us at UAMS Milk Bank. If your milk is older than 6 months from when you pumped it please make sure to let the depot team know that your milk needs to be sent to UAMS Milk Bank soon.
Please have your milk in bags (like a Target or Walmart bag) or a large Ziplock with your name and/or Donor ID on the bag. Please place a donor card in at least one of the bags you are dropping off. If you lost your donor cards or have run out the depot team should have a card they can give you OR you can write the following information on an index card.
- Name
- Donor ID
- Drop off Date
- Any changes to your diet or lifestyle? If so please call us at 501-686-5355.
- Any changes to your health status? If so, please call us at 501-686-5355.
- Any change in complying with the waiting period after consuming alcohol? If so please call us at 501-686-5355.
- Has anyone in your house been sick or exposed to an infectious disease? If so, please call us at 501-686-5355
- Have you changed or added medication (prescription, over the counter, and or herbal supplements? If so, please call us at 501-686-5355.
- Is this your final donation?
- Do you need milk bags?
Let us know if you need more Donor Cards, milk storage bags or pump part sterilization bags!
Milk Depot Locations
UAMS Milk Bank – Little Rock, AR
401 South Monroe Street
Monday – Friday: 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
You may park or pull up to the doors at the front of the circle drive. Call (501) 686-5355 and someone will come meet you to enter or to meet you at your car to pick up the milk. Donors are always welcome to come in to see our facility.
Conway Baptist Milk Depot
1555 Exchange Avenue, Conway AR 72032
Labor & Delivery (1st Floor)
(501) 585-2170
Monday-Friday: 8 a.m – 5 p.m.
Contact: Megan Smith
Turn left after entering the front of the building and continue until you reach Labor & Delivery. Please call before you come if you need to drop your milk outside of operation hours.
Stuttgart Baptist Milk Depot
1703 N. Puerkle St, Stuttgart AR 72160
870-674-6420 or 501-580-0802 (cell)
24hrs a day, 7 days a week
Contact: Amy Shultz
Come to the Emergency Room entrance. At the reception desk ask to contact the OB nurse station. Someone will come meet you at the ER entry to take your milk.
Mercy NWA Milk Depot
2710 S Rife Medical Lane, Rogers AR
(479) 338-2072
By appointment only
Monday-Friday: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. and Sunday: 10 a.m. -2 p.m.
Operational Hours: Call to schedule an appointment for drop off. Enter the main entrance and take the “A” Elevators to the Women’s & Children’s Unit on the 5th Floor. Or you can schedule a drive-up milk drop and someone will meet you at your vehicle at the hospital’s main entrance.
Fort Smith Baptist Health Milk Depot at Expressly for You
1500 Dodson Avenue, Suite 140, Fort Smith, AR 72901
479-441-5694 or 479-709-1910
Monday – Friday: 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Enter the double doors under the Baptist Health Breast Center awning and the Expressly for You office is straight in, to the left. Please call if you need to drop off at a different time.
Mena Regional
311 North Morrow Street, Mena, AR
479-394-6100 ext 2409 (OR extension 6401)
Monday – Friday: 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Operation Hours: Drop off hours available 24/7. Park in the Women’s Center parking lot and enter. Weekends and after hours come in through the main hospital entrance and walk back to the women’s center. Enter through the first door of the Women’s Center and push the buzzer on the left of the second door to continue forward.
UAMS Milk Depot at Conway Regional Medical Center
Women’s Center Building 2, Lactation Services
2302 College Avenue, Conway AR 72034
501-548-7601
Monday – Friday: 7 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Donor Instructions: May contact Barbara Burgner for other drop-off arrangements. Please text or call when coming to drop off milk.
UAMS Milk Bank Depot at Van Buren County Health Unit.
526 Quality Dr., Clinton, AR 72031
501-745-2485
Monday – Wednesday: 8 a.m. -3 p.m. (call for additional hours)
Contact: Vanessa Breedlove
UAMS Milk Bank Depot at Independence County Health Unit
120 Weaver Dr., Batesville, AR 72501
870-793-8848
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. ; Tuesday 8:30 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Contact: Taylor Tosh
National Park Medical Center – UAMS Milk Bank Depot
1910 Malvern Avenue, Hot Springs, AR 71901
501-620-2774
9 a.m. – 8 p.m daily
Contact: Ashley York
Instructions to donors making a deposit: Call 501-620-1280 before arrival to let someone know to expect you. Ask for Labor and Delivery at the front entrance of the hospital.
OR
Enter the main entrance and follow signs to Labor and Delivery. Ring the doorbell and L&D staff will let you in so that you can come to the Labor and Delivery nurses’ desk.
St. Bernards Pregnancy Clinic
4334 East Highland Drive, Suite B, Jonesboro, AR 72402
870-207-0420
Monday-Thursday: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. (call for additional hours)
Contact: Angela Sweet
Drew Memorial/Monticello Baptist
778 Scogin Drive, Monticello, AR 71655
870-460-3509
Monday – Friday: 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Contact: Kristen Smith
During regular hours: From the main entrance go left up the little ramp, pick up on the phone and say they need to bring donor milk to the nursery depot drop off.
After hours: Come to the ER entrance and tell the clerk they have a milk depot drop off. Go through the ER waiting into the hallway beyond, walk to the end and go left. Turn right at the first hall on the right then left into the next left hallway (to Labor & Delivery). Pick up the phone to let someone inside know you are there to drop off milk.
Saline Memorial Hospital Milk Depot
#1 Medical Park Drive, Benton, AR 72015
501-776-6300
Monday – Friday: 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Contact: Brynn Doddridge
Please call (501) 776-6300 prior to your drop off, so staff can be ready when you arrive. Enter through the main hospital entrance. Once in the building go to the right. Turn right and get on the elevator. Go up to the 3rd floor. Press the button for access to the unit. Go to the right and someone will assist you.
Arkansas Methodist Medical Center Milk Depot
900 West KingsHighway, Paragould, AR 72450
870-919-7739
7 days a week: 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Contact: Morgan Taylor
Enter through the MAIN hospital entrance and go to Labor & Delivery on the 2nd floor. Ask the staff member at the desk about dropping off your donated milk.