USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital marks more than 1,300 birth tissue donations
MOBILE, Alabama (July 10, 2024) -- USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital, in partnership with teleGen, a regenerative medicine company, has marked a milestone: More than 1,300 birth tissue donations have been made by mothers delivering babies at the hospital since 2020.
Birth tissue refers to biological tissues associated with childbirth and includes the placenta, umbilical cord, and amniotic membrane. A variety of therapies and procedures rely on tissue donation for wound repair and wound healing. The donated tissue collected by teleGen is used to treat patients who suffer from burns, diabetic ulcers, eye injuries and other wounds and injuries.
A celebration of healing event is planned at the hospital today, July 10, to honor the generosity and compassion of the mothers who choose birth tissue donation.
“We are incredibly grateful to our patients who decide to make a tissue donation that has the potential to positively impact so many others in need,” said Mimi Munn, M.D., a maternal-fetal medicine physician, and professor and chair of obstetrics and gynecology at the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine.
Since 2020, Children’s & Women’s Hospital has partnered with teleGen to provide the opportunity to contribute to the development of medical products for wound healing and surgical repair. Birth tissue from one birth, according to teleGen, can be used to treat as many as 50 patients who suffer from burns, diabetic ulcers, eye injuries or other illnesses.
To learn more about the process of birth tissue donations, visit teleGen at: https://www.telagenllc.com/why-donate
About USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital
As part of the only academic health system on the upper Gulf Coast, USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital is the only stand-alone inpatient facility in Alabama dedicated to providing the most advanced and comprehensive healthcare to the region’s children and women. Services range from the region’s only pediatric emergency center open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, staffed with specially trained emergency medicine physicians to the region’s only level III neonatal intensive care unit, small baby unit and pediatric intensive care unit, where the area’s sickest children receive the most advanced care. The highly trained staff delivers more babies annually than any other hospital in the Mobile area and includes the region’s only high-risk obstetrics program.
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