This Hospital "gets it".

Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, MD gets it right in a big way. Mercy has started an umbilical cord blood bank and it's already saving lives. Some points that are noteworthy are that with this new system there is an easy way to better represent the underrepresented populations of donors, particularly minorities. Furthermore, “For every African-American cord the cord blood bank collects, they get a grant from the federal government to help defray their costs,” Nancy Paltell of Maryland Catholic Conference's Respect for Life said, “so the bank is paying all the costs and none of the costs are passed onto the hospital and none are passed onto the mothers.” This is a worthy and laudable thing which we should be encouraging in our communities.

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