A dedicated group of Greater Hartford Bank of America employees made their annual pilgrimage to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit where they delivered more than one hundred gift baskets for parents of premature infants May 16.

Bank of America organized an effort to collect, purchase or donate items such as preemie-sized clothing, diapers and other newborn supplies, then packaged them into hand-crafted gift baskets for the March of Dimes NICU Family Support Program.

“The baskets are beautiful and I have received many comments and thanks from the parents who received them,” says Jeanne Lattanzio, the Health Center’s March of Dimes Family Support Specialist. “The NICU staff and the March of Dimes are deeply appreciative of their continued generosity for the parents and infants in the NICU.”

This is the 5th year that Bank of America employees from the Farmington office on Batterson Park Road and the East Hartford office on Founders Plaza have delivered the baskets to the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center’s NICU at the Health Center.

The March of Dimes hosted a luncheon for the Bank of America employees and they were also given a tour of the NICU.

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