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New Safe Haven Baby Box is first in Iowa Quad Cities

By Linda Cook,

21 hours ago

A new Safe Haven Baby Box has come to Davenport.

The box will give mothers in crisis a safe, anonymous way to surrender their newborns. It's at MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center on East Rusholme Street

This is the first Safe Haven box in the Iowa Quad Cities.

"This is a safe box. So it's air-conditioned or it's heated. And we are a 24/7 facility so we're going to be at this box within 90 seconds to get that baby out, get that baby safe and get that baby the care they need," said Lauren Lovedy, emergency room department supervisor.

The project was made possible through donations to the MercyOne Genesis Foundation. A blessing and official unveiling will be held at 9:30 a.m. Monday.

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