Quintuplets born at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis

Babies in critical, but stable condition at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota

Minneapolis (June 19, 2009) – Angela and Heath Tille, both 31, of River Falls, WI, became parents of quintuplets today at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. The babies, four girls and one boy, were born between 10:29 and 10:32 a.m.

The quintuplets were born at 29 weeks and two days gestation. The babies’ names and weights are:

The Tilles also have a 19-month-old daughter, Meredith.

A team of 11 clinicians led by perinatologists William Block, MD, and William Wagner, MD, high-risk obstetrician/gynecologists from Abbott Northwestern, delivered the babies.

Children’ clinical staff of 17, led by neonatologists David Brasel, MD, Bruce Ferrara, MD, Ronald Hoekstra, MD, Jane Barthell, MD, and Virginia Hustead, MD, stabilized and transported the quintuplets through a tunnel connecting the hospital to Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Abbott Northwestern Hospital is part of Allina Hospitals & Clinics, a not-for-profit health care system of hospitals, clinics and other patient care services that provides exceptional care to communities throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin and employs more than 22,000 people. For more information www.allina.com.

Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota is the seventh -largest pediatric health care organization in the United States, with 332 staffed beds at its two hospitals in St. Paul and Minneapolis. An independent, not-for-profit health care system, Children’s of Minnesota provides care through more than 14,000 inpatient visits and more than 200,000 emergency room and other outpatient visits every year. In 2009, Children’s neonatal program was ranked among the top pediatric hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report and was the only neonatal program in Minnesota to receive that recognition. For more information www.childrensmn.org.