The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is accepting applications for the 2023 Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies (RMOMS) program.
Donor Name: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/07/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,000,000
Grant Duration: 4 years
Details:
The purpose of the RMOMS program is to establish or continue collaborative improvement and innovation networks to improve access to and delivery of maternity and obstetrics care in rural areas.
The goals of the RMOMS program are to:
- Identify and implement evidence-based and sustainable delivery models for the provision of maternal and obstetrics care in rural hospitals and communities;
- Enhance and preserve access to maternal and obstetric services in rural hospitals that includes developing an approach to aggregate, coordinate, and sustain the delivery and access of preconception, prenatal, pregnancy, labor and delivery, and postpartum services;
- Provide training for professionals in health care settings that do not have specialty maternity care;
- Collaborate with academic institutions that can provide regional clinical expertise (such as specialty expertise and provider support using a variety of modalities including telehealth services) and help identify barriers to providing maternal health care, including strategies for addressing such barriers; and
- Assess and address disparities in infant and maternal health outcomes, including among rural racial and ethnic minority populations and underserved populations.
This program intends to preserve access to and continuity of maternal and obstetrics care in rural communities that address the following RMOMS Focus Areas:
- Rural Hospital Obstetric Service Aggregation
- A regional network with several rural hospitals that are facing challenges in providing obstetric services could aggregate obstetric services to a targeted rural hospital or Critical Access Hospital (CAH) within the rural region to revive or sustain rural obstetric and maternal services.
- Approaches to Risk-Appropriate Care
- Pregnant patients in a rural region should receive care in a facility that best meets their needs and those of their neonates through appropriate risk stratification.
- Financial Sustainability
- Rural hospitals who have coordinated and aggregated their obstetrics services, in partnership with Medicaid and other payers, should aim to demonstrate improved outcomes and potential savings with the goal of ensuring ongoing support of the network once federal funding ceases.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $2,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,000,000
Period of Performance
The period of performance is September 30, 2023 through September 29, 2027 (4 years).
Eligible Applicants
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Small businesses
- For profit organizations other than Small businesses
Additional Information on Eligibility
Eligible applicants are non-profit or for-profit entities providing prenatal care, labor care, birthing, and postpartum care services in rural areas, frontier areas, or medically underserved areas, or to medically underserved populations or Indian Tribes or Tribal organizations.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
