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HRSA-23-049: Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies Program

Closed Closed July 7, 2023 Opportunity HRSA-23-049 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is forecast: Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies Program (HRSA-27-047). Status: Expected deadline April 20, 2027. It is in our archive of Health Resources and Services Administration notices from 2023.

• Award ceiling$1.0 million
• Total funding$2.0 million
• Expected awards2
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to nonprofits, tribes, small businesses and businesses.

• Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• For profit organizations other than small businesses
• Small businesses
• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

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.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Rural Healthcare Services Programs awards averaged $487,643; this notice allows up to $1.0 million per award.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies (RMOMS) program. 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: (i) Identify and implement evidence-based and sustainable delivery models for the provision of maternal and obstetrics care in rural hospitals and communities; (ii) 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; (iii) Provide training for professionals in health care settings that do not have specialty maternity care; (iv) 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 (v) Assess and address disparities in infant and maternal health outcomes, including among rural racial and ethnic minority populations and underserved populations. Applicants are encouraged to propose novel ways to achieve these goals through the establishment or continuation of collaborative improvement and innovation networks. The RMOMS program seeks to document and monitor progress on these goals through the collection of aggregate data from each RMOMS award recipient and their network members. All network members will be REQUIRED to collect and share aggregate data. This program intends to preserve access to and continuity of maternal and obstetrics care in rural communities that address the following RMOMS Focus Areas: 1) 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.

Category: Health.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, HRSA-27-047, which is forecast.

The notice on Grants.gov keeps its full text and attachments, which is useful for planning a resubmission.