This Cooperative Agreement award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Cooperative Agreements to Support State-Based Safe Motherhood and Infant Health Initiative Programs (CFDA 93.946) will provide $1,710,000.00 to the Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services (MDHSS) from September 30, 2024 to September 30, 2029. The funding will support MDHSS's Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review (PAMR) program by facilitating timely identification of maternal deaths...
This $191,324 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Cooperative Agreements to Support State-Based Safe Motherhood and Infant Health Initiative Programs (CFDA 93.946) will support the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) in administering the Missouri Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) and the School Health Profiles survey. The award period is from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2029. The CDC's Division of...
This Project Grant award of $24,326,966.00 was made by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant to the States program (CFDA 93.994). The funding will support the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (MDHSS) in delivering a comprehensive range of maternal and child health services across the state over the October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026 performance period. Key services to be provided under this...
The Mississippi Division of Medicaid was awarded a $17 million Cooperative Agreement under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) Transforming Maternal Health (TMaH) Model (CFDA 93.869) to implement comprehensive maternal health care delivery reforms. The funding will support initiatives to: 1) Enhance access to maternal care by assessing the state's midwifery workforce, exploring the impact of doulas and community health workers, expanding data collection, and implementing risk...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Cooperative Agreements to Support State-Based Safe Motherhood and Infant Health Initiative Programs (CFDA 93.946) provides $990,000 to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) over a 5-year period from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2029. The funding will support MDPH's efforts to enhance maternal mortality surveillance, data collection, and review processes in Massachusetts. Key...
The Delta Health Center (DHC) in Mound Bayou, Mississippi has been awarded a $900,000 Project Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Rural Health Care Services Outreach, Rural Health Network Development and Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement program (CFDA 93.912). The goal of the Mississippi Delta Maternal Care Coordination (MCC) project is to significantly decrease rates of late entry into prenatal care, low birthweight, and preterm birth in the...
This $1,500,000 Project Grant award from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs (CFDA 93.110) will fund the creation of the Pennsylvania Public-Private Perinatal Action Collaborative (PAC). The PAC will function as a maternal health task force to cultivate cross-sector partnerships, improve maternal health outcomes, enhance data surveillance, and implement innovative care models in high-risk counties across...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) a $990,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Cooperative Agreements to Support State-Based Safe Motherhood and Infant Health Initiative Programs (CFDA 93.946). The funding will support the Arkansas Maternal Mortality Review Committee (AMMRC) in conducting comprehensive reviews of maternal deaths, characterizing pregnancy-related mortality trends and risk factors, and developing recommendations...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded a $990,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) on September 30, 2024. This 5-year award (through September 29, 2029) is funded under the CDC's "Cooperative Agreements to Support State-Based Safe Motherhood and Infant Health Initiative Programs" (CFDA 93.946). Through this Cooperative Agreement, MSDH will conduct comprehensive reviews of maternal deaths, collect and analyze...
This federal Block Grant award, totaling $950,532,090.00, was provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services through the Medical Assistance Program (CFDA 93.778). The funding supports the Missouri Department of Social Services in delivering comprehensive Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) services to low-income populations in the state, including medical care payments, eligibility determinations, claims processing,...
MISSOURI PERINATAL QUALITY COLLABORATIVE - MISSOURI HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION (MHA) IS PLEASED TO APPLY FOR COMPONENT A OF THE STATEWIDE PERINATAL QUALITY COLLABORATIVES, CDC-RFA-DP22-2207. AS THE LEAD AGENCY OF MISSOURI'S MATERNAL-CHILD LEARNING AND ACTION NETWORK (MC LAN), MHA IS POISED TO LEVERAGE THIS FUNDING OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE THE CAPACITY, REACH, AND IMPACT OF THE MC LAN'S INITIATIVES. THIS PROJECT SEEKS TO MAKE MEASURABLE IMPROVEMENTS IN EQUITABLE PERINATAL HEALTH OUTCOMES ACROSS MISSOURI, PARTICULARLY IN POPULATIONS WHO EXPERIENCE HEALTH DISPARITIES SUCH AS BLACK AND RURAL BIRTHING PEOPLE. BY INCREASING PERSONNEL INFRASTRUCTURE, IMPROVING DATA COLLECTION AND STRATIFICATION ACROSS IMPORTANT SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH (SDOH), AND INTEGRATING PATIENT AND FAMILY PARTNERS, THE MC LAN SEEKS TO ACHIEVE MEANINGFUL, SUSTAINED SYSTEMIC CHANGE THROUGH QUALITY IMPROVEMENT EFFORTS ACROSS MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH (MCH) STAKEHOLDERS. MHA AND THE MC LAN HAVE A PROVEN TRACK RECORD OF ENGAGING MISSOURI BIRTHING FACILITIES IN PAST AND CURRENT QUALITY IMPROVEMENT (QI) INITIATIVES, AND WITH INCREASED CAPACITY WOULD ENGAGE ADDITIONAL FACILITIES IN NEW INITIATIVES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO CARDIAC CONDITIONS IN OBSTETRIC CARE, PERINATAL MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS, AND POSTPARTUM DISCHARGE TRANSITION PATIENT SAFETY BUNDLES. IN ADDITION TO INCREASING RECRUITMENT, THE MC LAN WILL EMPLOY MORE ROBUST DATA COLLECTION, ANALYSIS, AND STRATIFICATION, INCLUDING CAPTURE OF KEY SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND IMPROVED RACE, ETHNICITY, AND LANGUAGE DEMOGRAPHICS TO ENABLE MORE SPECIFIC INTERVENTIONS AND REDUCTION OF HEALTH DISPARITIES. FINALLY, THIS FUNDING OPPORTUNITY WILL SUPPORT INCREASED ENGAGEMENT OF PATIENT AND FAMILY PARTNERS IN THE WORK OF THE MC LAN. THE MC LAN CURRENTLY HAS A STRONG, DIVERSE GROUP OF CLINICAL AND COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATION PARTNERS. PATIENT AND FAMILY PARTNERS WILL ADD DIVERSE, LIVED EXPERIENCE PERSPECTIVES AND FURTHER INFORM QI EFFORTS. MHA AND THE CORE LEADERSHIP TEAM OF THE MC LAN HAVE VARIED, RELEVANT EXPERTISE TO EFFECTIVELY, EFFICIENTLY, AND EQUITABLY IMPLEMENT THE WORK PLAN AND STRATEGIES PROPOSED. WITH MULTI-SECTOR PARTNERS AND A STRONG DATA INFRASTRUCTURE, MISSOURI WILL BUILD UPON ITS FOUR YEARS OF COLLABORATIVE AND EVIDENCE-BASED PERINATAL QI WORK TO INCLUDE A BROADER STATEWIDE REACH. THE MC LAN ALSO HAS THE STRUCTURES AND PARTNERSHIPS TO ENSURE PARTICIPATORY EVALUATION OF EFFORTS AND STAKEHOLDER DISSEMINATION OF LEARNINGS TO CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE AND APPROPRIATELY TARGET EFFORTS TO MAXIMIZE PERINATAL AND POPULATION HEALTH OUTCOMES.