This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), is supporting the implementation and evaluation of a technology-based collaborative care model called RI-SPHERES. The goal is to reduce short- and long-term morbidity associated with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) and improve preventive care attendance among postpartum patients in Rhode Island. The...
This Project Grant award of $400,000 from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs (CFDA 93.110) will enable the Delaware Perinatal Quality Collaborative (DPQC) to implement the Postpartum Discharge Transition (PPDT) patient safety module of the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM) across its member birthing institutions. The key objectives are to: 1) increase postpartum appointment attendance from 40%...
The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) awarded a $399,111 Project Grant under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). The grant aims to increase postpartum primary care engagement, quality, and experience by strengthening coordination between obstetric and primary care providers. The intervention includes default primary care visit scheduling,...
This $258,301 Project Grant award was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to develop and validate a new measure of patient-centered peripartum contraceptive care. The objective is to create the "Patient-Centeredness of Peripartum Birth Control Counseling (PPBC)" measure, which will assess the patient experience of contraceptive care during pregnancy and...
The Department of Health Care Finance (DHCF), the state Medicaid agency for the District of Columbia, was awarded a 10-year, $17M Cooperative Agreement under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) Transforming Maternal Health (TMaH) Model (CFDA 93.869). Through this funding, DHCF aims to improve maternal health outcomes and address disparities by investing in essential care delivery infrastructure, incentivizing providers to address beneficiaries' physical, behavioral, and...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) totaling $692,141 will fund research to address employment-related barriers to prenatal care for minoritized pregnant patients. The primary awardee, Duke University, will develop and pilot test the PROMOTE (Provider Remote Obstetric-related Employment Education) intervention to educate obstetric clinicians on federal employment...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under the Transforming Maternal Health (TMaH) Model (CFDA 93.869) provides $2,000,000.00 in funding to the California Department of Health Care Services to transform the state's maternal health delivery system and advance equitable birthing care for Medicaid members. The 10-year project aims to improve maternal health outcomes by expanding interprofessional care workforces, investing in data...
This Project Grant award, with Federal Grant Award ID K23HD113841, was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The $512,244 award supports the development and pilot testing of a pediatric clinic-based postpartum contraception intervention. The primary objectives are to: 1) qualitatively assess intervention preferences for postpartum contraceptive services among women...
The Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded Northwestern University a $4,122,304 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) on September 23, 2022. The grant will fund the implementation and testing of the Supporting Transitions to Primary Care Among Under-Resourced, Postpartum Women strategy through August 31, 2025. Commonly known as STEP-UP,...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (CFDA 93.279 - Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs) totaling $945,397 provides funding to the Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation, with a sub-award to the University of Pittsburgh, to adapt and evaluate a collaborative care model (CCM) for treating pregnant persons with opioid use disorder (OUD) in low-resource obstetric settings. The key objectives are to: 1) adapt the CCM for rural and low-resource...