Delta Region Maternal Care Coordination Program

For programmatic or technical questions:
Nikita Patel
301.594.3288
DeltaMCCProgram@hrsa.gov

For business, administrative, or fiscal questions:
Marie Mehaffey
301.443.0655
Mmehaffey@hrsa.gov

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The Delta Region Maternal Care Coordination Program offers funding to improve and increase access to care for pregnant women and new mothers during and after pregnancy.

Program objectives:

• Use care coordination strategies to enhance and expand access to and coordination of perinatal services in the Delta Region through a strong network of entities that represent the spectrum of care during and after pregnancy
• Utilize evidence-based, promising practice and/or value-based care model(s) in the planning and delivery of perinatal services
• Identify barriers to providing maternal healthcare in the region and strategies for addressing such barriers
• Develop and implement deliberate and sustainable strategies of care coordination into policies, procedures, staffing, services, and communication systems

Examples of activities:

• Provide outreach and education to pregnant women and new mothers on healthy nutrition to reduce risk of hypertension
• Provide screening and referral of mental health issues
• Refer pregnant women and new mothers to online or local support groups
• Recruitment of doula and midwifery services, community health workers, and/or maternal fetal specialist services
• Support patient care through telehealth
• Support travel costs, as necessary, of maternal health specialist to travel to pregnant woman
• Provide education and social support for pregnant women through the development of centering pregnancy (group prenatal care) visits
• Provide resources and education to support in-home hypertension management and blood pressure self-monitoring and reporting
• Support mobile prenatal and postpartum care visits for pregnant women and new mothers
• Utilize development dyad models (mother and infant) to support combined postpartum and infant checkup visits
• Support childcare for pregnant women and new mothers during prenatal and postpartum care visits

Eligibility criteria:

• Be a domestic public or private, nonprofit or for-profit entity located in the Delta region, with demonstrated experience serving, or the capacity to serve, rural and underserved populations
• Represent a network that includes at least three or more healthcare providers that may be rural, urban, nonprofit, or for-profit entities
• Have not previously received a grant for the same or similar project unless the entity is proposing to expand the scope of the project or the area that will be served through the project

Award ceiling: $450,000
Project period: 4 years
Estimated number of awards: 4
Estimated total program funding: $1,800,000

Links to the full announcement, application instructions, and the online application process are available through grants.gov.