HRSA awards $360 million for maternal, child health programs
The Health Resources and Services Administration today awarded states, territories and nonprofit organizations $341 million in fiscal year 2020 funding for the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, which provides voluntary home visiting services to pregnant women and parents with young children.
The agency also awarded $16 million in FY 2020 funds to help states develop and implement innovative approaches to address disparities in maternal health and outcomes
Related News Articles
Headline
A new blog, part of the Keeping Care Close to Home initiative, discusses how connected care networks are essential to sustaining rural maternal care. The blog…
Blog
When the American Hospital Association launched the Keeping Care Close to Home: Innovations in Rural Maternal Health project in 2025, we set out to understand…
Headline
The Department of Health and Human Services Oct. 9 announced the launch of its Newborn Essentials Support Toolkit Program, which, through partnership with the…
Headline
A study by the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center found that between 2007 and 2023, the percentage of midwife-attended births rose in…
Headline
As part of the AHA’s Opportunities for Innovations in Rural Maternal Care initiative, a recent Commonwealth Fund blog discusses strategies hospitals can use to…
Headline
In part three of the AHA’s special Advancing Health podcast series, hear how hospitals are using technology-enabled care and strong regional partnerships to…