HRSA Announces $18 Million for State Maternal Health Innovation Program with Funding Secured by BMHC

October 10, 2024
Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announced $18 million in grant funding requested by the Black Maternal Health Caucus.

The funding, awarded through HRSA’s State Maternal Health Innovation (MHI) Program, will support 15 awardees in states across the country to help them establish maternal health task forces in their states, improve the collection and use of state-level data on maternal health, target interventions to reduce disparities, and boost the delivery of maternal health services.

The 15 awardees include Departments of Public Health and state offices of Health and Human Services, as well as universities, private hospitals, and medical centers. They are listed below:

  • North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, NC - $1,500,00
  • Oklahoma State Health Department, Oklahoma, OK - $1,000,000
  • New Jersey Department of Health, Trenton, NJ - $1,500,000
  • Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Helena, MT - $999,913
  • Iowa Department of Public Health, Des Moines, IA - $1,000,000
  • University of Illinois, Chicago, IL - $1,497,198
  • Indiana State Department of Health, Indianapolis, IN - $1,500,000
  • The Medical Center Foundation, Inc, Gainesville, GA - $1,500,000
  • Executive Office of the Governor of Delaware, Dover, DE - $819,395
  • Louisiana Department of Health, New Orleans, LA - $1,368,770
  • Vermont Agency of Human Services, Waterbury, VT - $1,000,000
  • Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Lebanon, NH - $992,282
  • Pennsylvania Department of Health, Harrisburg, PA - $1,500,000
  • South Dakota Department of Health, Pierre, SD - $997,235
  • SSM Health Care St. Louis, St. Louis, MO - $1,497,367 

As of April 2024, 41 states and the District of Columbia have received MHI grant funding since 2019. To learn more about the State Maternal Health Improvement Program, visit here.

The Black Maternal Health Caucus (BMHC) successfully secured $55 million in funding for the HRSA State Maternal Health Innovation program for Fiscal Year 2024.

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