S 2373 — Rural MOMS Act

Bill Text

• Introduced Introduced in Senate Current html July 31, 2019

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The bill amends the Public Health Service Act to enhance maternal and obstetric care specifically in rural areas.

• 42 U.S.C. 241

  (e) The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall expand, intensify, and coordinate the activities of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with respect to maternal mortality and morbidity.

  This adds a directive for the Secretary to coordinate CDC activities to focus on maternal mortality and morbidity.

• 42 U.S.C. 242s(b)(1)

  biological, → sociocultural (race, ethnicity, language, class, income), including among American Indians and Alaska Natives, as such terms are defined in section 4 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, and geographic contexts,

  This expands the focus on women's health conditions to include sociocultural factors affecting health.

• 42 U.S.C. 247b-12(b)(2)

  (M) an examination of the relationship between maternal health services in rural areas and outcomes in delivery and postpartum care;

  This adds a requirement to examine the relationship between maternal health services in rural areas and delivery/postpartum outcomes.

• 42 U.S.C. 287d(b)

  (4) carry out paragraphs (1) and (2) with respect to pregnancy, with priority given to deaths related to pregnancy;

  This adds a focus on pregnancy-related deaths in the research agenda of the Office of Research on Women's Health.

• 42 U.S.C. 287d(d)(4)(A)(iv)

  , including maternal mortality and other maternal morbidity outcomes

  This expands the reporting of the Advisory Committee to include maternal outcomes.

• 42 U.S.C. 247b-13a

  SEC. 317L-2. RURAL OBSTETRIC NETWORK GRANTS.

  This establishes a new section for rural obstetric network grants aimed at improving maternal health outcomes.

• 42 U.S.C. 247b-13a

  For the purpose of enabling the Secretary (through grants, contracts, or otherwise), acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to establish collaborative improvement and innovation networks (referred to in this section as `rural obstetric networks') to improve outcomes in birth and maternal morbidity and mortality, there is appropriated to the Secretary, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $3,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2020 through 2024.

  This allocates funding for establishing rural obstetric networks aimed at improving maternal health outcomes.

• 42 U.S.C. 254c-14(f)(1)(B)(iii)

  (XIII) Providers of maternal, including prenatal, labor and birth, and postpartum care services and entities operation obstetric care units.

  This adds obstetric care providers to the list of eligible entities for telehealth grants.

• 42 U.S.C. 254c-14(i)(1)(B)

  labor and birth, postpartum,

  This expands the focus of telehealth services to include labor and birth, and postpartum services.

• 42 U.S.C. 254c-14(k)(1)(B)

  equipment useful for caring for pregnant women and individuals, including ultrasound machines and fetal monitoring equipment,

  This expands the types of equipment eligible for funding under telehealth programs.

Action History

1. July 31, 2019

   Introduced in Senate

2. July 31, 2019

   Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Sponsors

• Tina Smith · Primary

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