Sunday, May 5, 2024
5/5/2024
Applicant Organization Information: Applicant Organization: Avera McKennan; Address: 1325 S. Cliff, Sioux Falls, SD 57117-5045; Facility Type: Hospital; Website: www.avera.org Designated Project Director Information: Project Director: Juanita Ruiter; Phone Number: 605-322-8945; Email: Juanita.Ruiter@avera.org RMOMS Project: Title: RMOMS SD: Leveraging data, partnerships and integrated perinatal care to improve health equity among birthing people in South Dakota (RMOMS-SD); Project Goal: The RMOMS-SD program will leverage telehealth solutions and data-informed decision making to create a care pathway that improves the quality of care for expecting patients to deliver healthy babies through a cost-neutral or cost-saving and sustainable model. Funds requested: Y1: $1,000,000; Y2: $1,000,000; Y3: $1,000,000; Y4: $1,000,000 Network Composition: The project will establish Network of partners including Avera’s regional rural facilities, Avera@Home, Rural Health Care, Inc. (FQHC), South Dakota Urban Indian Health (FQHC), the state Department of Health (home visiting program) and state Department of Social Services (state Medicaid Agency), as well as two rural facilities with low delivery volumes, Milbank Area Hospital and Avera St. Benedict Hospital (CAH) and a data consultant. All 13 Network members have signed an attached MOA. Target Service Area: The primary target service area includes the rural counties of Brown, Davison, Grant, Hughes, Hutchinson, and Yankton in eastern South Dakota. A secondary target service area includes 47 rural counties comprising the rest of Avera’s South Dakota footprint as well as the counties that are home to the state’s nine tribal communities. Target population: rural pregnant patients over the age of 18 in eastern South Dakota and surrounding tribal communities who have significant barriers to obstetrics services and access care at a local facilities. Capacity to Serve Rural Underserved Populations: Avera McK ennan is the flagship facility of Avera Health, a nonprofit, regional, vertically integrated health care delivery network also based in Sioux Falls, SD. Avera is a leader in rural healthcare and prioritizes increasing access to quality, cost-effective health care services to ensure rural South Dakotans can receive care close to home. All Network partners have locations based in rural counties (the primary target service area) and a demonstrated history of serving the state’s rural populations. The majority of Avera’s service area is entirely rural counties. Project Activity: Program interventions include: remote patient monitoring telehealth for rural patients and delivery centers, care coordination and service aggregation, statewide wraparound services, and a social determinants of health screening program. Expected outcomes include increasing access to obstetrics services, improving related clinical outcomes, and facilitating the development of a robust data and evaluation program that helps partners better understand and address OB needs in the region. Funding Preference: Avera McKennan is requesting a funding preference as the majority of the counties in the proposed service area are in a designated HPSA. Special Consideration: Avera McKennan is requesting special consideration based on the inclusion of a signed MOU that includes the state Medicaid agency.
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