State-based Perinatal Quality Collaboratives | CDC RFA DP17 1702

Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA DP17 1702

The State-based Perinatal Quality Collaboratives grant opportunity (CDC RFA DP17 1702) is a CDC cooperative agreement designed to strengthen and expand state perinatal quality collaboratives (PQCs). PQCs are statewide networks that bring together perinatal care providers, hospitals, and public health professionals to improve outcomes for pregnant people and newborns by using evidence-based clinical practices and continuous quality improvement methods. In practical terms, participating facilities use timely data to spot gaps in care, test and implement improvements in clinical workflows, and then measure whether those changes lead to better outcomes across the state.

A central aim of the program is to improve how state PQCs collect, analyze, and share near-real-time data so members can receive feedback that supports concrete changes in care delivery. The opportunity targets major maternal and newborn health priorities, including reducing maternal morbidity and mortality, improving the appropriate use of progesterone to prevent preterm birth, increasing appropriate antenatal corticosteroid use to support fetal lung maturity when preterm birth is anticipated, improving care for infants affected by neonatal abstinence syndrome, and reducing medically unnecessary cesarean deliveries. The emphasis is not only on choosing the right clinical interventions, but also on building the state-level systems that help hospitals and clinicians adopt those interventions consistently and at scale.

The funding structure includes two modules. Module A focuses on states where PQCs are still developing or expanding their operational capacity. Funding under Module A supports PQCs in actively conducting perinatal quality improvement projects, disseminating data and findings across the state, broadening the scope of projects to address a wider set of maternal and neonatal health issues, and increasing the share of participating hospitals so the collaborative better reflects statewide care rather than a limited subset of facilities. The idea is to move PQCs from early-stage organization into sustained, statewide improvement engines with strong participation and reliable performance measurement.

Module B funds a national coordinating center for the National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (NNPQC), a nationwide network intended to support and connect state PQCs. The coordinating center is responsible for organizing NNPQC activities and strengthening state PQCs through technical assistance, formal mentoring, and capacity-building support, particularly for the states funded under Module A. Module B also aims to develop a core set of national leaders who can serve as a consultative resource for PQCs across the country, helping spread effective strategies and standard approaches to quality improvement in perinatal care.

Administratively, this opportunity is a discretionary cooperative agreement under CFDA 93.946, offered by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), within NCCDPHP. Eligible applicants are state governments (and the notice indicates eligibility is otherwise unrestricted within that category, subject to any clarifications in the full announcement). The award ceiling listed is $200,000, with an expected six awards. The opportunity was created February 23, 2017, with an original closing date of April 24, 2017 (applications due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).

Finally, the announcement notes that this program builds on prior CDC investment in PQCs under CDC-RFA-DP14-1404, which previously limited competition to state health departments or their bona fide agents. That earlier effort reportedly led to meaningful gains in PQC capacity and improvements in perinatal care processes and outcomes, and this funding opportunity is positioned as a continuation and expansion of that progress, with added emphasis on statewide reach and national coordination through the NNPQC.

• The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control - NCCDPHP in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "State-based Perinatal Quality Collaboratives" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.946.
• This funding opportunity was created on Feb 23, 2017.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 24, 2017 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $200,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 6 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.

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