accessFOR FQHCs & COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS
Specialty maternity care for the safety net.
Your health center is where the community turns first. Ouma brings maternal-fetal medicine, ultrasound interpretation, and behavioral health into your existing maternity program, so the patients you already care for stop falling through the cracks between visits and referrals.
The problem
The referral that never happens
Health centers see a disproportionately high-risk pregnancy population. With that risk comes hypertension, diabetes, and behavioral health needs that outgrow a generalist visit.
The standard answer is a referral to the MFM office an hour away. For a patient juggling an hourly job, bus fare, and child care, that appointment may as well not exist. Clinic leaders tell us more than half of these referrals are never completed.
One FQHC Patient
One pregnancy, sent five directions
- Prenatal Clinic40+ mile drive
- Maternal-Fetal MedicineHalf-day off work
- Ultrasound centerBus fare
- LaboratoryChild care
- Delivery HospitalWindshield time
Illustrative: each destination is a separate trip, and every trip carries its own cost in time and money.
How Ouma works inside a health center
Care that comes to your patients, not the other way around
MFM consultations
Board-certified maternal-fetal medicine physicians see your patients by telehealth, often same day. Patients connect from your exam room or from home, and notes return to your EHR within 24 hours.
Ultrasound interpretation
Specialist reads within 24 business hours for scans performed on site, following AIUM, SMFM, ACOG, and ISUOG standards. We also help train your sonographers to scan at the MFM level.
Behavioral health
Perinatal mental health care with an appointment in 2 to 3 days, not months. Every patient is screened, and a third of diagnoses are previously unrecognized.
Midwifery & diabetes support
Telemidwifery to extend prenatal capacity, and a diabetes-in-pregnancy program for the GDM your population carries.
The funding logic
Built for how health centers are funded
Your model is outpatient, encounter-based, and reported to your funders every year. Ouma fits inside it. We are a medical practice, not a platform license: no capital purchase, no hardware cart, no per-seat software fee.
Adding specialty maternity services also strengthens the story you take back to your funders. Health centers use added services to support scope and rate conversations, and MFM-level care is a service line very few centers can offer today. Centers in rural counties should also check Rural Health Transformation Program funding for maternal care, by state.
Proof
Proven in health centers like yours
Urban health center
<10%
referral no-show rate after on-site teleMFM
A large urban health center engaged Ouma after finding that most MFM referrals were never completed. With telehealth MFM on site, referral no-shows fell to under 10 percent.
Valley Healthcare · Columbus, GA
Restoring local maternity care
Valley Healthcare partnered with Ouma to restore local maternity care through telemidwifery and teleMFM, keeping expectant families in their own community for prenatal care.
Frequently asked
Common questions from health centers
Our partnerships team can walk through how Ouma deploys inside your maternity program.
Do our patients need commercial insurance to use Ouma?
Does Ouma replace our clinicians or take our patients?
What does implementation require?
Our community speaks many languages. Can you match that?
Which services do health centers usually start with?
Where do our patients deliver?
Let’s Talk
Bring subspecialty maternity care to your health center.
Tell us about your patient panel and we will design a program around it.
Expert maternity telehealth, extending the reach of subspecialty clinicians to every patient who needs it.