access- Year-one award
- $218,862,170
- Lead agency
- Dept. of Community Health
- Maternal care in the plan
- Puts a dollar figure on maternal care
- Status
- Awarded; telehealth round withdrawn
What Georgia's plan funds for maternal care
The Department of Community Health leads the program, which received $218.9 million for year one. Initiative 3 carries the maternal work. Strengthening Perinatal Systems of Care, $3.6 million in year one and $12.6 million over five years, led by the Department of Public Health, will "provide fully stocked, mobile, color-coded obstetrical emergency carts to aid in urgent or unexpected delivery needs," stocked for hemorrhage and preeclampsia, with neonatal resuscitation equipment and job aids, with the aim of "equipping both delivery and non-delivery hospitals around rural Georgia with the tools needed to safely deliver babies and protect mothers." Rural Telepsychiatry, $2.95 million in year one and $14.75 million over five years, expands the Department of Public Health's PEACE for Moms program of provider-to-provider perinatal psychiatry consultations for OBs, "with on-demand consultations within a 30-minute response time."
The plan also proposed a $10 million Telehealth Enhancements line to build "a statewide network through a multi-hub architecture," with local hospitals as the primary anchors for patient care. DCH has withdrawn that year-one opportunity. Its notice says "Year 1 allocations for this specific initiative will not be awarded at this time" and that the department "fully intends to revisit and restructure this telehealth funding opportunity in subsequent RHTP funding years."
What is open, and what comes next
Nothing maternal is open. The perinatal carts went to the Georgia Hospital Association and PEACE for Moms to the Department of Public Health without a competitive round, and DCH announced on August 27, 2026 that all year-one awards were fully committed.
One current round touches obstetrics: a rural graduate medical education development grant, open September 15 to October 15, 2026, offers up to $3 million per award to residency programs serving Georgia's 126 rural counties, "prioritizing high-need specialties critical to rural health such as family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN, general surgery, geriatrics, or psychiatry." Year two's budget period runs October 31, 2026 to October 30, 2027, and the state expects CMS to set its year-two amount in October. The GREAT Health Advisory Council meets October 6.
Who can apply, and where a partner fits
Georgia's competitive rounds so far were for rural hospitals in 126 eligible counties. For year two, the openings a telehealth practice should watch are the telehealth hub opportunity when DCH restructures it, and the 87 hospitals in the AHEAD pre-implementation group. Hospitals that don't deliver babies but now hold an obstetric emergency cart still need someone to call when a patient arrives in labor.
Where Ouma fits
How tele-MFM fits Georgia's model
An emergency cart stabilizes a mother. It doesn't decide what happens next. Georgia has equipped rural emergency departments for obstetric emergencies without adding obstetric specialists, and that is where consult coverage belongs. Ouma provides contracted maternal-fetal medicine coverage and ultrasound interpretation to rural and critical access hospitals, including hospitals that don't deliver babies: a pregnant patient in distress often arrives at the nearest emergency department, and Ouma's physicians take those consult calls at any hour. Ouma is licensed to practice in all 50 states and is Medicaid-enrolled in 20 states as of August 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
Did Georgia run a perinatal RFP?
No. Strengthening Perinatal Systems of Care was awarded to the Georgia Hospital Association and PEACE for Moms to the Department of Public Health directly.
What happened to the statewide telehealth hub network?
DCH withdrew the $10 million year-one opportunity and says it intends to restructure it in a later funding year.
Is any year-one money left?
No. The state announced on August 27, 2026 that all year-one GREAT Health awards were fully committed.