(Atlantic) Cass Health in Atlantic was one of three Iowa hospitals awarded Iowa’s Centers of Excellence Program grant.
Governor Kim Reynolds and the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services announced the awardees today.
Cass Health’s Centers of Excellence will offer services in Adams, Adair, Audubon, Cass, and Montgomery counties. Their program aims to improve rural maternal health services in southwest Iowa. This regional partnership will provide women in these communities with maternal health services, including prenatal and postnatal care that they would not have access to otherwise. Sustaining and growing OB outreach clinics in this rural region aims to reduce transportation and financial resource barriers. This will increase routine access to prenatal and postnatal care.
The other awardees were Mahaska Health and Van Buren County Hospital.
Each awardee will receive up to $250,000 per year for three years. Contracts will be established with each awardee later this month to begin this work.
