HRSA Updates Rural Health Reporting with Focus on Moms' Care
Published Date: 4/7/2026
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Summary
HRSA is updating how it collects info from rural health programs to make reporting easier and more useful. This affects folks running rural health outreach grants, with new questions added—especially about moms’ health. They want your thoughts by June 8, 2026, before sending the changes to the budget office.
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 3 costs, 0 mixed.
New Maternal Health Measures Added
HRSA is adding nine new maternal health measures (four required and five optional) that apply only to the 11 award recipients in the Healthy Rural Hometown Initiative Track. These new measures are part of the revised Rural Health Care Services Outreach performance measures referenced in OMB No. 0906-0009.
New Sustainability Question and Form Reorganization
HRSA's revised data collection consolidates three sub-sections into two new sub-sections (Capacity/Organizational Information and Access/Population Demographics) and adds one new question about sustainability to the Outreach performance measures. The revisions are intended to improve clarity and ease of reporting for respondents.
Expanded Cohort Raises Reporting Burden
The revised ICR expands the cohort to include 40 Regular Outreach Track recipients and 18 Healthy Rural Hometown Initiative Track recipients (awarded under HRSA-25-038), for a total of 58 respondents. HRSA estimates total annual burden of 507.5 hours, averaging 8.75 hours per respondent.
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