The Rural Health Association of Tennessee is celebrating good news! We are elated to share that we have received HRSA’s Delta Regional Maternal Care Coordination Program! We are proud to be one of 5 awardees from the Delta Region, including Methodist Le Bonheur in Memphis, who we’ve had the pleasure of working with through the Community Health Worker Apprenticeship program with Vanderbilt School of Nursing.

This grant will allow us to further sustain and expand our Maternal Health Program that uses RHA’s Rural Workforce model to recruit, train, and upskill Doulas. If you would like to follow our Maternal Health work, please subscribe to our Maternal Health Newsletter (coming in January/monthly) and/or our Rural Health Digest sent twice a month.

We also hope to see each of you at our Annual Conference this November 20th-22nd in Knoxville, Tennessee. Our agenda this year will have a Maternal Health “pre-conference” and “learning track” in addition to pre-conference and tracks for Hospitals and Clinics, School Health, Mental and Behavioral Health, and Public Health. We’ll be celebrating 30 years as an organization, National Rural Health Day, and 5-8 CHW Apprentice Graduates!