Grant Amount
$1,000,000
Priority Area
Primary Care
Date Awarded
Spring 2025
Region
Statewide
Status
In Progress
In 2025, NYHealth awarded nearly $1 million in grants to a cohort of organizations across New York State to advance maternal health equity for Black New Yorkers and other New Yorkers of color through primary and preventive care.
Maternal death and serious complications, particularly among Black women and birthing people, are among the most persistent racial health disparities. While pregnancy and childbirth can be a time of joy, too many women and birthing people of color lack access to empowering, whole-person care that promotes safe and healthy pregnancies.
Nearly three out of four pregnancy-related deaths are preventable. Primary care offers a critical opportunity to address maternal health disparities and coordinate care before, during, and, especially, after pregnancy—when more than half of deaths occur. However, primary care is currently underutilized.
In 2025, NYHealth issued its inaugural Request for Proposals (RFP), “Primary Care: Advancing Maternal Health Equity Through Primary and Preventive Care”, to address racial disparities through high-quality primary care, preventive care, and/or community linkages to care. NYHealth’s focus on maternal health equity reflects our commitment to ensure primary care drives improved health outcomes and advances health equity for communities of color.
Through this RFP, NYHealth is supporting the organizations listed below to identify racial disparities in maternal health care and outcomes, use primary and preventive care to reduce those disparities, and measure progress to improve racial health equity. Funded projects will meaningfully engage communities and patients in the process.
Grant recipients are: