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This bill, the Rural Maternal and Obstetric Modernization of Services Act (or the Rural MOMS Act), aims to improve maternal health outcomes in rural areas. The key provisions of this bill include: 1. Expanding initiatives to address maternal health in rural areas, including providing funding for the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to establish rural obstetric networks to improve outcomes in birth and maternal morbidity. 2. Requiring these rural obstetric networks to connect individuals with care providers, identify successful maternal-care models, facilitate collaboration among rural providers, provide training and guidance, collaborate with academic institutions, and measure and address inequities in birth outcomes. 3. Authorizing HRSA to award five-year demonstration program grants to train physicians, medical residents, and other practitioners to provide maternal and obstetric services in rural communities, as well as support academic programs that develop or provide training to improve maternal care in rural areas. 4. Adding maternal-health services as part of the telehealth network and telehealth resource-centers grant programs. 5. Making changes to the research and reporting requirements of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Government Accountability Office with respect to data on maternal-health outcomes in rural areas.

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