The Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program helps State governments to support rural communities across America in improving healthcare access, quality, and outcomes by transforming the healthcare delivery ecosystem.
Donor Name: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/05/2025
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The RHT Program focuses on promoting innovation, strategic partnerships, infrastructure development, and workforce investment.
States will help rural communities meet these strategic goals:
- Make rural America healthy again
- Support rural health innovations and new access points to promote preventative health and address root causes of diseases. Projects will use evidence-based, outcomes-driven interventions to improve disease prevention, chronic disease management, behavioral health, and prenatal care.
- Sustainable access
- Help rural providers become long-term access points for care by improving efficiency and sustainability. With RHT Program support, rural facilities work together—or with high-quality regional systems—to share or coordinate operations, technology, primary and specialty care, and emergency services.
- Workforce development
- Attract and retain a high-skilled health care workforce by strengthening recruitment and retention of healthcare providers in rural communities. Help rural providers practice at the top of their license and develop a broader set of providers to serve a rural community’s needs, such as community health workers, pharmacists, and individuals trained to help patients navigate the healthcare system.
- Innovative care
- Spark the growth of innovative care models to improve health outcomes, coordinate care, and promote flexible care arrangements. Develop and implement payment mechanisms incentivizing providers or Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to reduce health care costs, improve quality of care, and shift care to lower cost settings.
- Tech innovation
- Foster use of innovative technologies that promote efficient care delivery, data security, and access to digital health tools by rural facilities, providers, and patients. Projects support access to remote care, improve data sharing, strengthen cybersecurity, and invest in emerging technologies.
Funding Information
Expected total funding for the program: $50 billion over five budget periods.
Eligibility Criteria
- In accordance with the authorizing statute, Section 71401 of Public Law 119-21, only the 50 U.S. States are eligible to receive an RHT Program award; the District of Columbia and U.S. Territories are not eligible.
- Local governments, hospitals, universities, nonprofits, federally recognized tribes, individuals, and any other entity besides one of the 50 States of the United States are also ineligible to receive an RHT Program award.
- All 50 U.S. States are eligible, even if they do not have a large rural population or any rural hospitals. They encourage every State to focus on how this funding could benefit its rural populations and consider applying.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
