Texas Rural Health Facility Capital Improvement Program

Nicole Caston
512.463.7178
Grants@TexasAgriculture.gov

Technical assistance:
SORHTX@TexasAgriculture.gov

The Texas State Office of Rural Health awards funds for rural public and nonprofit hospitals to make capital improvements to existing facilities, construct new health facilities, or to purchase capital equipment.

Allowable expenses include activities that further, or sustain, a hospital's ability to provide healthcare to include:

• Life safety code violations such as unsafe flooring, food safety, new fire sprinkler system, and upgrades to meet new code requirements
• Patient care projects such as mammography equipment, X-Ray machine, lab equipment, ambulance, or community paramedicine van
• Repairs/remodeling/maintenance projects including hospital or outbuildings, remodel projects, and additions
• Other contracts for non-medical services such as designing, engineering, supervising, surveying, and other expenses incidental to the acquisition, construction, or improvements of new hospitals

Public and nonprofit hospitals located in rural counties in Texas are eligible to apply. To qualify as a rural county, the county population must be 150,000 or less or contains a geographic area that is not delineated as urbanized by the federal Census Bureau.

Up to $100,000

Applicants must provide matching funds in the amount of at least 10% of the funds requested.

Links to the application instructions and the online application are available on the program website.