New Mexico Rural Health Care Delivery Fund (RHCDF)

Elisa Wrede
505.231.2630
nmhsd.oos@hsd.nm.gov

The New Mexico Human Services Department will offer funding to support rural healthcare facilities and providers in New Mexico, allowing for the ability to increase access to services such as primary care, behavioral health, maternal/child health, and others.

Priority is given to applications designed to defray operating losses and start-up costs of rural healthcare providers and facilities that provide new or expanded services in rural New Mexico counties. Eligible applicants can receive funding to cover expenses related to operations, personnel, equipment, and other start-up costs, helping ensure that rural New Mexicans have access to the care they need. Service creation or expansion includes (but is not limited to) inpatient, outpatient, primary, specialty, behavioral health, long-term care, and developmental disabilities services.

Eligible participants are licensed healthcare facilities and providers providing a new and/or expanded health care services to residents in rural counties of New Mexico.

Applicants must be a Medicaid Enrolled Provider and actively serve New Mexico Medicaid recipients.

Eligibility requires service delivery to be in counties with populations of 100,000 or fewer.

Applicants may request amounts to cover start-up costs, defrayed operating losses for new or expanded services, or for the provision of a new or expanded service.

Estimated total program funding: $46,000,000

Links to additional guidance, application instructions, and the online application portal are available on the program website when applications are being accepted.

Applicant webinar recording