Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Funding
Texas List of Award Recipients
Presents information on applications for the Rural Texas Strong Program, the state's Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), showing contract status of intent to award or awarded.
Date: 10/2026
Sponsoring organization: Texas Health and Human Services
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Presents information on applications for the Rural Texas Strong Program, the state's Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), showing contract status of intent to award or awarded.
Date: 10/2026
Sponsoring organization: Texas Health and Human Services
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Addressing Behavioral Health Needs in Rural North Carolina: A Community Paramedicine Approach
Profiles a mobile integrated healthcare-community paramedicine (MIH-CP) model in rural western North Carolina that supports rural residents with complex medical, behavioral health, and social needs. Discusses the MIH-CP's behavioral healthcare staffing, funding, and services, providing implementation strategies for rural areas interested in expanding sustainable community paramedicine services.
Author(s): Ashley Jasko
Date: 10/2026
Sponsoring organization: Center for Health Care Strategies
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Profiles a mobile integrated healthcare-community paramedicine (MIH-CP) model in rural western North Carolina that supports rural residents with complex medical, behavioral health, and social needs. Discusses the MIH-CP's behavioral healthcare staffing, funding, and services, providing implementation strategies for rural areas interested in expanding sustainable community paramedicine services.
Author(s): Ashley Jasko
Date: 10/2026
Sponsoring organization: Center for Health Care Strategies
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Leveraging the Community-Based Workforce to Strengthen Behavioral Health Care in Rural Tennessee
Profiles River Valley Health (RVH), a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) and Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) that serves rural communities in eastern Tennessee. Discusses how a community-based workforce can provide more accessible and responsive behavioral healthcare in rural areas. Includes staffing models and funding strategies for sustainability.
Author(s): Christopher Menschner
Date: 10/2026
Sponsoring organization: Center for Health Care Strategies
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Profiles River Valley Health (RVH), a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) and Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) that serves rural communities in eastern Tennessee. Discusses how a community-based workforce can provide more accessible and responsive behavioral healthcare in rural areas. Includes staffing models and funding strategies for sustainability.
Author(s): Christopher Menschner
Date: 10/2026
Sponsoring organization: Center for Health Care Strategies
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RHTP Obligated Funds Report
Presents information on Rural Health Transformation Program funding states have obligated to state agencies, contractors and vendors, community partners, hospitals, and others as of July 31, 2026. Updated quarterly.
Date: 10/2026
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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Presents information on Rural Health Transformation Program funding states have obligated to state agencies, contractors and vendors, community partners, hospitals, and others as of July 31, 2026. Updated quarterly.
Date: 10/2026
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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Food Access and Mobility Toolkit
A toolkit that discusses the relationship between food security and mobility on health outcomes, focusing on older adults, people with disabilities, and low-income or rural populations who may have limited access to transportation. Provides strategies to improve mobility and food security, such as transportation and program integration, healthy food initiatives, federal funding braiding, connecting people with benefits to services, and more. Includes links to resources and program examples focused on rural areas.
Date: 10/2026
Sponsoring organization: Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility Technical Assistance Center
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A toolkit that discusses the relationship between food security and mobility on health outcomes, focusing on older adults, people with disabilities, and low-income or rural populations who may have limited access to transportation. Provides strategies to improve mobility and food security, such as transportation and program integration, healthy food initiatives, federal funding braiding, connecting people with benefits to services, and more. Includes links to resources and program examples focused on rural areas.
Date: 10/2026
Sponsoring organization: Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility Technical Assistance Center
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Rural Health Transformation Program: Early Implementation Actions and Monitoring Plans
Provides an overview of actions taken by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to establish the Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program, including how state applications were reviewed and scored; how CMS plans to determine future funding allotments; and the circumstances under which CMS may withhold, reduce, or recover a state's funding. Describes how CMS plans to monitor state RHT Program activities.
Additional links: Full Report
Date: 10/2026
Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
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Provides an overview of actions taken by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to establish the Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program, including how state applications were reviewed and scored; how CMS plans to determine future funding allotments; and the circumstances under which CMS may withhold, reduce, or recover a state's funding. Describes how CMS plans to monitor state RHT Program activities.
Additional links: Full Report
Date: 10/2026
Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
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Kentucky Rural Health Transformation Executed Contracts by Contract Start Date
Lists all awards and contracts executed as part of Kentucky's Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP). Presents information on each award and contract including start and end dates, associated RHTP initiative, area development districts covered, contract amounts, and more.
Date: 09/2026
Sponsoring organization: Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services
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Lists all awards and contracts executed as part of Kentucky's Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP). Presents information on each award and contract including start and end dates, associated RHTP initiative, area development districts covered, contract amounts, and more.
Date: 09/2026
Sponsoring organization: Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services
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Growing the Rural Physician Workforce Through Graduate Medical Education
Describes ways in which state and federal initiatives are working to expand rural medical training in North Carolina. Features statistics on physician residency programs with rural and community health center sites from 2008-2024.
Author(s): Emily M. Hawes, Mukesh Adhikari, Mark Holmes, et al.
Citation: North Carolina Medical Journal, 87(3)
Date: 09/2026
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Describes ways in which state and federal initiatives are working to expand rural medical training in North Carolina. Features statistics on physician residency programs with rural and community health center sites from 2008-2024.
Author(s): Emily M. Hawes, Mukesh Adhikari, Mark Holmes, et al.
Citation: North Carolina Medical Journal, 87(3)
Date: 09/2026
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North Carolina Rural Health and Opportunities for Transformation
Issue of the North Carolina Medical Journal, containing articles describing successes in North Carolina rural health and ways in which obstacles are being addressed. Topics include data collection, graduate medical education, emergency care, affordability, the Rural Health Transformation Program, AI, and more.
Citation: North Carolina Medical Journal, 87(3)
Date: 09/2026
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Issue of the North Carolina Medical Journal, containing articles describing successes in North Carolina rural health and ways in which obstacles are being addressed. Topics include data collection, graduate medical education, emergency care, affordability, the Rural Health Transformation Program, AI, and more.
Citation: North Carolina Medical Journal, 87(3)
Date: 09/2026
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The SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act of 2025: Section-by-Section Summary
Provides a section-by-section description of the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act (P.L. 119-44). Includes background information and a summary of each provision. Table 1 presents expired authorizations and appropriations in the SUPPORT Act of 2018, related annual appropriations, and whether the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act reauthorized each provision.
Date: 09/2026
Sponsoring organization: Congressional Research Service
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Provides a section-by-section description of the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act (P.L. 119-44). Includes background information and a summary of each provision. Table 1 presents expired authorizations and appropriations in the SUPPORT Act of 2018, related annual appropriations, and whether the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act reauthorized each provision.
Date: 09/2026
Sponsoring organization: Congressional Research Service
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