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Special Sunday Bonus Edition: Resources for $50B Rural Health Transformation Funding Opportunity
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- Oct 12, 2025
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Summary
As you all know by now, CMS has launched one of the most ambitious rural-health initiatives in decades. The Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program will distribute up to $50 billion through FY 2026-2030 to help states redesign how rural care is delivered—funding prevention, workforce pipelines, and digital access. We’ve been digging into the details and getting as much insight to share as possible. On Friday of last week (10/10/25) we had a live Zoom call that included a slew of stakeholders from ag, food and healthcare. We have included the Zoom above. We plan to hold one more zoom this week. In the meantime, we’ve created a shared drive where we will be updating information as it is received Google Drive . In addition to the program materials and state links and more, we have added a document DRAFT “State Language Framework - Crowd Source Document” that is designed to become a succinct set of language to be used to provide to your state officials or any other contacts helpful. We welcome this group to “crowd source” this document but have some ground rules (some are redundant to details in the How To Engage section): * MUST BE VENDOR AGNOSTIC * Clearly articulate the scoring impact, specifying each measure and points * Make it quantifiable (we are revising what we have created to do just that) * MUST be sustainable without grant $$ * Please enhance and/or add new bullets/sections, don’t delete what is there The specifics of what we suggest are found in the How To Engage Section below. Who’s driving it Health and Human Services (HHS) is leading the charge via Centers for Medicaid and Medicare (CMS), the HHS department responsible for program funding decisions and program oversight * Alina Czekai , Director, Office of Rural Health Transformation * Kate Sapra , Acting…