RHTCMS332060
Cooperative Agreement
Overview
Grant Description
Alabama Rural Health Transformation Program - Implement statewide sustainable rural healthcare initiatives that support the goals of the program by transforming the healthcare delivery ecosystem.
Alabama Rural Health Transformation Program (ARHTP) State of Alabama, Director of the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA) as its AOR subrecipients: to be determined.
Total budget request: $1 billion.
Purpose and outcomes through its RHTP, Alabama aims to modernize and integrate its rural health system to ensure equitable, efficient, and sustainable access to high-quality care.
The program is designed to:
• Enhance health information technology (IT) and cybersecurity through regional shared-service hubs supporting electronic health record (EHR) integration and compliance.
• Expand access to care via telehealth, remote monitoring, and regional specialty networks.
• Address maternal and cancer care deserts through digital regionalization and mobile screening models.
• Strengthen the healthcare workforce through rural training pipelines, simulation training programs, and expanded graduate medical education (GME) opportunities.
• Improve behavioral health access by converting community mental health centers into certified community behavioral health clinics (CCBHCs).
Project design and activities Alabama will use the funds from the RHTP to implement eleven interrelated initiatives statewide:
• Collaborative EHR, IT, and cybersecurity: regional IT hubs supporting EHR integration, IT infrastructure, and security.
• Rural health: statewide telehealth/teleconsult network for specialty access.
• Maternal and fetal health: digital obstetric regionalization and telerobotic ultrasound.
• Rural workforce: physician, nurse, emergency medical service (EMS), midwife, dentist, and dental hygienist and dental assistant training programs.
• Cancer digital regionalization: mobile and regional cancer screening.
• Simulation training: specialty-based simulation education expansion.
• Statewide EMS trauma and stroke: improving the statewide EMS diversion and routing system.
• Emergency medical service (EMS) treat-in-place: EMS pilot for on-site treatment of low-acuity patients.
• Mental health: behavioral health facility conversion and expansion.
• Community medicine: mobile wellness and nutrition units.
• Rural health practice: networked clinics integrating behavioral, physical, and dental health.
Alabama Rural Health Transformation Program (ARHTP) State of Alabama, Director of the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA) as its AOR subrecipients: to be determined.
Total budget request: $1 billion.
Purpose and outcomes through its RHTP, Alabama aims to modernize and integrate its rural health system to ensure equitable, efficient, and sustainable access to high-quality care.
The program is designed to:
• Enhance health information technology (IT) and cybersecurity through regional shared-service hubs supporting electronic health record (EHR) integration and compliance.
• Expand access to care via telehealth, remote monitoring, and regional specialty networks.
• Address maternal and cancer care deserts through digital regionalization and mobile screening models.
• Strengthen the healthcare workforce through rural training pipelines, simulation training programs, and expanded graduate medical education (GME) opportunities.
• Improve behavioral health access by converting community mental health centers into certified community behavioral health clinics (CCBHCs).
Project design and activities Alabama will use the funds from the RHTP to implement eleven interrelated initiatives statewide:
• Collaborative EHR, IT, and cybersecurity: regional IT hubs supporting EHR integration, IT infrastructure, and security.
• Rural health: statewide telehealth/teleconsult network for specialty access.
• Maternal and fetal health: digital obstetric regionalization and telerobotic ultrasound.
• Rural workforce: physician, nurse, emergency medical service (EMS), midwife, dentist, and dental hygienist and dental assistant training programs.
• Cancer digital regionalization: mobile and regional cancer screening.
• Simulation training: specialty-based simulation education expansion.
• Statewide EMS trauma and stroke: improving the statewide EMS diversion and routing system.
• Emergency medical service (EMS) treat-in-place: EMS pilot for on-site treatment of low-acuity patients.
• Mental health: behavioral health facility conversion and expansion.
• Community medicine: mobile wellness and nutrition units.
• Rural health practice: networked clinics integrating behavioral, physical, and dental health.
Funding Goals
REFER TO NOFO
Grant Program (CFDA)
93.798
Funding Agency
Place of Performance
Alabama
United States
Geographic Scope
State-Wide
Related Opportunity
Alabama Department Of Economic And Community Affairs was awarded
Alabama Rural Health Transformation Program (ARHTP)
Cooperative Agreement RHTCMS332060
worth $203,404,327
from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in December 2026 with work to be completed primarily in Alabama United States.
The grant
has a duration of 4 years 10 months and
was awarded through assistance program 93.798 .
The Cooperative Agreement was awarded through grant opportunity Rural Health Transformation Program.
Status
(Ongoing)
Last Modified 1/5/26
Period of Performance
12/29/25
Start Date
10/30/30
End Date
Funding Split
$203.4M
Federal Obligation
$0.0
Non-Federal Obligation
$203.4M
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
RHTCMS332060
SAI Number
RHTCMS332060-293487236
Award ID URI
SAI UNAVAILABLE
Awardee Classifications
State Government
Awarding Office
75FCMC OFC OF ACQUISITION AND GRANTS MGMT
Funding Office
75FCME OFM – OFFICE OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT.
Awardee UEI
PQ3LJB9LMX63
Awardee CAGE
3M8C0
Performance District
AL-90
Senators
Tommy Tuberville
Katie Britt
Katie Britt
Modified: 1/5/26