RHTCMS332089
Cooperative Agreement
Overview
Grant Description
Strengthen rural communities across New Jersey by improving their health through transformation of the healthcare delivery ecosystem.
- New Jersey is home to over 1 million rural residents, who live in eleven of our twenty-one counties: Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Hunterdon, Mercer, Monmouth, Ocean, Salem, Sussex, and Warren.
Our rural New Jerseyans live in 40 federally-designed “rural census tracts” and in 7 state-designated “rural” counties.
Rural New Jerseyans are more likely to live in areas facing a healthcare workforce shortage, experience more SUD-related health impacts, and are less likely to make it to an annual pediatric well-visit appointment.
The Division of Medical Assistance and Health Service (DMAHS) is the state’s Medicaid agency and is applying on behalf of New Jersey to receive $1 billion in federal funding through the Rural Health Transformation Program.
If awarded, this funding would strengthen our state’s ability to direct resources and focus towards transforming the healthcare of rural New Jerseyans over the next five years.
DMAHS has been working closely with NJ’s State Office of Rural Health and other stakeholders for this application—and will continue to do so to achieve our goals of building our rural-serving healthcare workforce, and adapting care delivery to be responsive to rural residents’ wishes and needs.
We propose directing funding in five initiatives areas:
1. RHT1 supports recruitment, training, and retention of clinical and non-clinical providers.
2. RHT2 provides funding for essential providers of behavioral health (CCBHCS), primary care (FQHCS), and emergency medical services (hospitals).
3. RHT3 encourages regional partnerships to strengthen care delivery outside of brick-and-mortar offices—including telehealth, remote patient monitoring, and mobile care.
4. RHT4 funds community-level efforts to promote preventive health.
5. RHT5 invests in an array of evidence-based interventions and data integration efforts to improve chronic disease treatment.
We will take a hybrid funding approach, where we blend directed funding with competitive funding.
This allows us to jumpstart RHT-funded activities immediately when funded while still preserving our ability to fund the best ideas that can arise from a competitive application process.
To support the success of NJ RHT, we have sought out partnerships with innovation leaders (like SciTech Scity, a public-private collaboration to support digital health adoption), hospitals (University Hospital, which leads statewide emergency response), and academic partners (Montclair University, a state leader in reflective supervision) to help with key activities.
DMAHS will also rely on our strong partnership with public health partners at the Department of Health to leverage RHT funding to adapt our healthcare ecosystem to better meet the needs of rural New Jerseyans and help them thrive.
- New Jersey is home to over 1 million rural residents, who live in eleven of our twenty-one counties: Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Hunterdon, Mercer, Monmouth, Ocean, Salem, Sussex, and Warren.
Our rural New Jerseyans live in 40 federally-designed “rural census tracts” and in 7 state-designated “rural” counties.
Rural New Jerseyans are more likely to live in areas facing a healthcare workforce shortage, experience more SUD-related health impacts, and are less likely to make it to an annual pediatric well-visit appointment.
The Division of Medical Assistance and Health Service (DMAHS) is the state’s Medicaid agency and is applying on behalf of New Jersey to receive $1 billion in federal funding through the Rural Health Transformation Program.
If awarded, this funding would strengthen our state’s ability to direct resources and focus towards transforming the healthcare of rural New Jerseyans over the next five years.
DMAHS has been working closely with NJ’s State Office of Rural Health and other stakeholders for this application—and will continue to do so to achieve our goals of building our rural-serving healthcare workforce, and adapting care delivery to be responsive to rural residents’ wishes and needs.
We propose directing funding in five initiatives areas:
1. RHT1 supports recruitment, training, and retention of clinical and non-clinical providers.
2. RHT2 provides funding for essential providers of behavioral health (CCBHCS), primary care (FQHCS), and emergency medical services (hospitals).
3. RHT3 encourages regional partnerships to strengthen care delivery outside of brick-and-mortar offices—including telehealth, remote patient monitoring, and mobile care.
4. RHT4 funds community-level efforts to promote preventive health.
5. RHT5 invests in an array of evidence-based interventions and data integration efforts to improve chronic disease treatment.
We will take a hybrid funding approach, where we blend directed funding with competitive funding.
This allows us to jumpstart RHT-funded activities immediately when funded while still preserving our ability to fund the best ideas that can arise from a competitive application process.
To support the success of NJ RHT, we have sought out partnerships with innovation leaders (like SciTech Scity, a public-private collaboration to support digital health adoption), hospitals (University Hospital, which leads statewide emergency response), and academic partners (Montclair University, a state leader in reflective supervision) to help with key activities.
DMAHS will also rely on our strong partnership with public health partners at the Department of Health to leverage RHT funding to adapt our healthcare ecosystem to better meet the needs of rural New Jerseyans and help them thrive.
Funding Goals
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Grant Program (CFDA)
93.798
Funding Agency
Place of Performance
New Jersey
United States
Geographic Scope
State-Wide
Related Opportunity
New Jersey Department Of Human Services was awarded
Rural Health Transformation Program in New Jersey
Cooperative Agreement RHTCMS332089
worth $147,250,806
from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in December 2026 with work to be completed primarily in New Jersey 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
$147.3M
Federal Obligation
$0.0
Non-Federal Obligation
$147.3M
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
RHTCMS332089
SAI Number
RHTCMS332089-3326177491
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
MLGMLZ76EMC3
Awardee CAGE
37SY2
Performance District
NJ-90
Senators
Robert Menendez
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
Modified: 1/5/26