Funding Opportunities

Funding the Future of Rural Care

The Rural Health Transformation Program represents a historic investment in strengthening healthcare systems across rural communities. It fuels innovation, expands access, and builds a more resilient workforce for the future. Through a range of targeted funding opportunities, organizations can play a direct role in advancing care delivery, improving health outcomes, and addressing the unique challenges faced by underserved populations. Explore the available opportunities below to find programs aligned with your goals and take the next step.

North Dakota

🗓️ Deadline: May 1, 2026

This Rural Workforce Retention funding opportunity provides retention grants to support a variety of disciplines and strategies within critical access hospitals and their owned or operated clinics.

Indiana

🗓️ LOI Deadline: May 1, 2026

The funding from the federal Rural Health Transformation Program will be used to support Indiana Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) to improve healthcare access, quality and outcomes through system innovation.

Montana

🗓️ Deadline: May 1 – 15, 2026

The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services will collaborate with rural providers, hospitals, community organizations, and other health care stakeholders to deliver five core initiatives tailored to Montana’s rural health care challenges.

Pennsylvania

🗓️ Deadline: May 1 – June 1, 2026 (or until the funding cap is met)

$10K–$1M per award across Aging/Access • Behavioral Health • Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and Transportation • Maternal Health • Technology and Infrastructure • Workforce

Minnesota

🗓️ Deadline: May 15, 2026

  • Rural Health Transformation Program Funding
    • Rural Hospitals, Rural Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), Rural Tribal Nations, Rural Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers/Community Mental Health Centers (CCBHCs/CMHCs)

Approximately $193M distributed across hospitals, FQHCs, behavioral health providers, and Tribal Nations to support system improvements and expanded care access.

Nevada

🗓️ Deadline: May 15, 2026

$35.9M in funding for rural healthcare infrastructure, including telehealth, diagnostic equipment, mobile health units, and operational systems. No cost sharing required.

South Dakota

🗓️ Deadline: May 22, 2026

$31.75M in funding for rural providers to expand care access, invest in telehealth and care coordination, and improve maternal health and value-based care readiness.

Oregon

🗓️ Deadline: May 26, 2026

$160M total funding across multiple budget periods to support technology, behavioral health, workforce development, and regional healthcare partnerships. Awards up to $5M per project.

South Carolina

🗓️ Deadline: June 1, 2026

Approximately $169.7M across four initiatives supporting health IT, remote patient monitoring, chronic disease programs, community-based care access, and workforce and facility sustainability for rural providers.

Oklahoma

🗓️ Deadline: June 12, 2026

$20M in funding for implementation-ready projects that expand access to specialized care, reduce hospitalizations, and strengthen rural healthcare partnerships. Awards up to $4M, no match required.

Ohio

🗓️ Deadline: June 16, 2026 (3:00 PM ET)

$14.6M in funding to improve chronic disease outcomes in rural Ohio, with support for coordinated care teams, remote monitoring, and digital health tools. Awards up to $200K per clinic.

Florida

🗓️ Deadline: Varies

Through innovative care models, technology integration, and workforce investment, the program aims to ensure all Floridians, regardless of location, have access to high-quality, sustainable healthcare.

Nebraska

🗓️ Deadline: Rolling through August 31, 2026

$5.5M in funding available to support rural behavioral health infrastructure, including facility modifications, crisis response expansion, substance use withdrawal services, equipment, EMR upgrades, mobile crisis vehicles, and ADA improvements. Designed for existing facilities looking to expand or adapt services. No match required.

Connecticut

🗓️ Deadline: Rolling

$154 million federal grant through the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) initiative, designed to improve health outcomes, expand access to care, and strengthen the social and economic foundations of the state’s rural communities.

RCORP (Opioid Funding)

🗓️ Deadline: Varies

The RCORP-Planning and RCORP-Impact funding opportunities support rural communities in building partnerships, strengthening foundational capacity, and expanding integrated, evidence-based systems of care to address substance use disorder, including opioid use disorder. Together, they focus on prevention, treatment, recovery, and supportive services tailored to the unique needs of rural populations, while also enhancing workforce capacity, fostering coordinated networks, and improving long-term health outcomes to reduce the impact of opioid misuse.

Distance Learning & Telemedicine Grants

🗓️ Deadline: June 30, 2026

Approximately $27 million in grant funding is available for projects that use telecommunications, audio and video equipment, and related advanced technologies to deliver education and health care services in rural areas. The program is authorized under 7 U.S.C. 950aaa and governed by 7 CFR Part 1734. Grants are awarded competitively with no loan component in the current window.

DLT funding builds the network and end user technology that links a rural site (the school, library, college, clinic, hospital, or community facility receiving the service) to instructors, course content, specialists, and consulting providers at a hub site. The program is designed to bring courses, training, specialty care, and behavioral health services to rural communities where these resources are otherwise unavailable or limited.

Other HRSA Funding

🗓️ Deadline: Varies

Nursing Workforce Diversity
Supports expanding nursing education and increasing enrollment and graduation of individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to build a more diverse healthcare workforce.

Telehealth Nutrition Services Network
Supports developing and expanding telehealth networks that use nutrition services to prevent and manage chronic diseases and improve health outcomes in underserved communities.

Health Center Program
Supports health centers in increasing access to nutrition services through food-based and clinical interventions to prevent and treat chronic conditions while serving more patients.