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Meaningful rural health transformation starts with a conversation. We welcome inquiries from rural healthcare leaders, partners, and stakeholders. Please share a brief overview of your needs, and we’ll connect you with the right expertise from our network.
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All inquiries are handled centrally to match your project with the best team expertise, delivering tailored strategies, compelling narratives, rigorous evaluation, and compliance guidance to turn funding into measurable community transformation.
Rural Health Transformation Q&A
Understanding RHT funding can feel complex. Below, you’ll find answers to frequently asked questions to clarify key details. We also invite you to watch our recorded webinar for practical insight and strategic guidance to help rural organizations move forward with confidence.
Contact Angela Connor for a confidential, no-obligation consultation. We’ll review your needs (RHT application, sub-award alignment, implementation, compliance, or vendor sales enablement) and connect you with the right expertise from our network. Use the contact form or email angela@connorc3i.com.
Our collaborative network has collectively secured over half a billion dollars in awards across federal programs (including CMS, HRSA), state grants, and private foundations—spanning rural health transformation, telehealth, behavioral health, workforce development, public safety, K-12 and higher education, and distance learning.
Vendor sales enablement and funding opportunity alignment is a specialized offering led by C3i to support the broader ecosystem (helping providers procure solutions). It complements our primary focus on grant strategy and writing for rural applicants/recipients. All inquiries are handled centrally for the best expertise match.
Yes—delivered through Connor Communications and Consulting, Inc. (C3i) as a specialized service. We help aligned vendors identify territory-specific opportunities, develop sales strategies and branded materials, train teams on funding-aligned pitching, and advise prospects on navigating funding to support rural market growth. Grant writing is available separately via our partners if needed.
Eligible RHT projects include expanding telehealth and remote monitoring, modernizing EHRs and data interoperability, enhancing cybersecurity, improving chronic and behavioral health services, strengthening workforce recruitment/retention, coordinating emergency/pre-hospital care, upgrading infrastructure, and piloting innovative rural care models.
No. We are an independent collaborative of grant consulting professionals with no affiliation, endorsement, or connection to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS, or any government agency. All RHT information is drawn from public CMS sources (cms.gov/priorities/rural-health-transformation-rht-program).
Yes. Through the network, we deliver in-depth research, compelling narratives, and review services tailored to win CMS RHT sub-awards, federal grants, state funding, and foundation support for rural transformation projects.
We provide end-to-end RHT support: opportunity identification, competitive proposal development, specialized grant writing (via our partners), cross-sector SME guidance (clinical, emergency coordination, telehealth/digital tools), evaluation, outcome measurement, compliance, and post-award implementation to maximize impact and position for sustained funding beyond RHT.
We are a collaborative network of expert grant writers and strategists who have collectively secured over half a billion dollars in awards for rural health, public safety, education, and community projects. Partners include Connor Communications and Consulting, Inc. (C3i), Davis Development and Consulting, and Storied, with on-call subject matter experts in clinical care, first responder operations, and technology implementation.
The CMS Rural Health Transformation Program (officially RHT) is a $50 billion federal initiative providing funding to all 50 states over five years (FY 2026–2030, $10 billion annually) to improve rural healthcare access, workforce, telehealth, chronic disease management, behavioral health, emergency services coordination, infrastructure modernization, cybersecurity, interoperability, and innovative care models. All states received first-year awards in late December 2025 (averaging ~$200 million, ranging $147 million to $281 million); implementation, sub-awards, and procurements are active in 2026.