Reviewed by: Nathan Watson
Alabama secures $203M for rural health transformation
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Alabama’s Rural Health Transformational Health Program plan has been approved and awarded $203 million by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
“We are very pleased Alabama will be awarded more than $203 million in the first year of the Rural Health Transformation Program. After President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law in July, Alabama got to work preparing for this program so we could hit the ground running once our state’s new comprehensive rural health strategy was approved. Now that it has been approved, we will take the next steps to ensure our citizens and communities benefit for generations.”
Governor Kay Ivey
The focus of the five-year program is to help improve healthcare access, quality and outcomes in the state.
Alabama’s plan includes 11 initiatives:
- Collaborative Electronic Health Record (EHR), IT and Cybersecurity Initiative
- Rural Health Initiative
- Maternal and Fetal Health Initiative
- Rural Workforce Initiative
- Cancer Digital Regionalization Initiative
- Simulation Training Initiative
- Statewide EMS Trauma and Stroke Initiative
- EMS Treat-In-Place Initiative
- Mental Health Initiative
- Community Medicine Initiative
- Rural Health Practice Initiative
The initiatives were developed with the input and collaboration of the Governor’s Office, Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA), the Alabama Department of Finance, the Alabama Medicaid Agency and the Alabama State Health Planning and Development Agency, along with dozens of stakeholders, healthcare experts and lawmakers.
The program will be administered by ADECA.
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