Ivey announces $203 million secured for Rural Health Transformation Program

Alabama has been granted $203,404,327 in first-year funding for the Rural Health Transformation Program as part of an effort to improve access to healthcare in rural areas, said an announcement from Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday. 

The funding comes from 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,” said Ivey in a statement.

“Now that it has been approved, we will take the next steps to ensure our citizens and communities benefit for generations. Making America Healthy Again begins in rural America, and I look forward to being able to improve health care across Alabama.”

The plan includes these 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

“Governor Ivey knows how important this program will be to the people of Alabama, and ADECA appreciates the trust she has placed in us to administer it,” said ADECA Director Kenneth Boswell.