RHTP Tracker — the $50B Rural Health Fund, state by state

$76.2M Rural Community Health Integration (RCHI) applications due TODAY

RISE AR workforce round closes ($27.3M — FQHCs explicitly eligible; RETAIN retention incentives are the largest pot at $14.4M); HEART prevention round follows July 31

EMS capacity-assessment RFP closes July 24; Workforce Expansion and PES-EmPATH applications close August 17

Rural doula program closes ($2.5M+, communities under 55K) — and the first completed RHTP cycle already put an FQHC on the awardee list (Great Salt Plains); paramedicine vehicles due Jul 20

$47M Rural Health Innovation Fund proposals due — health centers can apply DIRECTLY (unlike the hub-mediated Healthy Horizons round)

Interfacility Transport applications due (awards Aug 28); CHW + Food-is-Medicine awardees — the round aimed most directly at FQHC care models — expected by Jul 17

$23.7M telehealth window closes (FQHCs explicitly eligible); RISE 2.5 workforce (up to $100M/5yr) due Aug 4; the $291.8M SPRINT consortium takes LOIs by Jul 27

Rural Clinical Fellowship for Advanced Practice Providers applications due — FQHCs eligible partners (a ~$9.65M direct rural-FQHC award closed May 26)

$160M grant window closes — only 2026 applicants stay eligible for future rounds

Two windows still open: Dental Hygiene Programs (Aug 1) and CHW Certificate training organizations (Aug 5); July-wave funds flow Oct 1

Rural Medicaid Alternative Payment Model applications due — FQHCs explicitly eligible for risk-sharing VBC awards ($100K–$2M per project, 10% cost-share)

Round 2 closes — five NOFOs (incl. Maternal & Fetal Health); application workshops July 21-22

Use-it-or-lose-it: all $186M must be awarded by Oct 30 or federal authorities may redirect it to other states; RFP wave live now (facility renovation, cybersecurity, technology)

Applications opened July 1 — Year-1 $205M must be obligated by Oct 31; 36.4% earmarked for FQHC-anchored primary-care expansion

ToRCH hub anchor announcements due in July — FQHCs, RHCs and CCBHCs listed as eligible non-hospital clinical providers

$30M EMR-modernization round opens mid-July — FQHCs and Look-Alikes explicitly named (~$81K minimum per rural site; MPCA: 'a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity')

$62M+ in sub-grants open in rolling two-week windows

~$500K-per-awardee EMR & AI upgrade funding opened July 2 — rural FQHCs explicitly eligible

Seven competitive windows rolling through July

CDFA capital-infrastructure eligibility determinations open on a rolling basis ($40M+/yr; FQHCs explicitly named) — skip this step and you're out of the competitive rounds; Council votes year-two funding in October

$34M 'Workforce for Wellness' round opened July 8

Year-1 funding starts flowing in August (June 17 competition closed)