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Rural Health Transformation funding in Tennessee

First-year award
$207M
Reported put to work, as of Jul 31, 2026
$31.3M
15% of the award
Application rounds open today
None found
Build a plan for Tennessee →Official state program ↗

Rounds to look at

I found no open or upcoming round in Tennessee on the last review. That can change quickly, so call the state program office and ask what is next.

What the state review found, as of Oct 28, 2026

The announced first-year application windows ended between June and August. Because the current application portal was inaccessible, later rounds or extensions could not be confirmed.

The state's pages could not be fully confirmed on that review. Check with the program office directly.

Closed rounds (2)

Where Tennessee's money has gone so far

As Tennessee reported it to CMS through Jul 31, 2026. These are commitments to agencies, contractors and partners, not a measure of what has reached patients.

  • Innovative care$20.4M
  • Appropriate care availability$5.9M
  • IT advances$2.4M
  • Program administration$1.5M
  • Capital and infrastructure$700K
  • Prevention and chronic disease$241K
  • Workforce$81K
  • Fostering collaboration$25K
  • Consumer technology$13K
Read the detail with care. CMS's category lines for Tennessee differ from its headline by $83,225. The line items below differ from the headline by $363,691. No information provided for Initiatives 6, 9, 11, 12, 15. The figures are shown as CMS printed them.

Initiative detail

Health Resiliency Program (HRP): Service Line Expansion & Co- Location - Activating Sustainable Service Lines in Rural Hospital and Healthcare Facilities$5K
  • $5KExpansion, enhancement, or establishment of healthcare service lines in rural communities. (Appropriate care availability)
  • $2Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) staff time allocated to the design, implementation, and operations of Rural Health Transformation (RHT) initiatives and other admin costs. (Program administration)
Last Mile Teams - Unifying multiple high-impact efforts to expand Tennessee's rural emergency care infrastructure and bring integrated health services directly to residents in hard-to-reach areas$56K
  • $18KHealthcare coalitions, expand system integration, and improve statewide emergency preparedness. (Fostering collaboration)
  • $39KTDH staff time allocated to the design, implementation, and operations of RHT initiatives and other admin costs. (Program administration)
Optimizing Rural Health Care - Direct Access to public health, primary care, and dental services for the uninsured$866K
  • $166KIncreasing access to primary care and dental services. (Appropriate care availability)
  • $700KMinor renovations to the Lincoln County health department to expand access to dental services. (Capital and infrastructure)
Memory Care Assessment Network - Expanded rural access to ADRD Care through a hub-and-spoke model$9K
  • $142TDH staff time allocated to the design, implementation, and operations of RHT initiatives and other admin costs. (Program administration)
  • $9KHiring, training, and staffing Memory Assessment Clinic Network (MCAN) coordinators. (Workforce)
Rural Capacity Building - Targeting Efficiency to Improve Access to Leadership Skills and Specialty Services$2.5M
  • $2.5MTennCare to strengthen Community Health Worker (CHW) infrastructure by supporting organizations in building sustainable systems, implementing evidencebased best practices, and progressing toward Tennessee CHW Association (TNCHWA) CHW Program Accreditation. (Appropriate care availability)
HRP: Maternal and Child Health - Building a safer start for every mother and child in rural Tennessee$3.9M
  • $3.3MInvestments into perinatal centers through training, supplies for emergency medical services (EMS), care delivery. (Appropriate care availability)
  • $13KDeveloping, launching, and sustaining the Pregnancy and Postpartum Mobile Application. (Consumer technology)
  • $225KAdvancing the Rural Fetal and Infant Health Initiative by integrating congenital syphilis prevention activities with community-based maternal and infant health strategies. (Prevention and chronic disease)
  • $516TDH staff time allocated to the design, implementation, and operations of RHT initiatives and other admin costs. (Program administration)
Value-Based Payment: Maternal, Hospitals, Dental - Catalyzing Rural Health Value Based Payment Models$20.7M
  • $20.4MDesign and implement three (3) value-based payment (VBP) programs. (Innovative care)
  • $330KTennCare staff time allocated to the design, implementation, and operations of RHT initiatives. (Program administration)
Rural Health Improvement Grants - Competitive grants for locally led-upstream prevention, nutrition, and active living$17K
  • $15KImplementing and evaluating Policy, Systems, and Environmental (PSE) strategies from the End Zone Playbook. (Prevention and chronic disease)
  • $2KTDH staff time allocated to the design, implementation, and operations of RHT initiatives and other admin costs. (Program administration)
Statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) - Developing a statewide Health Information Exchange$2.2M
  • $2.2MCarahsoft will support TDH in defining and establishing a statewide HIE. (IT advances)
TN Community Compass (TNCC) - Expansion of Tennessee's successful Closed Loop Referral System (CLRS)$7K
  • $7KTDH FindHelp Coordinators support the implementation and expansion of the Tennessee Community Compass (TNCC) closed-loop referral system. (Fostering collaboration)
  • $12TDH staff time allocated to the design, implementation, and operations of RHT initiatives and other admin costs. (Program administration)
Statewide eConsult Platform - Establish Statewide eConsult Platform to Improve Specialty Access for Safety Net$208K
  • $208KExpanding the Healthcare Resource Tracking System (HRTS) to rural hospitals, EMS agencies, long-term care facilities, and other Emergency Support Function (ESF)-8 partners to improve statewide healthcare coordination and patient movement. (IT advances)
Comprehensive Health Workforce Pipeline - Building a Comprehensive Rural Health Workforce Pipeline$73K
  • $92Implementing education pathways to students and young professionals. (Fostering collaboration)
  • $75TDH staff time allocated to the design, implementation, and operations of RHT initiatives and other admin costs. (Program administration)
  • $73KRecruitment, education, leadership development, and workforce retention in rural and underserved communities through paid internships, academic and workforce partnerships, professional development and leadership academies. (Workforce)
Program operations$833K
  • $750KCompliance and reporting services for TDH. (Program administration)
  • $83KTDH staff time allocated to the design, implementation, and operations of RHT initiatives and other admin costs. (Program administration)

Source: RHTP Obligated Funds Report ↗

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