New RCJ map views: explore states and rural providers visually

We've added two new ways to explore Rural Care Journey visually: a redesigned States page with map and card views, and a new Rural Healthcare Providers map. Both are public, and both are built to answer the same question faster: where is RHTP activity happening, and who is involved?

🗺️ States: map, cards and list

The States page now opens on a Map view, with Cards and the familiar List one click away.

• Map. Every state is a tile, colored by the measure you pick under "Color by": implementation phase, active opportunities, opportunity funding, federal RHTP award, state award signals, or rural population share. The phase view is shaded by each state's CMS initiative progress, so two states in the same phase can still be told apart at a glance. Hover a tile for the details; click it to open that state's full program page.
• Cards. One card per state showing its phase, CMS initiative progress, and key numbers side by side (active opportunities, opportunity funding, federal award, state awards, rural population, CAHs) so you can compare states without switching metrics. Use "Sort by" to rank them by whatever matters to you.
• List. The full table is still there for detailed scanning.

If you always prefer one view, set it once under Profile → States view and RCJ will open the States page that way for you.

🏥 Rural Healthcare Providers

The new Rural Healthcare Providers page maps about 39,000 hospitals, health centers, clinics and other organizations, built from public federal data (CMS certification data and HRSA health center and National Health Service Corps site records, refreshed weekly).

Provider types include Critical Access Hospitals, Rural Emergency Hospitals, Rural Health Clinics, FQHC and health center sites, hospitals, Tribal/IHS facilities, CCBHCs, behavioral health and opioid treatment programs, local health departments, primary care practices and community clinics.

How the map works:

• Zoomed out, each state shows one bubble with its provider count; hover for the mix of provider types.
• Zoomed in, providers group into local clusters, ringed in the color of the most common type in that area.
• Up close, each provider gets its own marker. The shape tells you the type (a diamond is a CAH, a triangle an RHC, a circle a health center site), and the color reinforces it.
• Click a marker for a quick preview card, then View profile for the full record.
• The list beside the map follows what you're looking at ("N providers in this map area"), and hovering a card highlights its marker.

Filters let you narrow by state, provider type, rural status, RHTP activity and services, or search by name, city or operating organization. Switch to Directory for a card list of the same results.

Connected to RHTP activity. Providers that RCJ can match to a state RHTP award are marked with a gold halo on the map and an "RHTP award" badge, and their profile lists the awards with amounts and descriptions. About 1,500 providers are linked today, including health center sites whose operating organization received an award. Matching is by exact name, so an award made to a parent system under a different name won't show yet; we'll keep improving this.

Rural status uses each provider's own federal designation where one exists (CAH, REH, RHC, or HRSA's rural flag for health center sites), and otherwise whether it sits outside a metropolitan area.

Why we built this

RCJ's goal is to connect states, providers, funding, opportunities, awards and implementation activity in one place you can navigate. These views are the first step toward seeing that picture on a map: which states are moving, which providers serve rural communities, and where RHTP dollars are landing.

Take a look and tell us what would make these maps more useful for your work: data you'd like added, filters you're missing, or anything that looks wrong. Just reply to this post.