Maryland RHTP Pillar 2 Award Offers — Budget Period 1 ($78.6M to 41 Organizations)

Johns Hopkins University

NAVIGATE-MD: a statewide prehospital neurological triage platform integrating EMS, teleneurology, and Maryland's CRISP health information exchange for rural acute neurological patients.

Community Education Group

Establishes Regional Care Coordination Center hubs providing clinical, maternal, and social service access, addressing provider shortages, poverty, and transportation challenges.

Chester River Health System Inc (UM Shore Regional)

RISE-PC aims to transform primary care in eight rural counties to a team-based, integrated value-based model with clinician recruitment, behavioral health, care navigation, telehealth, and learning collaboratives.

TidalHealth

Addresses provider shortages and digital inequity via Epic-based risk stratification, expanded remote patient monitoring/telehealth, standardized behavioral health screening, and closed-loop digital referrals.

Carroll County Health Department

The CHAIN-LINC project aims to transform rural healthcare in Carroll County by addressing barriers via health hubs, closed-loop referrals, paramedicine, chronic disease management, and behavioral health expansion.

University of Maryland Medical System

Expands virtual care/telehealth infrastructure across eight rural counties via the University of Maryland Access Center (UMAC), focused on chronic disease, maternal health, and rural dementia care.

Frederick Memorial Hospital

Expands equitable access to primary, behavioral, and specialty care via a prevention/outreach/navigation hub, paramedicine, a behavioral health continuum of care, and value-based care alignment.

Meritus Health Center

Establishes a precision medicine clinic, recruits five primary care providers, and deploys the "All-In-Health" value-based payment model across hospital, physician, and post-acute settings.

St. Mary's County Health Department

St. Mary's 360: a "Connected Care Everywhere" countywide redesign of healthcare, behavioral health, oral health, wellness, and social supports across schools, homes, and emergency services.

Worcester County Health Department

Expands behavioral health services via care coordination, senior-focused case management, expanded school-based therapy, menopause education, and an "Exercise is Medicine" framework.

MedStar St. Mary's Inc

Establishes a system-wide mobile/virtual delivery network: a mobile health unit, community telehealth hubs, embedded CHWs, a virtual geriatrics care model, and 24/7 behavioral health coordination.

MPhA Foundation

The Maryland Interoperable Pharmacy Initiative integrates ~20 rural community pharmacies into the state's clinical data infrastructure to improve chronic disease management.

Cecil County Health Department

The initiative creates a coordinated, community-based system of care including a CHW network, mobile health and screenings, chronic disease management, maternal care plan, and closed-loop referrals.

Choptank Community Health System Inc

The project will shift from reactive fee-for-service to proactive, value-based care using an expanded CHW workforce, mobile health, specialty dental, integrated care, and remote patient monitoring.

Center for a Healthy Maryland Inc

The PRISM project is a community-based initiative for improved dementia-related care for adults aged 50+ in rural Maryland using AI-enabled risk stratification, monitoring, and navigator support.

Mid-Shore Behavioral Health Inc

A regional collaborative (as Core Service Agency for five mid-shore counties) addressing behavioral health barriers for at-risk youth, adults with serious mental illness, and justice-involved individuals.

Garrett Regional Medical Center

Shifts from reactive to proactive care for vulnerable rural populations via mobile cancer/chronic disease screenings, remote patient monitoring, direct patient transportation, and a one-stop health hub.

Allegany County Health Department

This project will modernize data infrastructure and address health disparities in rural Maryland through implementation of an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system and a specialized EHR for substance use disorder facilities in Allegany and Kent counties.

Calvert County Health Department

This project embeds Care Navigators in primary care clinics for early identification and integrated behavioral treatment, and optimizes the clinical workforce by delegating routine assessments and using cost-savings metrics to sustain crisis infrastructure.

Trusted Doctors

Opens a new pediatric practice in Calvert and expands Carroll County services for integrated behavioral health, pediatric obesity management, and telehealth, serving 5,000 new patients.

Greater Baden Medical Services Inc

Reduces transportation and provider-availability barriers via expanded primary care, integrated behavioral health, care coordination/closed-loop referrals, pharmacist-led counseling, and remote patient monitoring.

Tru Primary Care

Expands its existing Elkton practice (retrofit, additional providers, behavioral health integration, remote patient monitoring) and opens a new Centreville practice to serve 7,200 new patients.

West Cecil Health Center

Integrates primary care, behavioral health, and dental services with care management, nutrition services, and an embedded clinical pharmacist at this FQHC to reduce avoidable ED visits.

Children's Hospital

Establishes an integrated pediatric behavioral health ecosystem (ages 0-18) launching in Southern Maryland — Collaborative Care Model, rapid ED evaluation/telepsychiatry, and school-based tele-behavioral health.

Mountain Laurel Medical Center

The Rural Integrated Oral Health Access Initiative integrates preventive and restorative dental services into this FQHC's existing system for Garrett/Allegany County residents.

Miles River Primary Care

Opens a new office to serve 1,000 new patients on the Eastern Shore.

Kennedy Krieger Institute

Establishes a unified virtual and mobile front door to specialized pediatric care for all 18 rural Maryland counties, bypassing wait times and specialist/transportation barriers.

Cornerstone Southern Maryland

A mobile clinic bringing psychiatric care, therapy, Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD), peer support, and care coordination to underserved rural communities.

Frostburg Housing Authority

Addresses health disparities in Allegany and Garrett Counties via a community wellness hub, unified public/private transit integration, and workforce development.

The Beacon Institute Inc

Establishes a Sustainable Collaborative Post-Acute Integrated Network across Maryland's 18 rural counties, integrating nursing home care and enhancing primary/behavioral care.

West Cecil Health Center

Opens a new practice in Edgewood and adds a primary care team to the Havre de Grace practice to serve 665 new patients. (Distinct award from this org's separate Transformation Funds project.)

Lower Shore Clinic Inc aka HealthPort

Expands Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) services for serious mental illness in Worcester and Somerset Counties, transitioning from emergency-driven to preventive, community-based care.

Kent County Health Department

Establishes a central hub for addiction services at the A.F. Whitsitt Center, including an ASAM Level 3.1 Inpatient Residential Facility and an Opioid Treatment Program.

Healthy Mind Foundation

Opens a new practice in Cumberland to serve 900 new patients.

Charles County Health Department

Establishes an integrated rural oral healthcare model to address provider shortages, transportation barriers, and costs via expanded preventive, restorative, and specialty care and 3D digital printing.

For All Seasons Inc

The CARE Initiative modernizes this behavioral health/rape crisis center's technology infrastructure — telehealth, standardized screening tools, closed-loop referrals, AI-enabled workflows, and data infrastructure.

Ryan's Place Health Services

Establishes a new practice to serve 300 new patients.

Menocal Family Practice

Transitions an existing practice to an expanded facility to serve 2,000 new patients with advanced primary care.

Cornerstone Family Medicine

Establishes a satellite primary care location in McCoole to serve 525 new patients.

Washington County Community Action Council

"Rooted and Resilient Washington County" expands and optimizes the agency's existing Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) program.

Talbot Hospice Foundation Inc

A technology-enabled initiative to improve palliative care coordination and remote patient monitoring for rural patients with serious chronic illness in Talbot County.