# Nursing Home Telehealth – Nursing Facilities

The Maine Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), administered by MCD Global Health, is expanding access to geriatric specialty and geriatric psychiatry services through a statewide telehealth initiative serving residents of Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) and long-term care settings in rural Maine. This grant track ("Nursing Facilities") funds participating nursing facilities to adopt standardized telehealth workflows for timely specialty consultation, aiming to support up to 15 participating SNFs and up to 100 geriatric specialty/psychiatry consultations per month. The program focuses on connecting residents and care teams with specialty providers to help address workforce shortages and limited access to geriatric expertise, improve access to care, reduce avoidable emergency department visits and hospital transfers, and support aging in place. A separate, not-yet-open track on the same page ("Specialty Telehealth Service Provider," a Partner Service Agreement for telehealth vendors) has dates listed as TBD and is not covered by this record.

## Key facts

- Status: Closed
- Type: GRANT
- Issued by: MCD Global Health (administered for Maine RHTP, supported by CMS/HHS) (Maine)
- Posted: 2026-09-25
- Questions due: 2026-10-20
- Application due: 2026-11-03
- Funding: $15,000
- Eligible applicants: Skilled Nursing Facilities, Nursing Facilities, Long-term care facilities
- How to apply: Online application via the WizeHive portal at https://maine-rhtp-technology-innovation-funding-opportunities.wizehive.app/organization/opportunities
- Funding source: Rural Health Transformation Program (CMS)
- Official source: https://maine-rhtp-technology-innovation-funding-opportunities.wizehive.app/program/nursing-home-telehealth-nursing-facilities-partner-sites/applicant/application/info

## Eligibility

Eligible applicants must be nursing facilities operating in Maine and demonstrate organizational readiness for telehealth implementation, including technology readiness, workflow integration, staff training, resident participation, scheduling coordination, reporting, monitoring, evaluation, and quality improvement. Applicants must support resident privacy, consent, and HIPAA-compliant workflows, and maintain applicable state/federal licensure. Facilities must provide proof of Maine nursing facility licensure and may receive preference if serving rural, underserved, uninsured, and/or MaineCare populations.

## Requirements

Applicants must demonstrate technology readiness and capacity to implement telehealth, including integration into existing workflows, staff training, support for resident participation, scheduling coordination, data reporting, monitoring, evaluation, quality improvement, privacy, patient consent, HIPAA compliance, and hold required state licensure.

## Required attachments

- Proof of Maine nursing facility licensure
- Summary of telehealth implementation plan
- Organization readiness assessment
- Staff CV/resumes
- Sample workflows/protocols for telehealth consults
- HIPAA compliance attestation

## Application package and source documents

- [ME - 2026 - What We Do Who We Are Where We Work News Strategies Opportunities Rural Maine News Resources Contact us DIGITAL HEALTH PROJECTS (Maine RHTP Digital Health funding opportunity page)](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/api/documents/e6214d83-7f0b-4627-a8c9-fe7c3a302b74/file) — official: https://mcd.org/focus-areas/maine-rhtp/digital-health
- [ME - 2026 - Nursing Home Telehealth: Nursing Facilities Partner Sites (Application portal — Nursing Home Telehealth: Nursing Facilities)](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/api/documents/fe56c99d-9c00-410b-a3df-7dfe45440803/file) (primary) — official: https://maine-rhtp-technology-innovation-funding-opportunities.wizehive.app/program/nursing-home-telehealth-nursing-facilities-partner-sites/applicant/application/info
- [ME - 2026 - Project-Specific FAQs: Year 1 Digital Health & Telehealth Funding Opportunities](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/api/documents/50ca8acd-6a0e-4859-ad62-6df493820b5c/file) — official: https://www.mcd.org/focus-areas/maine-rhtp/docs/rhtp-y1-digital-health-funding-opps-faqs-project-specific-october26.pdf

More Maine RHTP activity: https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/states/me (markdown: https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/states/me.md)

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Source: Rural Care Journey (RCJ), https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/opportunities/nursing-home-telehealth-nursing-facilities--8abae071d5 — data as of 2026-11-04.
Cite the RCJ page for the summary and the linked official source for authoritative terms, deadlines, and amounts.