Regional Partnership Grant Program (RPGP)

Children's Mercy Hospital

Children's Mercy Hospital, in partnership with the Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas, KUMC Great Bend and Logan County Health Services, will implement the Rural Pediatric Chronic Care Network using AI-driven risk identification, Epic-integrated care coordination and telemedicine co-management to support children in rural communities.

Stormont Vail Health

Stormont Vail HealthCare proposes PrairieLINK, a regional clinically integrated network and shared services infrastructure to strengthen rural hospital sustainability across northeastern and central Kansas through performance benchmarking, care coordination and value-based care alignment.

Great Plains Health Alliance

Great Plains Health Alliance and Pioneer Health Network will deploy Avel eCare telemedicine services to 31 rural Kansas hospitals across all six Kansas Hospital Association regions, providing inpatient, emergency and psychiatric tele-coverage.

Recovery Unlimited

Recovery Unlimited KS will create a technology-enabled substance use disorder treatment model linking community supervision, primary care and specialized treatment through Skyscape telehealth platform, establishing medical detox centers in south-central and western Kansas.

Garden City Community College

Garden City Community College will lead the "Frontline Futures" partnership to expand clinical training, launch a diagnostic medical sonography program, develop an accelerated radiology technology pathway, and build a regional healthcare workforce pipeline across western and southwestern Kansas.

Boston Consulting Group

Boston Consulting Group will support Kansas RHTP implementation with rapid response and infrastructure development, focusing on staffing and process improvements at KDHE.

Gove County Medical Center

Replacement of an unreliable mobile MRI with a permanent fixed MRI system, restoring reliable diagnostic imaging access for this 21-bed critical access hospital (CAH) in western Kansas.

Hutchinson Regional Healthcare System

Renovation of an idle nursing home facility on campus into an adult acute behavioral health unit and integrating with a new KU School of Medicine psychiatry residency program.

Clara Barton Medical Center

Construction of a sterile processing department, operating room (OR) dehumidification, and renovation of the rural health clinic to activate behavioral health space.

Pratt Regional Medical Center

Conversion of two endoscopy rooms to dual-purpose OR endosuites, expanding the Family Birth Suite, and launching the first breast MRI cancer screening program.

Citizen's Foundation (Citizens Health)

In partnership with the University of Kansas Cancer Center, Citizen's Foundation will establish a virtual tele-oncology program for nine northwestern rural Kansas counties and fund facility renovation, major diagnostic equipment (MRI, mammography, DEXA, ultrasound), and a Transforming Cancer Care clinical team.

Special Olympics Kansas

Special Olympics Kansas Healthy Athletes programming will expand into an integrated healthcare delivery model, embedding screenings and care coordination into rural federally qualified health centers, hospital systems, and academic medical centers across 10 regional hubs.

Clay County Medical Center

Clay County Medical Center will procure and implement a da Vinci 5 robotic-assisted surgical system to bring minimally invasive surgery (general surgery, urology, gynecology), reducing the 60% of surgical patients who currently travel 20-90 miles out of county.

Freeman Fort Scott Hospital

Establishing the first-ever MRI services in Bourbon County, adding 8-10 healthcare jobs.

Coffeyville Regional Medical Center

The Southeast Kansas Rural Health Workforce Expansion Partnership will create an integrated education-to-employment pipeline through expanded nursing, allied health and EMT programs at Coffeyville Community College, including enhanced simulation training capabilities.

Hays Medical Center

Purchase of a fixed, on-site PET scanner to replace a mobile service, serving 716 patients annually from 42 counties across western Kansas for oncology staging and cancer monitoring.

South Central Kansas Health

Completion of the physical transformation of Kansas' first REH, which began converting in 2023, into a purpose-built facility, spanning behavioral health crisis capability, diagnostic and surgical retention, and outpatient conversion.

BDO Government Services

BDO Government Services, as fiscal agent, will provide financial stewardship, compliance discipline, and audit-ready documentation to support successful delivery of RHTP outcomes.

Tribal Health Program (Kansas Federally Recognized Tribes)

KDHE will administer a grant program for Kansas tribes to develop and implement primary and secondary prevention programs in rural clinics/communities, including community health assessments and planning.

Labette Health

Three-phase renovation of facility and equipment at the only Level III Trauma Center in southeast Kansas.

InterHab (StationMD)

InterHab and StationMD will deploy 24/7 on-demand telehealth consultation services for 2,800 Kansans with intellectual and developmental disabilities in rural community and group home settings, preventing avoidable emergency department visits.

PrairieStar Health Center

Clinical equipment to outfit 14 dental operatories in a new 14,900 sq ft dental clinic already under construction.

Iroquois Center for Human Development

Iroquois Center for Human Development will lead the Kansas Frontier Behavioral Health Integration Collaborative that will build an organized healthcare arrangement integrating behavioral health into primary care, emergency medicine and outpatient settings across frontier southwest Kansas.

High Plains Mental Health Center

High Plains Mental Health Center will deploy mobile mental health clinic vans (Be There initiative) across northwestern Kansas counties, with school liaison services and community health worker outreach through LiveWell Northwest Kansas.

Wilson Medical Center

Coordinated transformation including Rural Health Clinic renovation to expand primary care capacity, expanded laboratory services and emergency stabilization equipment upgrades.

Greeley County Health Services

Greeley County Health Services will develop the Western Kansas Shared Services Group, a regional collaborative involving hospitals in four communities to expand specialty care, develop a shared services model, implement shared staffing and build technology infrastructure across western Kansas.

Memorial Health System

Modernization of the emergency department, adding a dedicated triage area, ligature-resistant behavioral health stabilization rooms, a negative pressure isolation room and a redesigned nursing station.

Kansas Council on Developmental Disabilities

Kansas Council on Developmental Disabilities will partner with Mental Health America of South Central Kansas and two community developmental disabilities organizations to pilot implementation of the START model for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

AdventHealth Ottawa

AdventHealth Ottawa will establish a hub-and-spoke maternal/obstetric and specialty care delivery system with purpose-built mobile clinic units (prenatal/women's health and DEXA/bone density) and RN/APP-facilitated telehealth specialty outreach.

Labette County Medical Center

Labette County Medical Center and Southeast Kansas Health cooperative will build the region's first collaborative health care governance structure, develop behavioral health crisis infrastructure, and create a behavioral health crisis stabilization unit.

Kanza Mental Health & Guidance Center

Kanza Mental Health & Guidance Center will integrate the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic model, combining behavioral health, primary care and public health into unified whole-person care, expanding mobile clinic services and MAT access across rural northeastern Kansas.

UKHS Care Collaborative Association

UKHS Care Collaborative Association will provide project management services as a sub-recipient, facilitating implementation with rural providers statewide.

Salina Regional Health Center

Five founding providers will form AstraHealth Kansas, a shared services organization providing benchmarked clinical data, analytics dashboards and legal/governance infrastructure to rural hospitals across Kansas.

Hillsboro Community Hospital

Funding to acquire a Canon Aquilion Prime 80 CT scanner with a cardiac package, expanding advanced cardiac imaging capability and reducing patient referrals to distant facilities for high-level CT.

Mercy Hospital Pittsburg

Mercy Hospital Pittsburg will implement SMART-enabled inpatient rooms with virtual specialty access (Mercy Virtual) across emergency, inpatient and step-down settings, expanding telepsychiatry, teleradiology and specialty consultation to reduce avoidable transfers.

Kansas Health Science University

Kansas Health Science University will deploy two complementary telehealth technologies: a Drone Slit Lamp System for remote ophthalmology exams and a second diagnostic platform, in partnership with Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Smith County Memorial Hospital

Equip and activate a second operating room, providing backup surgical capacity and ensuring continuous readiness for emergency cesarean sections.

Sunflower Foundation

Sunflower Foundation will recruit and train 90 rural primary care practices for behavioral health integration and provide ongoing learning collaboratives and technical assistance.

Mercy Hospital Columbus

Installation of a fixed 3D mammography system to provide daily, ADA-accessible breast cancer screening, replacing inadequate mobile mammography bus.

Ashland District Hospital

Purchase centralized patient monitoring equipment and cardiac stress testing equipment to establish a local cardiac rehabilitation program.

InterHab (CIDDH Curriculum)

InterHab and IntellectAbility will deploy the Curriculum in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) Healthcare — a CME/CEU-accredited eLearning program — statewide to train 300+ rural licensed clinicians in evidence-based recognition and management of chronic conditions in I/DD patients.

Grace Team

Grace Team will deploy a regional behavioral health and dementia-capable workforce initiative across 14 rural long-term care facilities, providing two-day on-site training to improve skills in managing dementia-related behaviors and psychiatric symptoms, training approximately 800 frontline staff.

Compass Behavioral Health

Acquire an FDA-cleared Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) system, bringing advanced depression treatment to southwest Kansas.

Fort Hays State University Docking Institute of Public Affairs

Docking Institute will design, administer, and analyze regional and statewide rural healthcare consumer surveys to evaluate the impact of the Kansas RHT Plan.