Rural Care Journey guide
The Rural Health Transformation Program is a federal investment designed to help states strengthen sustainable access to care in rural communities. CMS approves state plans, and each state translates its plan into a different mix of grants, procurements, workforce initiatives, technology projects, technical assistance, and community partnerships. That makes the program valuable but difficult to follow: the evidence is distributed across state portals, agency pages, procurement systems, award notices, and implementation documents. Rural Care Journey brings those public signals together so applicants, vendors, providers, researchers, and program teams can see what is open, what changed, where awards are going, and what implementation work is emerging. RCJ links its records back to public source evidence; CMS remains the authoritative federal source for program policy and official guidance.
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RCJ data updated continuously; latest tracker refresh reflected here: October 12, 2026.
Search active and closing-soon state and federal opportunities, with eligibility, deadlines, source documents, and application links.
Browse opportunities →Explore state-level plans, awards, documents, implementation phases, and activity across the RHTP landscape.
Explore all states →Use the vendor directory to discover organizations working across telehealth, workforce, interoperability, EMS, analytics, and care delivery.
Browse vendors →Review RCJ reports and research that connect funding activity to awards, program design, and implementation patterns.
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Latest updates
AZ - 2026 - YH27-0018 RFGA Opioid Antagonist Distribution Initiative
AZ · processed recently
AZ - 2026 - YH27-0018 Exhibit F - Insurance Requirements FINAL
AZ · processed recently
RFP 27-09RHT-024 — DOH Rural Health Transformation Grant & Project Management
SD · processed recently
VT Bid #73741 — AHS Rural Health Grant Management Solution (Award page)
VT · processed recently
RFP 26-09RHT-021 — Rural Health Data Atlas: Data Visualization and Analysis Platform
SD · processed recently
AZ - 2026 - Sheet: Instructions
AZ · processed recently
CMS is the authoritative source for federal RHTP policy, program guidance, and official federal announcements. RCJ complements that source by organizing state-level procurement, award, document, vendor, and implementation activity into a searchable public intelligence layer.
Visit CMS Rural Health Transformation Program ↗The Rural Health Transformation Program is a CMS-administered federal investment that supports state-led efforts to improve sustainable access to healthcare in rural communities. States use approved plans to fund programs, procurements, grants, and implementation partnerships.
Use Rural Care Journey's public opportunity directory to filter active RHTP RFAs, RFPs, NOFOs, grants, and other state or federal notices by status, state, type, and deadline.
Eligibility varies by state and notice. Programs may include rural hospitals, critical access hospitals, FQHCs, rural health clinics, EMS agencies, public agencies, community organizations, universities, and technology or implementation vendors.