Rural Health Transformation Program tracker › New Jersey
New Jersey
Rural Health Transformation Program- Program
- New Jersey
- First-year award
- $147,250,806 (CMS)
- Lead agency
- New Jersey Department of Human Services, in partnership with the New Jersey Department of Health
- Program page
- nj.gov/rural-health-transformation
- Contact
- The program office's contact details
- Where the plan names technology
- New Jersey's Advancing Technology, Prevention, and Workforce Capacity request for applications set aside $9,000,000 for "Technology Solutions, Telehealth, and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)" and listed "AI-enabled analytics platforms or workflow optimization tools" and "AI-powered virtual assistants, chatbots, or triage software" among allowable costs. The hospital capacity solicitation covered electronic medical record, interoperability and telehealth advances and capped replacement of an EMR system at 5% of each grant, and the program page lists Technology Innovation among its five initiatives.
- AI named in the plan
- Yes
- Funding rounds
- Awarded Rural Health Transformation Program 2026: Integrating Community doulas into Clinical Healthcare Teams in Rural New Jersey (NJ); $1,875,000 for 3 to 5 awards; opened Apr 9, 2026, deadline Apr 27, 2026; eligible: Clinics, hospitals and federally qualified health centers that serve pregnant and postpartum populations
- Awarded Rural Health Transformation Program 2026: Community Health Workers in Rural New Jersey; $2,000,000; opened Apr 1, 2026, deadline Apr 15, 2026; eligible: Municipal and county governments, nonprofits, clinics and health centers, community-based organizations and tribal organizations
- Awarded Rural Health Transformation Program 2026: Improving Chronic Disease Outcomes in Rural New Jersey; $1,170,000, $200,000, $330,000, $500,000, $1,088,000 and $710,000 across six activities; opened Mar 16, 2026, deadline Apr 10, 2026; eligible: Rural and critical access hospitals, FQHCs and rural health clinics, local health departments, nonprofits, tribal health organizations, academic or health care institutions partnering with rural entities, and municipal and county governments, educational institutions and community-based organizations
- Awarded Rural Health Transformation Program 2026: Advancing Access to Care, EMS, and Dispatch Capability in Rural New Jersey; $11,000,000 annually for up to five years; opened Mar 9, 2026, deadline Apr 8, 2026; eligible: Licensed mobile integrated health programs, mobile intensive care programs with a blood bank license, and governments, hospitals and nonprofits that operate a 9-1-1 answering or dispatch point
- Awarded Rural Health Transformation Program 2026: Building Rural Hospital Capacity; $19 million; opened Jan 26, 2026, deadline Feb 17, 2026; eligible: Acute care hospitals that serve uninsured and underinsured people in designated rural counties and rural census tracts; the RFA lists 13 such hospitals
- Awarded Rural Health Transformation Program 2026: Advancing Technology, Prevention, and Workforce Capacity in Rural New Jersey; $8,000,000 for preventive health, $9,000,000 for technology, telehealth and remote patient monitoring, $500,000 for training and $10,000,000 for a clinical workforce incentive; opened Dec 30, 2025, deadline Jan 20, 2026; eligible: Municipal and county governments, educational institutions, hospitals, nonprofits, clinics and health centers, community-based organizations and tribal organizations
- Awards
- Jul 31, 2026: $52,236 to $21,748,500 per award to 54 awards. Advancing Technology, Prevention, and Workforce Capacity awards to health systems, counties, universities, clinics and community organizations; the largest, $21,748,500, goes to the Center for Health Equity a Public Health Institute Inc., and project descriptions include remote patient monitoring, telehealth and "AI-driven tools." Announcement
- Jul 31, 2026: $1,209,202 to $1,460,000 per award to 13 awards to hospitals. Building Rural Hospital Capacity awards, including an end-to-end virtual nursing model with a centralized command center at Inspira hospitals, EMR modernization at Hunterdon Medical Center and digital infrastructure and security upgrades at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center. Announcement
- Jul 31, 2026: $4,180 to $2,045,763 per award to 7 awards: Atlantic Ambulance Corporation, AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, Cooper Health System, Gloucester County, Inspira Medical Centers, Inc., Virtua Health Inc. and Warren County. Advancing Access to Care, EMS, and Dispatch Capability awards for mobile integrated health, prehospital whole blood, clinician-led triage of 9-1-1 calls and dispatch quality improvement. Announcement
- Jul 31, 2026: $45,021 to $710,000 per award to 16 awards. Improving Chronic Disease Outcomes awards to hospitals, health centers, counties, universities and community organizations. Announcement
- Jul 31, 2026: $106,258 to $300,000 per award to 8 awards. Community Health Workers in Rural New Jersey awards to health systems, health centers and community organizations. Announcement
- Jul 31, 2026: $85,484 to $790,478 per award to 5 awards: AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, Cooper Health System, HMH Hospitals Corporation, Virtua Health Inc. and Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey, Community Health Center, Inc.. Doula Integration in Rural New Jersey awards to integrate community doulas into clinical care teams. Announcement
- Next
- The program page says six competitive first-year grants "were announced starting in December 2025 into early 2026," that "applications for that competitive funding are currently closed" and that future competitive opportunities "will be posted as they become available." The state's funding allocations, dated July 31, 2026, list each award but print no totals; the Department of Health's July 31 release puts the first round at $83 million for 103 projects, from "more than 200 applications across six grant categories." Questions go to [email protected], and the program page links a registration for program updates.
Sources: CMS, first-year awards, NJ Rural Health Transformation program page, NJ, funding allocations, July 31, 2026, NJDOH, technology, prevention and workforce RFA, NJDOH, rural hospital capacity RFA, NJDOH, EMS and dispatch RFA, NJDOH, chronic disease outcomes RFA, NJDOH, community health workers RFA, NJDOH, doula integration RFA, NJDOH, first-round awards, July 31, 2026
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