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New Mexico
Rural Health Transformation Program- Program
- New Mexico
- First-year award
- $211,484,741 (CMS)
- Lead agency
- New Mexico Health Care Authority (HCA)
- Program page
- hca.nm.gov/rht
- Contact
- The program office's contact details
- Where the plan names technology
- New Mexico's application includes a Rural Health Data Hub to "build a statewide health analytics platform that integrates siloed data sources to improve rural health planning," with predictive analytics, and plans to distribute remote patient monitoring devices for post-discharge care, upgrade and integrate EHR systems and "enhance cybersecurity infrastructure." Its budget narrative budgets $10,000,000.00 for EMR costs under Healthy Horizons and $5,000,000.00 in provider payments for health information exchange participation. Neither the budget narrative nor the part of the application that could be read names AI.
- AI named in the plan
- No
- Funding rounds
- Closed Rooted in New Mexico request for proposals (workforce development and graduate medical education); Up to $4.5 million for workforce development and up to $2.5 million for graduate medical education; deadline Sept 4, 2026; eligible: Organizations, for one or both domains
- Closed Rural Health Innovation Fund request for proposals (RFP27-630-1000-0004); $47M Year 1, $189M total, subject to annual CMS approval; opened Jun 30, 2026, deadline Jul 27, 2026; eligible: Health care providers, tribal entities, local public health entities, community-based organizations, local governments, academic institutions and regional partnerships
- Awarded Healthy Horizons Regional Hub Organizations request for applications; Approximately $74,061,254.17; opened Jun 1, 2026, deadline Jul 2, 2026; eligible: Organizations able to act as a Regional Hub Organization that are New Mexico-based or have a substantial and established operational presence
- Awards
- Sept 18, 2026: $74,061,254.18 to 6 Regional Hub Organizations: Cibola General Hospital / Gallup Community Health, The Regents of the University of New Mexico (two regions), Eastern Plains Council of Governments, Gila Regional Medical Center and Nor-Lea Hospital District. Healthy Horizons regional hubs coordinate with local providers and community partners on specialty, maternal, behavioral health and chronic disease care, which CMS says will be expanded "using in-person care, telehealth, e-consults, and remote patient monitoring." HCA says each hub "must use at least 90% of its award to support local projects." Announcement
- Next
- HCA's June 3, 2026, release called Healthy Horizons "a new $76.2 million federal funding opportunity"; the RFA lists approximately $74,061,254.17, and HCA says "opportunities to engage in with Regional Hubs are forthcoming." HCA lists the Rural Health Innovation Fund and Rooted in New Mexico as "currently under evaluation," along with requests for proposals for an administrative services organization and a Center for Rural Health Sustainability & Innovation; a Rural Health Data Hub administrator RFP closed Sept. 21, 2026. The program page links an email sign-up for updates and HCA's application portal, which said "there are presently no open calls for submissions" when checked.
Sources: CMS, first-year awards, HCA program page, New Mexico's application, New Mexico's revised budget narrative, HCA, Healthy Horizons RFA, HCA, $76.2 million funding opportunity, HCA, Rural Health Innovation Fund preproposal webinar, HCA, Rooted in New Mexico RFP release, HCA, May 13 program webinar, CMS, New Mexico Healthy Horizons awards, HCA, Healthy Horizons hub selections, Sept. 18, 2026, New Mexico's application abstract (CMS)
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