Supports planning and development of rural integrated health care networks to enhance collaboration among participants, expand access to care, improve quality, and strengthen rural health systems. Focus areas include achieving efficiencies, increasing health IT use, and exploring alternative delivery models to better serve rural underserved populations.
Eligible applicants include state, county, city, and tribal governments; nonprofits; higher education institutions; for-profit organizations; small businesses; and other domestic entities with experience or capacity to serve rural underserved populations.