July 24, 2026 - Top 5 Insights
🤖 Mahaska puts every AI bet to work
Mahaska Health is using a structured framework to decide which AI investments are worth pursuing at a rural critical access hospital.
Why it matters: Rural hospitals have little room for low-value technology experiments, so every ...
July 17, 2026 - Top 5 Insights
📅 Free webinar: Rural health awards: what states are doing and what’s next
Rural health funding is moving quickly, and notices of award may offer one of the earliest insights into where states are headed next.
Why it matters: These notices can reveal more than fundi...
July 10, 2026 - Top 5 Insights
🖥️ Delaware builds rural health tech backbone
Delaware is putting rural health funding into health information exchange and broader health IT infrastructure, giving the state another pathway to strengthen how rural providers share and use information.
Why it matters...
June 26, 2026 - Top 5 Insights
🧾 CMS tightens Medicaid waiver rules
CMS is signaling a major overhaul of Section 1115 waiver rules, one of the main tools states use to test Medicaid policy changes.
Why it matters: States may face a more rigid, less flexible path for waiver approval just as Medica...
June 19, 2026 - Top 5 Insights
⚠️ Virginia report flags rural hospital risk
A Virginia legislative report found seven rural hospitals at the highest risk of financial distress or closure under at least one national assessment model.
Why it matters: Closure risk still affects hospital strategy, lo...
June 12, 2026 - Top 5 Insights
🏠 Hospital-at-home is pushing harder on discharge and readmissions
Hospital-at-home programs are increasingly being judged not only on whether they can shift care out of the facility, but on what happens after patients leave the program.
Why it matters: As more hosp...
June 5, 2026 - Top 5 Insights
⚠️ Rural hospitals face funding challenges
Recent coverage is making a familiar point more explicit: new rural grant funding may help, but many hospitals do not see it as a full answer to the deeper financial pressure they are facing.
Why it matters: This is an impor...
Texas has made a major change to one of its Rural Health Transformation Program funding tracks.
Why it matters: Recent addenda now explicitly prohibit grant funds from being used for software, software licenses, software subscriptions, software maintenance agreements, or other technology subscrip...
May 29, 2026 - Top 5 Insights
🖥️ Rural transformation may create more room for tech-enabled care infrastructure
As Rural Health Transformation Program activity expands, the need is starting to look bigger than grant applications alone. Rural providers may need stronger tools for patient data inte...
May 22, 2026 - Top 5 Insights
🗺️ NRHA launches a new RHTP resource hub
The National Rural Health Association has launched its new RHTP state-by-state resources. This includes a calendar of funding deadlines, a map of rollout statuses, and a directory of state contacts.
Why it matters: As states t...
May 15, 2026 - Top 5 Insights
🚐 Tennessee connects mobile care, telehealth, and rural access
Tennessee is enhancing rural health access through mobile care, telehealth, and community delivery models.
What’s new: The Tennessee Rural Health Care Center of Excellence is now accepting applications f...
May 8, 2026 - Top 5 Insights
🏗️ Texas opens Initiative 6 applications
HHSC has officially opened Initiative 6: Infrastructure and Capital Investments under Rural Texas Strong. Applications are now live and due June 1 at 10:30 a.m. CT.
Why it matters: This confirms what we expected. Infrastructur...
