The Trump administration announced over $1 million in Rural Health Transformation Program funding aimed at recruiting and retaining physicians in rural Delaware communities.
The program, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), will provide two educational awards to medical students in its first year and approximately 61 housing and relocation awards to physicians in graduate medical education programs. Participants must commit to five years of practice in rural Delaware, with at least 50 percent of their practice serving qualified rural areas.
The investment was made possible through the Working Families Tax Cuts Act, which allocated $50 billion for states to transform healthcare delivery, according to the announcement. The Delaware funding is part of a broader fiscal 2026 allocation under the Rural Health Transformation Program.
The program's focus areas include strengthening the rural healthcare workforce through recruitment and training; supporting rural facilities and access; developing new care and payment models; expanding community-based preventive services including school-based care and mobile clinics; and modernizing rural healthcare infrastructure through remote care and data-driven tools.