The Trump Administration announced $219 million in funding through the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) to expand healthcare access in rural Georgia, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The investment will support workforce recruitment, telehealth expansion, and healthcare facility modernization across the state.
The program targets Georgia's 126 rural and partially rural counties through five coordinated initiatives. These will deploy mobile clinics and telehealth pods, strengthen maternal, pediatric, behavioral and preventive care, and support training programs and residencies designed to attract and retain healthcare clinicians.
The funding will help rural hospitals improve electronic medical records systems, cybersecurity, and other technologies to enhance patient care coordination. Additional initiatives include promoting community-based and preventive care through school-based services and mobile clinics, and advancing new care delivery and payment models.
Georgia committed its full $219 million allocation to the program. The funding was authorized through the Working Families Tax Cuts Act, according to the administration.