Rural Health Transformation Program

On July 4, 2025, Congress passed H.R. 1, commonly referred to as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. This bill creates an opportunity for the state of Georgia to apply for funds under a new Rural Health Transformation Program. States can apply for $10 billion per year, for five years. $5 billion per year will be evenly distributed to all states that apply and $5 billion will be distributed based on a methodology determined by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. That methodology is still to be determined.

The Department of Community Health will accept public input on ideas that will potentially shape the grant process via the form below from August 11-29, 2025. All submissions will be reviewed after that time, and DCH may reach out for further information

Priority will be given to suggestions that meet the following criteria:

  • Support for rural providers with “rural” being defined as a population of 50,000 or less
  • Short term projects (able to be accomplished within 24 months, or projects that include discrete components that can be implemented in 24-month increments)
  • Not anticipated to create ongoing obligations from the state beyond the end of the defined allocation
  • Suggestion meets at least one of the statutorily-required activities, listed in the form below

Additional Upcoming Opportunities:

In addition to the form submission, DCH is committed to hearing suggestions from stakeholders throughout the state. To that end, there will be three opportunities for in-person-only town hall meetings. Further information on the date, time, and location of those meetings will be provided shortly.

There will also be a virtual town hall meeting. Further information will be provided shortly.

IMPORTANT NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER: All information submitted through this process is subject to disclosure and will be made available to the public at a later date. Please use this form ONLY to submit information relevant to the Rural Health Transformation Program. No confidential or proprietary information should be included on the submission form as ALL SUBMITTED INFORMATION WILL BE POSTED TO THIS WEBPAGE. DCH reserves the right to remove inappropriate, profane, or irrelevant material before posting.