Rural Health Transformation Program (Kansas RHTP)
Kansas RHTP is the largest rural health investment in the state's history. We help you capture it — and keep it.
The federal Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) is funding Kansas rural healthcare at a scale never seen before — capital projects, regional partnerships, transport, technology, and quality infrastructure, flowing through multiple grant programs administered by the State. For rural hospitals, clinics, health centers, CCBHCs, and their partners, it is the funding opportunity of a generation.
It is also federal money, with everything that means: subrecipient agreements, 2 CFR 200, procurement standards, documented costs, and reporting that begins the day the award does. We work both sides of that equation. We develop RHTP applications built to win, and we administer RHTP awards built to survive an audit — and we were doing it before most organizations had heard the acronym. The awards on our Results page include RHTP and REH/CAP funding already secured for Kansas hospitals. Let us help you start or complete your Kansas RHTP projects now.
RHTP Field Notes
August 2026 — Year 2 announced: five programs, one deadline. KDHE has announced five grant programs for Year 2 of the Kansas RHTP — approximately $69.8 million combined: RPGP ($44M), REH Conversion / Transformative Capital ($11.3M), Emerging Technologies in a new format ($10M), Non-Emergency Transportation ($3M), and Accountable Food Is Medicine + CHW Deployment ($1.5M).
All five run on a single shared timeline: NOFOs release September 18, applications due November 6, awards announced December 18. The context that matters: Year 1's REH/CAP round funded 17 projects totaling just over $29 million; Year 2's capital line is $11.3 million — under 40% of that — so expect a materially more competitive round. RPGP is roughly flat and remains the largest opportunity, particularly for regional partnership projects.
With every application on the same seven-week clock, program selection and project scoping belong in September, before the NOFOs drop. Download the timeline using the orange link to the left.
REH Conversion / Transformative Capital (REH/CAP):
The flagship capital program. Funds facility renovations for hospitals converting to Rural Emergency Hospital status, and transformative capital investments for the full range of eligible rural providers — hospitals, physician practices, rural health clinics, FQHCs, health departments, tribal facilities, CCBHCs, and more. Capital applications live or die on the project case behind them: demand, financials, sustainability. That case-building is our flagship service, and REH/CAP awards for Kansas hospitals are already on our Results page.
Regional Partnership Grant Program (RPGP)
Multi-million-dollar awards for collaborative arrangements that transform care across a region — prevention, workforce, efficiency, value-based models. RPGP applications are partnership architecture as much as grant writing: commitments secured, roles defined, a region's case made as one. Building fundable collaborations between rural organizations is work we have done for nearly two decades.
Emerging Technology Program
Funding for rural providers adopting technologies that transform care delivery — with real requirements around security, HIPAA, data governance, and measurable results. We build the application around a credible implementation plan, not a product brochure.
The State's plan includes additional programs beyond these, with new rounds and new programs emerging across the multi-year life of RHTP. Part of what retainer clients get is simple: when the next opportunity opens, you hear about it from us first — with an honest read on whether it's worth your time.
Interfacility Transport (IFTP)
Funding to reduce transport delays between rural facilities — supplementing existing resources or building dedicated rural transport capacity, designed collaboratively with the State and local EMS. We know this terrain directly: our regional interfacility transportation analysis for a Southeast Kansas health network was the first of its kind in the region.
Community Health Worker + Accountable Food Is Medicine (CHW+AFIM)
Grants for rural healthcare organizations to integrate Community Health Workers into the clinical team and deliver food-based interventions targeting chronic disease — medically tailored meals, produce prescriptions, and related models built with dietitians and community partners. Applications need a workable clinical-integration story, a credible community partnership, and a budget that survives the program's cost rules. We develop CHW+AFIM applications and administer the awards behind them.
And One That Isn't a Grant — the Evidence-Based Practice Program (EBP)
EBP is a sign-up, not a competition: rural hospitals and clinics execute a participation agreement, receive incentive payments, and in exchange take on ongoing obligations — building evidence-based practice infrastructure and reporting performance measures through the program's administrator, on the program's schedule. Signing is the easy part. Staying current on the measures, the reporting, and what your agreement actually commits you to is where organizations drift. We keep participating clients on task: obligations tracked, reporting done, incentives protected.
After the Award — Where RHTP Is Won or Lost
Every RHTP award makes your organization a federal subrecipient. That word carries weight: procurement standards, contract provisions, documentation, financial controls, performance reporting, audit readiness — the full apparatus of 2 CFR 200, applied to your award, on the State's timelines. Funds flow on documented costs; missteps become corrective actions or disallowed costs.
This is the half of grant work most organizations underestimate, and the half we refuse to. We administer RHTP awards turnkey or build your team's capacity to run them — compliance files, payment requests, reporting calendars, procurement documentation, all of it audit-ready from day one. In 19 years, no organization under our grant administration has had a grant-related audit finding.
How Fees Are Structured
Every service carries one clear structure — quoted up front, agreed in writing, and priced with rural budgets in mind. Grant fees are never a percentage of your award, and you'll know exactly what an engagement costs before any work begins. The full breakdown, service by service, is one click away.
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