Note: it’s the dog days of summer— prime vacation time for state procurement officials and RHTP principal investigators. Now is the time to plan for the sprint toward the October end of year 1. Toward that end, peep RHTP Verified Intelligence.
In this issue:
New York schedules an August 12 webinar
North Dakota answers Clinics without Walls: Telehealth Infrastructure questions and rules out bandwidth
Washington extends three Rural Health Transformation RFA deadlines due to wildfires— but the end of October is unmovable
New Mexico puts out $22M Rooted in New Mexico Program Administrator RFP
Washington‘s Rural Collaborative received $5.43M and started running its own RFQs
Nevada discloses six Rural Health Outcomes Accelerator Program awards to the Pahrump Valley Times
New York schedules an August 12 webinar
Wednesday 8/12 10-11AM: NYS Rural Health Transformation Updates
View the webinar
Webinar number: 2829 999 9223
Webinar password: NYS_RHTP1
New York has been quiet since Rural Community Health Integration. That solicitation’s guidance, application, and two addenda are still stacked on the spartan NY RHT page, and its deadline was extended to July 14, which has passed.
That makes this webinar the state’s first scheduled public statement about what comes after RCHI, and the title is “Updates” rather than a named initiative. Should be interesting.
North Dakota answers Clinics without Walls: Telehealth Infrastructure questions and rules out bandwidth
North Dakota HHS posted an FAQ attached to Clinics without Walls: Telehealth Infrastructure (FO 210-331) — roughly $3.6 million, an estimated 25 awards of about $144,000, applications.
The issue of broadband connectivity continues to come up all across the country in every telehelath offering, and the answer is always the same: not covered under RHTP.
An applicant explained that it does not have the network capacity or bandwidth to support the telehealth services it was proposing, and asked whether Wi-Fi and network upgrades were allowable:
These are unallowable. Please refer to the information on Page 17, which states that equipment upgrades are not allowed.
On Medicaid, two separate applicants asked the same question — what happens if our Medicaid numbers are low — and got the same answer. You may self-report your patient populations and encounter volumes, and priority goes to applicants serving Medicaid patients. Low Medicaid volume is a scoring disadvantage, not a disqualification.
Washington extends three Rural Health Transformation RFA deadlines due to wildfires
In response to the wildfires burning in eastern Washington, Washington’s Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program has extended the application periods for the following funding opportunities.
All three carry official amendments dated August 6: Amendment 1 to 2026HCA14, Amendment 3 to 2026HCA12, and Amendment 2 to 2026HCA9.
Of course, none of the Work Order execution dates have changed—the end of October 2026 is a hard deadline that nothing can disrupt.
