The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) announced recently that the state will begin preparing an application for federal funds meant to help struggling rural health providers like some of those across North Carolina.
The money would come from the new Rural Health Transformation Program that was created under HR1 – a sweeping federal initiative signed into law by President Donald Trump last month.
The Rural Health Transformation Program is being billed as a way to “soften the blow” of major Medicaid reductions that are included in the federal legislation in the One Big Beautiful Bill – reductions that state health officials say will weigh most heavily on rural communities…