Rural Community Health Improvement Program
New Hampshire was awarded $204 million from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to implement the first year of its five-year Rural Health Transformation (RHT) plan. The State’s RHT plan is administered by the Governor’s Office of New Opportunities and Rural Transformational Health (GO-NORTH). GO-NORTH contracted with the Community Development Finance Authority (CDFA) to invest more than $40 million per year to create a Rural Community Health Infrastructure Programs, which will provide resources to nonprofits and municipalities to support infrastructure improvements to health and community facilities across the State.
The Rural Community Health Infrastructure Program is a competitive program that will invest funds to rehabilitate rural health infrastructure that are included in and aligned with the initiatives and outcomes committed to in New Hampshire’s RHT plan. The program will also provide technical assistance to prospective applicants and awardees to help facilitate successful implementation, from grant application through project completion.
