Tennessee Rural Health Transformation Program
Strengthening healthcare access, improving health outcomes, and advancing the long-term sustainability of rural healthcare systems across Tennessee.2026 Awarded Projects of Tennessee's Rural Health Transformation Program
Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) list of the grant recipients and 138 projects announced in November 2026, that will receive funding awards through the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) to expand access to care and connect rural Tennesseeans to better care close to home.
| Grant Recipient | RHTP Priority Area and Project Name | Amount Awarded or Requested |
| Maternal/Infant and Child Health Healthcare Resiliency Program (RFA) | ||
| BEACON | BEACON: Lighting a Path to Perinatal Recovery in Rural TN | $9,803,001.07 |
| Bristol Family Medicine | Rural Maternal Child Health Family Medicine Fellowship | $3,872,951.00 |
| Camellia Foundation INC | TN-ROOTS: Tennessee Rural Obstetric Outcomes, Training, and Sustainability Network | $12,500,000.00 |
| Cocke County HMA, LLC | The Newport Maternal-Child Healthcare Resiliency Project | $643,500.00 |
| Diana Health TN, PC | Rural Maternal Health Access, Workforce Development, and Care Navigation in Tennessee | $10,754,000.00 |
| Erlanger Health | Erlanger Access to Regional Care (E-ARC) | $9,837,108.00 |
| Hardin County General Hospital | Wayne County Maternal and Infant Health Access Project | $1,249,750.00 |
| HeartBridge | HeartBridge Program | $6,114,264.00 |
| Jackson-Madison County General Hospital District | Improving and Expanding Maternal and Child Health in Rural West Tennessee | $11,860,300.00 |
| LeConte Medical Center dba Covenant Health LeConte | Advancing Rural Maternal Care in Cocke and Sevier Counties | $3,879,481.00 |
| Medicos Mission Fund | Connected Care for Rural Families Initiative: Advancing Maternal and Child Health Through Telehealth and Workforce Innovation | $2,302,300.00 |
| Mercy Health Services, Inc. dba Mercy Community Healthcare | Mercy Southern Heartlands Maternal and Child Health Access Network | $11,914,000.00 |
| Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach | Expanding Pediatric Care in Rural West Tennessee | $9,219,900.00 |
| Metro Knoxville HMA, LLC | Regional Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Expansion & Rural Perinatal Safety Net | $1,246,100.00 |
| Nurses for Newborns of Tennessee | Home Visitation for Infants of High Risk Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Rural Maternal and Infant Health Resiliency Project | $4,490,064.00 |
| Tennessee Initiative for Perinatal Quality Care (TIPQC) | Improving Quality Care to Rural Tennessee Mothers and Babies through the Tennessee Initiative for Perinatal Quality Care (TIPQC) | $12,499,999.03 |
| Tennessee Primary Care Association | Strengthening Maternal Care in Rural Tennessee | $5,165,253.00 |
| University of Tennessee Health Science Center | Mobile Simulation for Healthcare Workforce Training to Enhance Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes in Rural West Tennessee | $1,162,772.38 |
| Williamson County Hospital District (DBA Williamson Health) | Obstetrical Simulation and Online Learning for High-Acuity Emergency Training | $850,000.00 |
| Total | $119,364,743.48 | |
| Service Line Expansion and Co-Location Healthcare Resiliency Program | ||
| Ballad Health/Mountain States Health Alliance | Rural Cardiovascular and Cancer Access Network (RCAN) | $9,891,083.21 |
| Covenant Health | Service Line Expansion and Co-Location - CovHealth Connect | $24,366,574.00 |
| Dickson Medical Associates, PC | Dickson CT Preventative Care Initiative | $1,399,864.00 |
| Erlanger Health | Erlanger Project ACCESS: Co-Located MRI Service Expansion for Rural Southeast TN | $3,945,351.00 |
| Family Care Wellness | Expanding Psychiatric Care to Rural Warren and Surrounding Counties | $913,285.34 |
| Hardin County General Hospital | Expanding Local Oncology and Diagnostic Imaging Capacity in Hardin County, Tennessee | $2,050,500.00 |
| Highpoint Health Winchester and Sewanee with Ascension Saint Thomas | Southern Middle Tennessee Nuclear Medicine Expansion Initiative | $1,458,708.00 |
| Institute for Integrated Behavioral Health/ETSU | Expanding Best Practice Integrated Behavioral Health into Rural Primary Care in Northeast Tennessee | $3,110,828.00 |
| Jefferson County HMA, LLC | East Tennessee Rural Cardiovascular Access and Care Transformation Initiative | $4,024,800.00 |
| Jefferson County HMA, LLC | East Tennessee Rural Oncology Expansion and Care Coordination Initiative | $9,250,000.00 |
| Livingston Regional Hospital | Upper Cumberland Fast Track: Expanding Rural Emergency Access and Resiliency | $3,026,930.00 |
| Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach | West Tennessee Rural Pediatric Psychiatry and Psychology Access Network | $8,917,300.00 |
| Playground Pediatrics MSO, LLC | Playground Pediatrics Integrated Behavioral Health | $2,156,277.14 |
| The University of Tennessee Health Sciences | TennesseeCares Health Hubs: Expanding Access to Preventive and Chronic Disease Management Services in Rural Tennessee | $10,940,200.00 |
| Volunteer Behavioral Health Care System | VolunteerBH - Health Emergency Access & Rural Triage (V-Heart): Crisis Expansion & Co-Location Initiative | $14,521,023.00 |
| Total | $99,972,723.69 | |
| Healthcare Resiliency Program: Health Technology and Innovation (Long-Range) | ||
| Cartwheel Health Services P.C. | HEARTS (Health and Education Advancement through Rural Telehealth in Schools) | $2,906,940.00 |
| Family Care Clinic | Connected Rural Care: Health Information Exchange, Mobile Patient Engagement, AI-Enabled Documentation, and Language Access | $701,850.00 |
| Forum AI, Inc. (dba Tessellate) | Tennessee Rural Clinician Access & Retention Intelligence Network | $1,990,000.00 |
| GeneSprout Inc | Rural Genetic Access Initiative | $5,259,100.00 |
| Integrative Health Centers, Inc. d/b/a Peregrine Health | Tennessee Behavioral Health Access Network | $8,965,950.00 |
| Meharry Medical College | AI-Secured, Predictive, Interoperable Rural Excellence (ASPIRE) | $7,038,691.64 |
| Peerbridge Health, Inc. | TN Heart Access: Rural Cardiac Screening & Clinical Enablement Network | $4,964,690.00 |
| Tennessee Pharmacists Research and Education Foundation | Tennessee Pharmacy Interoperability and Rural Hypertension Remote Patient Monitoring Initiative | $14,311,933.00 |
| Tennessee Primary Care Association | Expansion of Health IT Support through the Center for Quality in Community Health | $11,491,670.00 |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Predicting and Treating Regression, Aggression, and Self-Injury in Profound Autism: A Rural Tennessee Deep-Phenotyping, Candidate Biomarker, and Telemedicine Service Line | $5,711,389.00 |
| Total | $63,342,213.64 | |
| Healthcare Resiliency Program: Make Rural Tennessee Healthy Again | ||
| Action for Healthy Kids, Inc. | Every Rural Tennessee Kid Healthy: A School-Based Approach to Rural Health Transformation | $7,143,566.00 |
| Frontier Health | The HARVEST Initiative: Healthy Appalachia through Resilience, Vitality, Education, Support, and Training | $2,539,965.00 |
| Hustle Recovery | The Restoration House for Women | $2,976,000.00 |
| Mental Health Cooperative, Inc. | Project BRIDGE: Behavioral Health Rural Initiative Driving Greater Equity | $1,356,368.00 |
| Southeast Tennessee Human Resource Agency | Southeast Tennessee Health Access Network | $5,083,492.00 |
| Tennessee Certification Board, Inc. | Rural Prevention Workforce Center of Excellence | $1,077,040.00 |
| Tennessee Kidney Foundation | Access to Care for Kidney Patients in Rural Tennessee | $2,543,860.00 |
| Tennessee Voices for Children, Inc. | Rural THRIVE Tennessee: Whole Family Pathways to Health, Stability & Opportunity | $11,289,622.00 |
| United Ways of Tennessee | Connecting Rural Tennessee to Health and Human Services: A Statewide 211 Information & Referral Partnership | $8,918,268.00 |
| University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture - Extension | Nourish Tennessee Families: Scaling Whole-Family Recovery and Health in Rural Communities | $3,031,573.61 |
| Vigil Corporation | Tenn72: Tennessee Rural Health Transition Network | $5,596,942.00 |
| Total | $51,556,696.61 | |
| Healthcare Resiliency Program: Health Technology and Innovation (Short-Range) | ||
| AspectN Inc. d/b/a MindWise Health | Rural Recovery Connect | $396,000.00 |
| Complete Wellness Solutions, LLC | Rural TennCare Unified Analytics & Care Compliance Platform | $1,130,704.00 |
| Covenant Health | Covenant Health Rural Oncology Early Warning Network | $1,816,500.00 |
| Crockett Hospital, LLC d/b/a STRHS Lawrenceburg | Vital Sign Machines with EMR Integration | $117,941.61 |
| Emocha Mobile Health Inc., dba Scene Health | Expansion of Scene Health's innovative public health and medication adherence technology to address chronic care, behavioral health, and workforce and system resiliency | $1,274,000.00 |
| Feonix - Mobility Rising | Mobility Is Medicine - A Technology-Enabled Access-to-Care Network for West Tennessee | $990,844.00 |
| Indiana Data Works LLC | RuralLink TN: Preparing High-Need Rural Healthcare Organizations for Tennessee’s Statewide Health Information Exchange | $450,000.00 |
| MD Health Pathways, Inc. | Rural Tennessee Physician Access Program: SMS-First Care for Counties Without a Safety Net | $1,900,000.00 |
| Micura Health, LLC | Safe Passage — Epic → MatrixCare Interoperability for Safe Hospital-to-SNF Transitions | $2,451,200.00 |
| MyOwnDoctor, Inc. d/b/a BigHeart Health (BHH) | Energize the Grid — Building Rural Tennessee’s Safety-Net Health Data Backbone | $5,681,000.00 |
| Psynergy, PLLC d/b/a AndorHealth, LLC | Psynergy ACCESS Clinic: Tennessee Rural Care Access Expansion Program | $2,500,000.00 |
| Qmetis, Inc. | Qmetis, Inc. Healthcare Resiliency Program: Health Technology and Innovation | $2,000,000.00 |
| RH Health Inc. | AI-Enabled At-Home Chronic Disease Screening and Care Coordination for Rural Tennessee | $495,000.00 |
| Southern Pediatrics, PLLC (f/k/a Grace Pediatrics, PLLC) | Connected Care for Families: Modernizing Care (Short Range) | $3,513,046.00 |
| Tennessee Health Care Campaign | Rural Health Resiliency Network: AI-Powered Care Coordination and Workforce Support for Tennessee Hospitals | $2,400,000.00 |
| Upperline Health | Data Connected, Care Extended: Upperline’s Rural TN Health Initiative | $1,095,686.00 |
| Volunteer Behavioral Health Care System | Volunteer Behavioral Health Care System: Rural Network Infrastructure Replacement and Security Monitoring | $3,185,500.00 |
| Watershed Health Inc | TRACE — Technology-enabled Rural Access to Care and clinical Evidence | $2,699,999.99 |
| Total | $34,097,421.60 | |
| Creating Healthier Rural Communities Through the End Zone for Chronic Disease Prevention | ||
| Brown Behavioral Health Services | Blue Plate Project | $1,500,000.00 |
| Moves And Grooves, Inc. | The Evolved Plate | $4,500,000.00 |
| Nourish Knoxville, Inc | Nutrition Incentive Expansion at Farm-Direct Sites in Union and Claiborne Counties | $2,000,000.00 |
| Scott Christian Care Center | Building Healthy Communities in Scott County | $1,000,000.00 |
| Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association (SORBA) Tri-Cities | Trailheads to Health | $3,000,000.00 |
| Tennessee Local Food Summit | Healthy Smith: Building a Rural Healthy Food Ecosystem | $999,937.50 |
| University of Tennessee | Fueling Pantries, Feeding Communities, Fostering Health | $3,000,000.00 |
| UT Extension - Tennessee RiverLine | Water is Life: Hydration and Water-based Recreation as Endzone Strategies for Rural Health in Tennessee River Communities | $4,500,000.00 |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Healthy Food, Healthy Futures: PSE Strategies to Reduce Food Insecurity and Chronic Disease in Bedford and Coffee Counties | $3,000,000.00 |
| Total | $23,499,937.50 | |
| Establishing the Tennessee Memory Care Assessment Network (MCAN) | ||
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Tennessee Memory Care Assessment Network | $16,499,997.30 |
| Total | $16,499,997.30 | |
| Rural Fetal and Infant Health Initiative | ||
| Cumberland Pediatric | Creating Rural Impact for Healthier Babies (CRIHBs) | $2,188,160.66 |
| Tennessee Voices for Children, Inc. | Connected Beginnings Tennessee: Rural Fetal and Infant Health Collaborative | $3,579,636.00 |
| Total | $5,767,796.66 | |
| Healthy Active Rural Tennessee (HART) | ||
| Appalachian Conservation Institute | Healthy Access: Trail Navigation and Interpretation Improvements | $61,037.23 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of South Central Tennessee | Pulaski Boys and Girls Club - Natural Playscapes Project | $100,000.00 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Cumberland Plateau | Healthy Active Scott County | $100,000.00 |
| Bridge Bedford Inc | Riverview Active Living Corridor | $100,000.00 |
| City of Altamont | City of Altamont Healthy Lifestyles Project | $96,000.00 |
| City of Clifton | 2026 Clifton Ferry Loop Riverbank Restoration & Park Improvements | $74,400.00 |
| City of Dayton | Dayton Active Living Enhancement Project | $90,000.00 |
| City of Gatlinburg Recreation Department | Mills Park Covered Bridge | $85,000.00 |
| City of Jefferson City, Tennessee | Centennial Park Outdoor Exercise Equipment Installation | $100,000.00 |
| City of Lawrenceburg TN | Connecting Healthy Spaces | $140,050.00 |
| City of Lewisburg | 2026 Jones Park & Comprehensive Master Plan | $150,000.00 |
| City of Manchester | Manchester Systemwide Parks and Recreation Master Plan | $94,700.00 |
| City of Maynarville | Liberty Park Placemaking & Enhancement Project | $100,000.00 |
| City of McMinnville | Warren County Multi-River Health & Safety Trail | $148,000.00 |
| City of Mount Pleasant | 2026 Mount Pleasant Community Access and Safety Enhancements on 3rd Avenue | $42,700.00 |
| City of Murfreesboro | MPRD We-Go Wheelchair Accessible Swing Project | $94,813.00 |
| City of Parsons | City of Parsons Safe Pedestrian Corridor Planning Project | $100,000.00 |
| City of Rockwood | Rockwood Forest Trail Improvement Project | $100,000.00 |
| City of Tennessee Ridge | Herb Gould Veterans Park Public Health Improvements | $150,000.00 |
| Civic Design Center | Highlander Trail Connection Plan: A Continuation of Oneida’s Active Living Workshop | $143,160.00 |
| Claiborne County Government | Claiborne County Healthy Places and Active Living Initiative | $100,000.00 |
| Clay County Government | Safe Routes to Hermitage Springs Park | $150,000.00 |
| Cleveland City Schools-The Denning Center for Family and Community Resources (Family Resource Center) | TDC HART | $100,000.00 |
| Clinch-Powell Resource Conservation and Development Council, Inc | The Rutledge Active Living and Community Connectivity Initiative | $150,000.00 |
| Cocke County Cradle to Career Coalition | Youth-Led Development of a Complete Streets Plan for Cocke County | $96,235.00 |
| Cookeville Regional Medical Center Foundation | Community Wellness Loop | $150,000.00 |
| Counnty of Putnam | Healthy Steps Community Park at Jere Whitson | $150,000.00 |
| County of Hancock | Hancock County Pedistrian plaza demostration | $100,000.00 |
| Echoes of the Rail Foundation | Highlander Trail | $150,000.00 |
| Foundation of the Dyersburg/Dyer County Chamber of Commerce | Wild on the Wing Walking Trail | $99,670.00 |
| Free Medical Clinic of Oak Ridge | Moving Together: A Community Wellness Initiative | $99,885.00 |
| Great Smoky Mountains Institute, Inc | Building Health Through Nature: Planning Tremont's Education Pavilion in Rural Blount County | $100,000.00 |
| Hawkins County Schools | Healthy Active Hawkins County | $100,000.00 |
| Hope Hohenwald Inc | Building Hope Active Campus and Community Wellness Park | $100,000.00 |
| Jefferson County Mayor | Mossy Creek Wildlife Viewing Area Improvement Project | $100,000.00 |
| Lauderdale County Schools- Ripley Elementary School | The Power of Play: Building a Playground Where Every Child Belongs | $100,000.00 |
| Loudon County Economic Development Agency | Lenoir City Recreation Wayfinding | $100,000.00 |
| Macon Hospital, Inc | Macon Healthy Living and Child Development Project | $150,000.00 |
| Mane Up Memphis Inc. | Mane Mindscape Community Wellness Tour | $100,000.00 |
| Nature Together | Trails Together: Community Audit and Active Living Initiative | $150,000.00 |
| Obion County Public Library | Creating a Healthy Oasis | $17,000.00 |
| SCCF | Activate Southern Grundy County Through Trails and Parks | $137,500.00 |
| Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association (SORBA) Tri-Cities | Gateway to Trails - Unaka Bike Park | $150,000.00 |
| Special Olympics Tennessee | Rural Inclusive Readiness Initiative: Expanding Safe, Accessible Health Infrastructure for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities in Rural Tennessee | $150,000.00 |
| Sumner County Board of Education | Sumner County Schools Districtwide Playground Accessibility Initiative | $75,000.00 |
| Tennessee Central Heritage Rail Trail | Tennessee Central Rail Trail - West End to Cane Creek Connection | $55,000.00 |
| Tennessee Voices for Children, Inc. | Cultivating Wellness: Community Garden Initiative | $100,000.00 |
| The Town of Ashland City | Active Ashland City’s Health, Heart and Sole | $138,300.00 |
| Town of Cumberland Gap | Cumberland Gap Parks Improvement Project | $100,000.00 |
| Town of Tracy City | Tracy City Littell-Partin Center Healthy Lifestyle Project | $116,600.00 |
| Town of Whiteville | City of Whiteville Planning Project for Multi-Use Trail | $100,000.00 |
| Veterans in Focus | Veterans Park and Conference Center | $100,000.00 |
| Total | $5,655,050.23 | |
| Perinatal and Pediatric Behavioral Teleconsultation and Education Project | ||
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Perinatal and Pediatric Behavioral Health Consult Team | $2,484,501.00 |
| Total | $2,484,501.00 | |
| Grand Total of Awarded Projects | $422,241,081.71 | |
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