RMPIF MD Rural Health Care Grant

RMPIF MD Rural Health Care Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Rural Maryland Council
Last Updated: April 02, 2026

Summary

The RMPIF MD Rural Health Care Grant aims to elevate living standards in rural Maryland by 2030, focusing on healthcare access and economic development. It supports initiatives that enhance health services, promote intergovernmental cooperation, and encourage entrepreneurship. The grant also addresses critical healthcare provider shortages and improves transportation for medical access, ensuring comprehensive support for rural health and community well-being.

Overview

MD Rural Health Care Grant The objective of the Rural Maryland Prosperity Investment Fund is to help raise the overall standard of living in rural areas to a level that meets or exceeds statewide benchmark averages by 2030, while preserving the best aspects of a pastoral cultural and rural way of life. Resources provided to the Fund are designed to facilitate significant targeted investments in important economic and community development programs and promote regional and intergovernmental cooperation. These investments will also enable local and regional public and nonprofit organizations to leverage additional non-state financial and human resources to facilitate the realization of sustainable rural development objectives. The Fund will serve the interests of the entire State by: Encouraging the increase of entrepreneurial activity and commerce and a balanced economy in the State;Relieving conditions of unemployment and underemployment in rural areas;assisting in the retention of valuable farm and forest land for productive use by present and future generations;Promoting intergovernmental cooperation and public sector/private sector partnerships in and between rural and other areas;Enhancing the deployment of housing, transportation, water, wastewater, and broadband communications infrastructure and services in rural areas;Supporting rural commercial center redevelopment and community revitalization efforts; and, Generally promoting the health, happiness, safety, employment opportunity, and general welfare of the residents of each of the rural counties and municipal corporations of the State. Health Care Health care access and delivery is a major problem in the State’s rural areas. Residents often need to travel great distances to seek health care services due to health workforce shortages. This problem is in primary care, and is particularly acute in specialty care such as surgical specialties, dentistry, mental health and other medical specialty areas. Eligible health care projects will range from health care planning, to health program implementation and evaluation, and will include projects pertaining to the following: Improving access to health and medical/dental care:Tele-medicine and telehealth networking Transportation Programs that focus on planning and/or coordination of health care Programs that address rural population health needs Programs that ensure health care insurance and treatment enrollment Programs that implement and measure accomplishment of components of the state’s rural health planRecruitment and retention of health care providers:Programs to aid recruitment of health care providers Rural residency programs in primary care and medical/surgical specialties and dentistry Housing projects to support rural rotations of medical students/ health professions students Pipeline programs for health care workersBehavioral and Mental health:Substance abuse, including alcohol, opioids and prescription drugsDepression and counseling, suicide prevention Domestic abuse and violence Programs that implement and measure components of the Maryland Rural Health Plan:Access to care: reduce barriers/remove gaps – primary care, specialists, behavioral health, oral health, and urgent/emergency facilitiesCare coordination: explore mechanisms to link health care consumers to services and improve coordination and collaboration between health care providersHealth literacy and health insurance literacy: explore ways to increase individual health literacy and health insurance literacy of consumersOutreach and education: work with community-based services and health care infrastructure to provide outreach and education to citizens on relevant and emergent health issuesChronic disease prevention and management:Health education on diabetes, obesity, heart disease, cancers prevalent in rural Maryland, hypertension/high blood pressureDisease management programs Research and treatment of health impacts on minority populations, and in particular, prenatal careOral and Dental health Special FY2024 RMPIF Health Care Addition: Projects to support the Rural Nonemergency Medical Transportation Pilot Program Current healthcare research indicates that one out of five healthcare appointments are missed due to lack of reliable transportation (Syed, 2013). Research indicates that there are as many as 73,000 to 82,000 adult Marylanders who miss at least one or more medical appointments each year. Compared to the rest of the U.S. population, the transportation disadvantaged, the target population, is poorer, more female, includes more minority population groups and suffers more disease co-morbidity.

Eligibility

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