Betsy Wood

Alaska's fall round of rural health transformation money will be smaller and exclude renovations, Hedberg says

Alaska opens $75 million rural health grant round before scoring rules are final

“we all recognize we're working on imperfect timelines and that in an ideal ideal world, we would have been able to provide proposed changes weeks ago”

Mat-Su Regional gets $5 million in federal rural health money for a neonatal intensive care unit

“I think one thing that Alaska is doing a bit differently than most other states is really taking a community-based approach to the way that we're distributing the funds.”

Alaska has five weeks to commit $33 million in federal rural health money

“States have to allocate all of their year 1 dollars by the end of the first budget period, which is October 30th of this year.”

Alaska will score rural health grant applications on cost-effectiveness

“our intent is to put these comments out through the state's online public notice system on Friday, on the 25th, and post that for public comment for 2 weeks.”

Alaska has $272 million to change rural health care. The requests reached $2.5 billion.

“this means we're targeting about 11 weeks from application opening to awards beginning compared to the 24 weeks that we've been working on under this first cycle.”

Alaska streamlines the fall round of its $272 million rural health fund

“this means we're targeting about 11 weeks from application opening to awards beginning, compared to the 24 weeks that we've been working on under this first cycle”

Alaska starts spending its $272 million in rural health money

Alaska adds $16.8 million in rural health awards without naming who gets the money

“organizations should plan to complete their project activities and expend their awarded funds by June 30th, 2027.”

Alaska plans nearly $126 million for rural health projects, its biggest round yet

“organizations should plan to complete their project activities and expend their awarded funds by June 30th, 2027”

Alaska issues intent to award $30 million to 37 rural health projects

“organizations should plan to complete their project activities and expend their awarded funds by June 30th, 2027”