First Consul Tate Reeves issued the following statement Monday.
Governor Tate Reeves today announced the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded Mississippi $205,907,220 through the Rural Health Transformation Program to strengthen healthcare in rural communities throughout the state. The award is the result of the state of Mississippi submitting its plan in November 2025.
Mississippi’s plan, which was first announced by Governor Reeves, was developed with broad input from key stakeholders across the state. The plan is focused on improving healthcare and patient outcomes for Mississippians, strengthening the state’s rural health workforce, and ensuring sustainable access to care for those who need it most. Additionally, when fully implemented, the goal of the plan is to ensure that by 2031, every rural Mississippian will have reliable access to high-quality healthcare services, both in-person and through telehealth, supporting increased access points and healthier communities across the state.
“This is another big win for Mississippi,” said Governor Tate Reeves. “When we developed our plan, we worked with experts from across Mississippi. Together, we came up with a strategy that best serves Mississippians and makes the biggest impact on healthcare in rural communities throughout the state. I’d like to thank President Trump, Secretary Kennedy and Administrator Oz for this once-in-a-generation opportunity. My administration is ready to get to work with our partners to deploy this funding on behalf of the over three million people who live in our great state.”
As Governor Reeves previously announced, the Office of the Governor will lead the oversight and coordination of the Program. It will work closely with the Mississippi Department of Health, which houses the State Office of Rural Health, and the Mississippi Division of Medicaid, a division of the Office of the Governor.
Mississippi’s plan is broken into six initiatives and designed to benefit residents across the state. The six initiatives are:
- Statewide Rural Health Assessment: Mississippi will engage a third-party to conduct a comprehensive statewide assessment of rural healthcare needs, both today and looking forward ten years.
- The Coordinated Regional Integrated Systems Initiative: This initiative is designed to transform rural healthcare delivery across the state by creating a connected, data-driven network of emergency, clinical and community-based services.
- The Workforce Expansion Initiative: This initiative is designed to strengthen the healthcare workforce in rural areas, improving access, continuity, and quality of care. Through targeted programs, the initiative addresses recruitment, retention, training, and career pathway development for all healthcare professionals.
- The Health Technology Advancement and Modernization Initiative: This initiative is designed to modernize rural healthcare systems by strengthening the digital backbone that supports high-quality, coordinated, and secure care.
- The Telehealth Adoption and Provider Support Initiative: This initiative is designed to strengthen rural healthcare by increasing virtual care access, supporting providers in adopting telehealth, and exploring innovative payment models. Investments will enhance connectivity, technology, and diagnostic tools to enable real-time remote care.
- The Building Rural Infrastructure for Delivery, Growth and Efficiency Initiative:This initiative is designed to strengthen rural healthcare infrastructure by improving access to specialized care, closing care gaps, and supporting innovative pilot programs that enhance healthcare delivery and improve outcomes. The initiative focuses on building physical, operational, and programmatic capacity to address unmet needs, improve care coordination and foster sustainable rural healthcare systems.
35 comments:
Just to make all of that a lot shorter. The feds will throw a lot of money around providing work for friends and families without really doing anything about healthcare.
This proves we don't need ObamaCare in Mississippi
$206 million is a drop in the bucket when compared to the amount of federal money Mississippi has lost out on by not expanding Medicaid but nice try anyway, guvner. You really stuck it Obummer!
You threw away $7 billion in exchange for $206 million. What does that prove?
This should fund some new vacation homes on the Gulf and make some luxury car dealers happy.
We should start Somali daycare centers in MS, I hear they are cash cows. You don’t actually have to have children in them to bring in money.
Anybody who thinks Quentin Whitwell isn't out to make the maximum amount of dollars he possibly can earn isn't paying attention.
3:45 came here to say the same thing! Maybe he can buy he and his wife some new things with hospital funds!
It proves that Mississippi chumps can chump with the best!
Most of which will be embezzled.
@2:58pm - Oh look at me, spouting off the flavor of the week Fox News propaganda.
Tax payers paying for others free healthcare
@5:53pm - And I’m sure you’re one of those “taxpayers” making $20/hr and paying so much in taxes.
@2:23pm - What are you talking about, 206 is a lot more than 7!
Only in Mississippi does a republican brag about getting other people’s money.
Just because you can’t seem to understand it happened does mean it’s not true. Maybe, you could stop being a sheep to the narrative and think for yourself sometimes.
Sorry, but all those initiatives read like jobs for a great many committees on committees meeting and would be administrators to hold meetings to hire consultants to advise on committees findings, and inform the public what great results the initiatives are accomplishing.
I'd be more impressed if MAGAs would do something to make health insurance more affordable. Apparently, the Fox News sycophants don't understand that hospital services must be paid for by patients one way or ot
For a "conservative" Tate sure loves him some pork money.
I was going to declare 2:16 the winner until I read the other comments. The people commenting here are wiser than Tate, and from some of the comments, they must have more than a working knowledge of what passes for health care in Mississippi. Very little, if any, of this money will go to the actual hospitals that need it. When you have lawyers, entrepreneurs and consultants who pass themselves off as "experts", what could possibly go wrong.
But Obama made healthcare affordable. It was even in the name of his law.
So you don't get emergency rooms and doctors in your community but maybe get a consultation on your Ipad, computer or telephone if you have enough money for access and reliable WIFI. This money will go to tech companies, not to medical care.
My biggest fear, with reportedly many people’s health insurance premiums set to increase to unaffordable, is that many will have no choice but to drop insurance coverage. That will lead to many hospitals having increased non- compensated care, which will put increased pressure on many hospitals ability to stay solvent. I hope and pray I am wrong.
@9:19am - The ACA as originally passed would’ve made healthcare more affordable for everyone if not for the GOP and their usual shenanigans sponsored by their corporate donors/handlers. For the last 15 years Republicans have sued and obstructed and passed laws undermining the original ACA law. This has made it unaffordable, which was the goal. Directly attributable to republicans.They do not care about you. One day you make wake up and realize this (doubtful though). Allowing the subsidies to expire yesterday is likely the final nail in the coffin.
@10:48am - This was the goal, increased consolidation, fewer players in the market, more powerful hospital corporations. Thank your GOP reps next time you see them when prices continue to go up and only the wealthy can afford care.
Are you one of those people who still believe a hospital has to treat everyone who comes to that hospital?
Redistribution of wealth.
Bennie, thanks for checking in.
Bribing the taxpayers with their own money. The pols figured this scheme out about 100 years ago and have been using it ever sense. "Free money from WDC."
12:31PM- you believe men can get pregnant, don’t you?
@3:51
No, it is worse than that. Bribing the taxpayer with borrowed money and the taxpayer is the debtor.
But you can still buy cokes and cheetos with SNAP. Give me a break!
Taking credit for engineering the theft of someone else's money that will be PISSED AWAY. Yeah, way to go Tate.
You MAGA extremists are NOT real conservatives! No MSGOP Conservative in HISTORY has ever turned down a place at the federal hog trough!
Yea, this is going to be a disaster. We are going to piss away over half a billion dollars in the next 5 years with nothing to show for our health outcomes. Just look into how much the department of education gave UMMC for health in schools during COVID and nothing came of that. Nothing changes in this state.
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