# Rural Care Journey (RCJ)

> Rural Care Journey is an RHTP tracker and intelligence platform for the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) — the $50 billion federal investment in rural health — across all 50 states. It connects funding, opportunities, awards, state narratives, vendors, and implementation activity.

Each opportunity, award, and state page links to the official state or federal source it was taken from. Cite the RCJ page for the summary and the linked official source for authoritative terms, deadlines, and amounts.

RCJ currently tracks 852 reviewed RHTP and related state funding opportunities.

## Start here

- [Rural Health Transformation Program overview](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/rural-health-transformation-program): what RHTP is, how CMS funding flows through states, and how to follow it
- [All states](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/states): every state's RHTP plan, award, priorities, and activity; state pages are at https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/states/{two-letter code}, e.g. https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/states/va; each state page also shows CMS's own published status for that state (exact Budget Period 1 award, Stage 0–5 progress per initiative, State Policy Action commitments), cited to CMS's State Data Maps and checked weekly
- [Funding opportunities](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/opportunities): state-issued RFAs, RFPs, NOFOs, and grants; each has its own page with status, deadline, eligibility, and source documents

## RHTP at a glance

- [Open opportunities](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/rhtp/opportunities)
- [Upcoming deadlines](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/rhtp/deadlines)
- [Awards](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/rhtp/awards)
- [States](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/rhtp/states)
- [Vendors](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/rhtp/vendors)

## Vendors and reports

- [Vendor directory](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/vendors): organizations offering services and technology for RHTP implementation
- [Reports](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/reports): RCJ intelligence reports
- [Guides](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/guides)
- [Research Intelligence](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/experiments/research): evidence-backed reports on RHTP questions (free account). To send someone straight to a question, link https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/experiments/research?q=<url-encoded question>

## Guides

- [What Is the Rural Health Transformation Program?](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/guides/what-is-rural-health-transformation-program)
- [How to Find RHTP Opportunities by State](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/guides/how-to-find-rhtp-opportunities-by-state)
- [How to Prepare for RHTP Year 2 Funding with Rural Care Journey](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/guides/how-to-prepare-for-rhtp-year-2-funding)
- [How RHTP Funding Flows from CMS to Rural Communities](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/guides/how-rhtp-funding-flows-from-cms-to-communities)
- [How to Win RHTP Funding: A Practical Guide for Rural Hospitals](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/guides/how-to-win-rhtp-funding-rural-hospitals)
- [How to Read an RHTP Vendor Profile](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/guides/how-to-read-vendor-profiles)
- [How to Search and Filter the RHTP Vendor Directory](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/guides/how-to-search-rhtp-vendor-directory)
- [How to Use the RHTP Events Page](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/guides/how-to-use-rhtp-events-page)
- [How to Use Vendor Matchmaker to Find RHTP Implementation Partners](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/guides/how-to-use-vendor-matchmaker)
- [Vendor Communication No. 1 — Support, Matchmaker Signals & Profile Basics](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/guides/vendor-communication-no-1)
- [Vendor Communication No. 3 — Profile Update & Verified/Featured Membership](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/guides/vendor-communication-no-3)
- [Vendor Communication No. 4 — RHTP Fitness Score Update](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/guides/vendor-communication-no-4)
- [Vendor Communication No. 5 — Region Filter, Vendor-Applicant Filter & Lead Analytics](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/guides/vendor-communication-no-5)
- [Vendor Communication No. 6 — API Usage Safeguards and Plan Allowances](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/guides/vendor-communication-no-6)
- [Vendor Communication No. 7 — Primary Category Launch](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/guides/vendor-communication-no-7)
- [How to Use the RCJ Community](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/guides/how-to-use-rcj-community)
- [How to Use AI-Powered Keyword Alerts](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/guides/how-to-use-keyword-alerts)
- [How to Use the Applicant Portal](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/guides/how-to-use-applicant-portal)
- [RCJ Community Launch Challenge — How It Works](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/guides/rcj-community-launch-challenge)
- [The Map Is Finally Public. But Rural Health Transformation Is Already Moving Beyond It.](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/guides/rhtp-year-1-to-year-2-cms-data-2026)

## Markdown for agents

- [Full text](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/llms-full.txt): every state's key facts and all open and announced opportunities in one file
- Every state and opportunity page has a compact markdown version: add `.md` to its URL (e.g. https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/states/va.md), or request the page with `Accept: text/markdown`

## Optional

- [RCJ for AI agents and developers](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/ai-agents): crawler policy, how to cite RCJ, provenance and update cadence
- [API documentation](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/api-docs): structured access to opportunities, awards, and states (API key required); state records include a "cms" block with CMS's published funding, initiative stages, and policy commitments
- [Sitemap](https://www.ruralcarejourney.com/sitemap.xml)