Regional Partnership Grant Program (RPGP)

Children's Mercy Hospital

Implement Rural Pediatric Chronic Care Network with AI-driven risk ID, Epic-integrated care coordination, and telemedicine for rural children with asthma, epilepsy, sleep apnea, and diabetes.

Stormont Vail Health

PrairieLINK regional clinically integrated network and shared services infrastructure for rural hospital sustainability, benchmarking, care coordination, and value-based care.

Great Plains Health Alliance

Deploy Avel eCare telemedicine services to 31 rural hospitals for inpatient, emergency and psychiatric tele-coverage.

Recovery Unlimited

Create a technology-enabled SUD treatment model, using telehealth, linking community supervision, primary care, and specialized treatment, with new medical detox centers.

Garden City Community College

Lead Frontline Futures partnership to expand clinical training, add sonography/radiology pathways, and build a regional healthcare workforce pipeline.

Citizen's Foundations (Citizens Health)

Establish tele-oncology program and fund facility renovation, major diagnostic equipment, and a specialist clinical team.

Special Olympics Kansas

Expand Healthy Athletes programming, embedding screenings and care coordination in FQHCs/hospitals for I/DD population.

Clay County Medical Center

Acquire a robotic-assisted surgical system to reduce patient outmigration for surgery, partnering with Surgical Associates, P.A.

Coffeyville Regional Medical Center

Create integrated education-to-employment pipeline with expanded health education programs and simulation training through community college.

InterHAB (StationMD)

Deploy 24/7 on-demand telehealth consults for rural Kansans with I/DD, reducing avoidable ED visits.

Manhattan Area Technical College

Build a nursing recruitment pipeline from Fort Riley service members.

Iroquois Center for Human Development

Lead collaborative to integrate behavioral health into primary care and other settings with telehealth and community health workers.

High Plains Mental Health Center

Deploy mobile mental health clinics and community outreach across NW Kansas counties.

Greeley County Health Services

Develop Western Kansas Shared Services Group to expand specialty care, implement shared services/staffing/technology.

Kansas Council on Developmental Disabilities

Pilot START model, a community-based evidence-based crisis prevention model for I/DD with mental health needs.

AdventHealth Ottawa

Establish hub-and-spoke maternal/obstetric and specialty care system with mobile clinic units and telehealth outreach.

Labette County Medical Center

Collaborate on behavioral health crisis governance and stabilization unit for region.

Kanza Mental Health & Guidance Center

Integrate behavioral health, primary care and public health, expand workforce, mobile clinic services, MAT access.

Salina Regional Health Center

Form AstraHealth Kansas for rural hospitals to share digital analytics, dashboards, and governance infrastructure.

Mercy Hospital Pittsburg

Implement SMART-enabled inpatient rooms with tele-specialty access (psychiatry, radiology, specialty consults) to reduce avoidable transfers.

Kansas Health Science University

Deploy telehealth tech: Drone Slit Lamp System for ophthalmology exams and another diagnostic platform, partnering with outside institutions.

InterHAB (CIDDH Curriculum)

Deploy CME/CEU eLearning for 300+ rural clinicians in evidence-based I/DD healthcare competencies.

Grace Team

Workforce initiative for behavioral health and dementia care: onsite training for long-term care providers and staff.