Rural Health Transformation Program 2026: Advancing Access to Care, EMS, and Dispatch Capability in Rural New Jersey

AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center

Establish a Mobile Integrated Health program to expand access to follow-up and preventive healthcare, improve continuity of care, reduce preventable rehospitalizations, and decrease unnecessary EMS utilization. Expand the prehospital blood program to increase access to lifesaving blood products in rural communities.

Inspira Medical Centers, Inc.

Establish a sustainable Mobile Integrated Health program to expand access to preventive, coordinated, and patient-centered care in rural designated counties while implementing a safe, standardized prehospital whole blood administration program to improve trauma survival.

Cooper Health System

Establish a sustainable Mobile Integrated Health program that expands access to preventive, coordinated, and patient-centered healthcare. Improve care continuity through follow-up services, chronic disease management, and connections to primary care, behavioral health, and community resources.

Virtua Health Inc.

Improve rural health outcomes by expanding the Mobile Integrated Health program for uninsured and underserved residents, reducing avoidable emergency care utilization and strengthening trauma response.

Gloucester County

Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the emergency medical response system by integrating clinician-led triage into the 9-1-1 call process, ensuring patients are directed to the most appropriate level of care based on their clinical needs.

Atlantic Mobile Integrated Health services and Ambulance Corporation

Expand access to comprehensive healthcare by expanding Atlantic Mobile Integrated Health services and pre-hospital whole blood administration to improve access to coordinated care, reduce treatment delays and avoidable emergency utilization, and improve patient outcomes for underserved communities.

Warren County

Establish and implement a comprehensive Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement (QA/QI) program that improves EMS dispatch performance, protocol compliance, workforce competency, and operational accountability.