Assistance program
Grants to States for Operation of State Offices of Rural Health
$89.7 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Health Resources and Services Administration, Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 93.913
- What it does
- The purpose of the State Offices of Rural Health (SORH) grant program is to assist states in strengthening rural health care delivery systems by maintaining a focal point for rural health within each state. The program provides funding for an institutional framework that links small rural communities with state and federal resources to help develop long-term solutions to rural health problems
- Who benefits
- Underserved populations in rural areas; facilities and services in rural areas.
- Who applies
- All fifty states may apply. Each state may only submit one application. Only current SORH awardees, as designated by the Governor, may apply.
- Authorized by
- Public Health Service Act, Section 338J; 42 U.S.C. 254r, as amended by sec. P.L. 115-408
- Program site
- http://www.hrsa.gov/ruralhealth ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments