Indiana (IN)

What the state has obligated, by initiative

• ›Initiative 1: Growing Care Coordination: Medical Operations Coordination Center and Alternate Payment Model Feasibility Study$14,050,861

  Appropriate Care Availability · $14,050,861

  • Building a 24/7 statewide Medical Operations Coordination Center to streamline patient transfers, emergency medical service (EMS) coordination and hospital capacity monitoring, as well as launching an Alternate Payment Model feasibility study to support sustainable rural care delivery$14,050,861
• ›Initiative 2: Growing Community Connections through Indiana 211$635,678

  Fostering Collaboration · $81,370

  • Technical implementation support for hospital and healthcare provider integration activities$81,370

  IT Advances · $554,308

  • System enhancements through State’s software master agreement$554,308
• ›Initiative 3: Growing Improved Patient Outcomes Through Enhanced Interoperability and Technology$10,908,952

  IT Advances · $10,908,952

  • Expanding connections to the statewide Health Information Exchange so rural clinics, EMS, behavioral health and long-term-care providers can securely share patient information, reducing delays and improving care coordination$10,908,952
• ›Initiative 4: Growing Pediatric & Obstetric Readiness in Rural Emergency Departments$13,923,353

  Appropriate Care Availability · $11,423,353

  • Equipping rural emergency departments and EMS teams with training, standardized protocols and readiness certification to reduce preventable child deaths and improve maternal outcomes amid rising obstetrics (OB) unit closures$11,423,353

  Training and Technical Assistance · $2,500,000

  • Conducting OB and pediatric readiness needs assessment for pre-hospital EMS transport agencies via procured vendor to conduct assessments. Procure statewide software licensure for pediatric dosing technology and pediatric appropriate equipment for EMS agencies, including stocked equipment bags for EMS providers and training services$2,500,000
• ›Initiative 5: Growing Cardiometabolic Health Standards of Care in Rural Indiana$8,545,784

  Prevention and Chronic Disease · $8,545,784

  • Promoting access to chronic disease prevention in rural communities through cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome (CKM) Centers of Excellence, nutrition and physicalactivity supports, Food is Medicine planning and broad Lifestyle Medicine workforce training$8,545,784
• ›Initiative 6: Growing Access to Hospital Post-Discharge Medications$1,822,978

  Appropriate Care Availability · $1,822,978

  • Rural hospitals receive planning grants and implementation funding to ensure patients leave with needed medications at outpatient prices, reducing readmissions and supporting safe transitions of care$1,822,978
• ›Initiative 7: Growing Specialty Provider Access through Expanded Teleconsult Capabilities$91,676

  Appropriate Care Availability · $91,676

  • Assessing rural telehealth needs, launching regional pilots, and building statewide infrastructure to expand virtual care, reduce travel burdens, strengthen chronic disease management, and enable timely specialist support$91,676
• ›Initiative 8: Growing Telehealth Access and Infrastructure$3,717,938

  Appropriate Care Availability · $3,717,938

  • Assessing rural telehealth needs, launching regional pilots, and building statewide infrastructure to expand virtual care, reduce travel burdens, strengthen chronic disease management, and enable timely specialist support$3,717,938
• ›Initiative 9: Growing our Rural Health Paraprofessional Workforce$3,151,146

  Workforce · $3,151,146

  • Developing a statewide strategy to strengthen rural paraprofessional roles—such as community health workers—through employer support, workforce integration playbooks, rural healthcare academies and targeted recruitment and retention strategies$3,151,146
• ›Initiative 10: Growing Clinical Training and Readiness$18,074,557

  Workforce · $18,074,557

  • Providing rural physician training pathways, increasing clinical rotation capacity, offering incentives for rural practice and precepting, and investing in maternal-health training to address shortages and long travel distances for care$18,074,557
• ›Initiative 11: Growing our Rural Behavioral Health Workforce$130,580

  Workforce · $130,580

  • Providing project management support implementation for Initiative 11 activities, ensuring alignment with IN behavioral health workforce strategy and grant and program administration$130,580
• ›Initiative 12: Make Rural Indiana Healthy Again Regional Grants$122,119,132

  Prevention and Chronic Disease · $120,795,887

  • A five-year regional grant model designed to place local data, partnerships, and decision-making at the center of rural health transformation Training and Technical Assistance ($$1,323,245.04) § $ $1,323,245.04 for technical assistance support for eight rural regions to develop innovative and compliant proposals for the Growing Rural Opportunities for Wellbeing in Health (GROW) Regional Grants$120,795,887
• ›Program Operations$5,330,817

  Program Administration Expense · $5,330,817

  • Personnel, fringe, travel, and indirect costs for program-wide administrative staff$2,634,817
  • Project management, Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program reporting and compliance, operational support, scopes of work drafting, and budgeting and financial tracking across all GROW Initiatives to assist in planning and implementation of Budget Period 1 (BP1) activities$2,592,000
  • RHT Program-specific procurement and contracting activities. Funds provided to Indiana Department of Administrative Services via an interagency Memoranda of Understanding (MOU)$104,000