Tennessee is receiving $206.9 million from the Rural Health Transformation Program, and lawmakers are calling on state health officials to ensure the money is truly "transformational."
The money is from a $50 billion initiative approved as part of the Working Families Tax Cuts legislation. States were required to submit applications that identified how the money would be spent.
The Tennessee Department of Health outlined a strategy for the grant fund that focused on five different areas: Rural Health Transformation, Maternal and Child Health, Technology Infrastructure, Make Rural Tennessee Healthy Again and Workforce Development.
The Joint Finance Ways and Means Committee agreed to receive the money but had several questions.
