RHPS delivers the services rural health systems need, directly or through partners we trust, run by people who have done this work themselves.
RHPS is formed by people who have run rural hospitals and treated rural patients themselves, designed from the outset as a model built for national scale, not a local program that might expand later.
The problem we saw
A rural patient discharged with nowhere confirmed to go. A rural clinic that can't reach the specialist a patient needs. A rural workforce too thin to fill the next shift. The founding group behind RHPS did not arrive at this model from a whiteboard; its members include people who have run rural hospitals, a practicing physician, and people with direct experience in state Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) grant administration, each of whom had already spent a career on one piece of this same problem.
That vantage point showed the same gap from multiple directions: rural systems often can't build every capability they need in-house, whether that's discharge follow-up, specialist access, training capacity, or workforce support, and building each one from scratch is slow and expensive for an organization already stretched thin. What a patient is told they need and what actually reaches them are too often two different things.
RHPS was organized to close that gap directly, delivering the services rural organizations need, under a founding working agreement among its practitioner members. No legal entity has been formed yet.
How we work
RHPS delivers services directly wherever we have the practitioner capacity to do so: discharge placement, specialist access, case management, training and simulation, and workforce support. Where we don't yet have that capacity, we work through delivery partners we trust, rather than leaving an organization, or a patient, without an answer.
RHPS builds around the providers a rural community already knows, not around replacing them. The aim is care that actually reaches the patient, delivered close to home, not a referral that becomes their responsibility to chase down.
RHPS can also help identify and pursue the funding that pays for these services, for organizations that want that support. That capability sits alongside service delivery, not ahead of it.
Organizations choose what they need from the menu.
Brand pillars
- Direct delivery, real practitioners.
- Practitioners, not consultants.
- Provides and stands behind the work.
- Care completed, not just referred.
- Patient-first, always.
- Menu, not a mandate.
- National by design.
Where we work today
RHPS's founding practitioners are currently based in Oklahoma. That is a statement of current scope, not of ambition.
Oklahoma's Year 1 RHTP award is $223.5 million, the fifth largest in the nation, and the procurement windows have typically run six to eight weeks. Nationally, 39 of 50 states have already released at least one RHTP subrecipient funding opportunity as of July 2026, under a federal program built to distribute $50 billion over five years.
Founding Bench
Founding bench
RHPS was founded by a bench of eight practitioners, including individuals who have run rural hospitals, a practicing physician, and people with direct experience in state RHTP grant administration. RHPS is not yet publishing individual names or biographies for its founding practitioners.
The practitioners who built it, organized by the domain of the problem each one covers, are introduced on the Our People page.Start a conversation with RHPS
RHPS is early. It is a founding group of practitioners working under a founding working agreement, not a long-established institution. This page describes how we work.
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