645592 - FY26 RFP COMPADM26002 for Health Hub Technical Assistance Provider
Funding Opportunity Details

Healthy Hometowns

Final Application Deadline: Jan 5, 2026 4:00 PM

Description

• It is the responsibility of the Applicant to review all Attachments listed below for additional details regarding this Funding Opportunity.

  The issuance of this Funding Opportunity in no way constitutes a commitment by Iowa HHS to award a contract.

  Excerpts from the RFP:

  Purpose

  The purpose of this Request for Proposal (RFP) # COMPADM26002 is to solicit applications that will enable the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (referred to as Agency) to select the most qualified applicant to provide technical assistance to Rural Iowa healthcare organizations and providers. This technical assistance will support providers with planning, partnership building, assessment and evaluation, and overall implementation of Hub and Spoke models of care in the areas of maternal and child health, mental/behavioral health, cardiovascular health, and/or chronic disease prevention and management.  

  This technical assistance should allow Rural healthcare organizations to achieve success in future Health Hubs Projects of Iowa's Rural Health Transformation Grant. Activities in the Health Hubs Project will include the development of hub and spoke models for health care, including the development of rural provider strategic partnerships and agreements. It will also include developing and implementing arrangements for exchanging best practices, coordinating care across regions via telehealth and referral networks, expanding access to specialty services in a financially sustainable manner, streamlining or centralizing functions to create cost savings, improving the financial viability of rural providers, preserving independence of rural providers, keeping care local in rural communities when appropriate and possible, and developing models of sustainability for rural health care. The Contractor will support the Health Hubs on the items listed above, while also assisting with long-term sustainability planning, workforce development, and telehealth integration. This work implements a portion of the Hometown Connections initiative of the Iowa Healthy Hometowns Project, funded through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Rural Health Transformation Program, opportunity #: CMS-RHT-26-001. 

  Schedule of Important Dates  (All times and dates listed are local Iowa time.) 

  The following dates are set forth for informational purposes. The Agency reserves the right to change them. 

  EVENT	DATE
  RFP Issued	December 8, 2025
  Written Questions and Responses
  Round 1 Questions Due:  Responses Posted By:	December 10, 2025  December 12, 2025
  Final Questions Due:  Responses Posted By:	December 17, 2025  December 19, 2025
  Applications Due	January 5, 2026 by 4:00 PM Local Iowa Time
  Applicant’s Oral Presentations, if requested by the Agency	Anticipated January 26 and January 27, 2026; subject to change at the Agency’s discretion
  Post Notice of Intent to Award	On or around February 2, 2026

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