ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND — Maryland is putting $16.4 million in new workforce grants toward rural health-care shortages, with recipients across all of the state's rural regions.
Gov. Wes Moore and the Maryland Department of Labor announced the awards Oct. 14 under the Maryland Rural Health Transformation Program. The money funds Pathways to Health Careers for faster entry-level and peer-support training and Rural Incentives for Strengthening Employment in Healthcare (RISE) to recruit and retain nurses, physician assistants, physicians and dentists, the release says.
Recipients include county health departments, community colleges and local maternal and mental-health organizations across all rural Maryland regions, according to the announcement. One example named in the release is the University of Maryland Eastern Shore's Eastern Shore Health Careers Pipeline Program, which will prepare students in grades 6 through 12 for priority health jobs through career awareness, readiness work and near-peer mentorship.
Maryland received $168 million in federal Rural Health Transformation Program funds for the first budget period in December 2025, renewable over five years, the release says. The Maryland Department of Health facilitates the wider program; Labor coordinates workforce pieces.
The release says a full list of grant recipients is available on the Maryland Department of Labor's program website.
Source: Office of Gov. Wes Moore
Also: Office of Gov. Wes Moore (2)
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