Gov. Kay Ivey has announced a working group that will advise state leaders on Alabama’s application to receive a portion of the $50 billion rural health fund.

The Rural Health Transformation Program is part of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which will allocate money to rural health care to offset Medicaid cuts in the budget law.

“Thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill, Alabama and states across the country have an opportunity to make meaningful improvements in our rural healthcare systems,” Ivey said in a statement. “Alabama is a very rural state, and my goal is to ensure rural Alabamians have long-term and sustainable access to quality healthcare services.”

Alabama’s team that will work on the state plan for the money includes Ivey, the State Health Planning and Dev

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