BUFFALO — The Wyoming Department of Health is hearing similar comments about the state of rural health care from communities around the state as it works to quickly craft an application for federal grant funding.

Officials with the department visited Buffalo on Sept. 18 as part of its attempt to gauge needs and input on rural health care before applying for a portion of $50 billion that will be allocated to states via the Rural Health Transformation Program established in the One Big Beautiful Bill, the Trump administration’s budget package passed this summer.

Franz Fuchs, deputy director of the Wyoming Health Department, told nearly 20 attendees at Bomber Mountain Civic Center on Thursday night that Wyoming is eligible to receive $500 million to $800 million in federal dollars over the

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