After GOP’s Historic Medicaid Cuts, Sen. Ossoff Delivering Federal Funding to Strengthen Georgia’s Rural Hospitals

Washington, D.C. - After Congressional Republican's historic cuts to Medicaid last year, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is delivering Federal funding to strengthen Georgia's rural hospitals.

Sen. Ossoff is delivering Federal funding to 18 rural hospitals across Georgia through the Rural Hospital Provider Assistance Program (RHPAP), a new program created earlier this year that offers Federal funding to rural hospitals to strengthen care and prevent hospital closures.

As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Sen. Ossoff helped pass into law funding for this new Federal grant program as part of the bipartisan government funding bill that became law on February 3, 2026.

According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), awarded hospitals may use this funding to retain physicians, nurses, and other health care providers, allowing hospitals to preserve essential services, including emergency, inpatient, and other critical health care services.

"Georgia's rural hospitals have been under strain for years, made worse by recent cuts to Medicaid. Bringing Republicans and Democrats in Congress together, I helped pass into law this new Federal funding to combat the GOP's Medicaid cuts and help strengthen Georgia's rural hospitals. Now the Federal funding is on its way," Sen. Ossoff said.

According to HHS and the Federal funding notice, each hospital is expected to receive the same amount of Federal funding, or roughly $187,500 in Federal funding ($24,750,000 split between 132 hospitals).

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Sen. Ossoff continues working to support Georgia's rural hospitals.

This year, Sens. Ossoff and Rev. Warnock brought Republicans and Democrats together to deliver health care upgrades for Southwest Georgia communities, including Federal funding to upgrade hospital infrastructure in Crisp County, deliver a new MRI machine to Irwin County, fund a new CT Scanner, mammogram machine, and ambulance in Clinch County, and purchase new medical equipment for maternal and neonatal care in Valdosta.

Sen. Ossoff also brought Republicans and Democrats together to expand health care services for families across North Georgia, including expanding health care transportation services in Rome, delivering a new Cardiac CT Scanner for a rural hospital in Union County, and delivering new equipment in Calhoun.

In 2024, Sen. Ossoff delivered Federal resources to Crisp Regional Hospital to help construct a new health clinic facility in Warwick, Georgia.

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