{"id":101769,"date":"2025-12-31T23:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/101769\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T23:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:57:07","slug":"florida-awarded-209-million-in-federal-funding-for-health-care-in-rural-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/101769\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida awarded $209 million in federal funding for health care in rural areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG\/WECP) &#8211; Governor Ron DeSantis announced on December 31st that Florida has been awarded over $209 million in federal funding to improve health care in rural areas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flgov.com\/eog\/news\/press\/2025\/florida-awarded-209-million-through-federal-rural-health-transformation-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.flgov.com\/eog\/news\/press\/2025\/florida-awarded-209-million-through-federal-rural-health-transformation-program\">press release from the governor\u2019s office<\/a>, the funding will help Florida improve healthcare in rural areas by hiring and training additional staff, upgrading technology, and expanding access to services. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Agency for Health Care Administration (Agency) will soon release procurements for the RHTP across the state. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To stay up to date on all the latest news as it develops, follow WJHG on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NEWS7\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wjhgtv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WJHG_TV\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WJHG_TV\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Have a news tip or see an error that needs correction? Email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjhg.com\/2025\/12\/31\/florida-awarded-209-million-federal-funding-health-care-rural-areas\/mailto:news@wjhg.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news@wjhg.com<\/a>. Please include the article\u2019s headline in your message.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Keep up with all the biggest headlines on the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wjhg-news\/id420768788\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wjhg-news\/id420768788\" target=\"_blank\">WJHG News app<\/a>, and check out what\u2019s happening outside using the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wjhg-weather\/id1358847597\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wjhg-weather\/id1358847597\" target=\"_blank\">WJHG Weather app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WJHG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG\/WECP) &#8211; Governor Ron DeSantis announced on December 31st that Florida has been awarded over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[53243,53242,28,30,29,5620,6584,6538],"class_list":["post-101769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-209-million","tag-awarded-federal-funding","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-governor-desantis","tag-health-care","tag-rural-areas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}