Delaware RHTP — Rural Community Health Hubs (HSS26062)

HSS26062 funds mobile health units and non-traditional access points to bring primary care, behavioral health, and preventive services closer to rural residents in Kent and Sussex counties. At $5,483,730 — the third-largest competitive Year 1 solicitation among Delaware's six active RFPs — this is a substantial investment in alternative care delivery infrastructure.

Delaware's "Health Hubs" model moves care to where rural residents live and work rather than expecting rural populations to travel to fixed clinic sites. This is particularly important in Delaware's rural geography: Sussex County's agricultural communities include significant migrant farmworker populations and rural residents with limited transportation access. Mobile units that reach farmworker camps, rural crossroads communities, and underserved census tracts can dramatically increase access to primary care and prevention services that fixed facilities cannot reach.

The solicitation number is HSS26062-RURALCHHUB. Navigate to mmp.delaware.gov/Bids and search for this number to access the full RFP.

Expected eligible applicant types include FQHCs and FQHC look-alikes operating mobile health programs in rural Delaware; nonprofits operating community health navigation or mobile health services; community health organizations with existing rural Kent and Sussex presence; health systems operating mobile clinic services; local health departments with rural outreach programs; and behavioral health organizations with mobile or community-based service models. The "Health Hubs" framing — mobile units and non-traditional access points — suggests this solicitation may fund both mobile clinical units and fixed non-traditional locations (libraries, community centers, schools, churches) as care delivery sites.

Download the full RFP (HSS26062-RURALCHHUB) to confirm verbatim eligibility language and whether the solicitation covers one model, the other, or both.