Alabama plans to spend $203 million federal grant on rural health, workforce

By: Anna Barrett

Outlets: Alabama Reflector

Published: February 5, 2026

Words: 834

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 4 days ago

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A state official Wednesday briefed lawmakers on the state’s plans to spend just over $200 million in federal grants meant to partially offset Medicaid cuts, mostly on rural health and workforce.

Kenneth Boswell, director of the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA), told a group of lawmakers that make up the Alabama Rural Health Transformation Advisory Group the distribution of the awarded funds between the 11 initiatives the state submitted in its …

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