Angie Jacobs-Ferris

The Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program for West Virginia aims to improve health outcomes, strengthen the rural workforce, and build a self-reliant economy through prevention, innovation, and partnership. Key strategic priorities include addressing health-related barriers to workforce participation, establishing West Virginia as a center for rural health technology innovation and partnership, and strengthening rural healthcare access while building a sustainable care delivery system. The plan is structured around seven key initiatives: Connected Care Grid, Rural Health Link, Mountain State Care Force, Smart Care Catalyst, Health To Prosperity Pipeline, Personal Health Accelerator, and HealthTech Appalachia, with target metrics spanning improved chronic disease control, reduced obesity, reduced Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) births, improved healthcare access, enhanced patient satisfaction, increased provider capacity, better clinician retention, improved rural healthcare's financial sustainability, and increased adoption of evidence-based solutions.