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Community paramedicine and Rural Health Transformation in Arkansas

Who administers the program, how a community paramedicine service line is usually positioned, and what a subrecipient will need to report.

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Program
Rural Health Transformation, FY2026–2030
Lead agency
Arkansas's Rural Health Transformation program office
Award
Confirm against the CMS award notice before citing a figure.
Reporting
Quarterly progress plus annual reporting; records kept at least three years.

Who runs Rural Health Transformation here?

Arkansas's Rural Health Transformation program office

How much did the state receive?

First-year award announced Dec 29, 2025. Per-state awards ranged from $147M to $281M; confirm this state's figure against the CMS award notice before citing it.

What the sources say

  • $10 million funds an EMS Coordinated Network for Emergency Navigation, Community Care and Telehealth.
  • The network covers telehealth, connectivity, patient monitoring, data sharing and a Patient Navigation Hub.

The Arkansas angle

Arkansas is funding a coordination layer explicitly, navigation, monitoring and data sharing, which is the shape of work DispatchCare supports as a vendor to a subrecipient.

Sources

Scope of practice in Arkansas

These mission templates are the ones we would enable first in AR. Everything else in the catalog is available once the state EMS office and your medical director confirm scope.

Enabled by default

Confirm with the Arkansas EMS office

  • A5 Post-surgical wound / ortho check
  • A8 Hospital-at-home in-person visit
  • C1 Low-acuity assessment, treat-in-place
  • C2 IV fluids, antiemetic or antibiotic dose at home
  • C4 SNF / ALF acute-change assessment
  • C5 Dialysis missed-treatment check
  • D1 Point-of-care labs / blood draw
  • D2 12-lead ECG at home
  • D3 Injection administration
  • D4 Wound care / dressing change
  • D5 Catheter / ostomy care
  • E1 Postpartum blood-pressure check
  • F1 Palliative symptom visit
  • F2 After-hours hospice response

Scope-dependent work, point-of-care draws, injections, IV doses, catheter care and treat-in-place, varies by state and by medical director. We do not assert scope on your behalf.

How a CP program is usually positioned

A hospital, EMS agency or health system acts as the subrecipient. The subaward funds the new service line: staff time in a new role, the coordination layer that gets referrals to them, and the evaluation work that proves the program did something.

Vendors sit under the subrecipient. VectorCare contracts as a vendor or subcontractor and does not administer funds or determine allowability, Arkansas's approved plan and CMS rules do that.

Verify Arkansas specifics

Confirm the award amount, the plan's priority areas and the subaward process against the CMS award notice and the state's published materials before relying on them.
What you will report

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Getting started in Arkansas

Three steps that shorten the runway.

  1. 01

    Name the cohort

    One population, one referral source, one countable outcome.

  2. 02

    Line up the referral path

    Decide which hospital sends referrals and from which system.

  3. 03

    Write the evaluation in

    Agree the measures before the first visit, not after the first quarter.

Questions buyers ask

Software, onboarding and evaluation for new or expanded CP programs are commonly budgeted as subaward lines under a state's RHT plan. DispatchCare is a vendor or subcontractor to the subrecipient; eligibility is determined by your state's plan and CMS rules.

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