WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 -- Sen. John Hoeven issued the following news release:
Senator John Hoeven today held a press conference with Governor Kelly Armstrong and Pat Traynor, Interim Commissioner of the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services, to set the goal of securing $1 billion for rural health transformation in North Dakota. Hoeven congratulated Governor Armstrong and his team on putting forward an excellent application that resulted in a $200 million award from the One Big Beautiful Bill (OB3) for the first year of the five-year Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), which is $100 million above the program's baseline funding. The additional funds were awarded on a competitive basis, reflecting the merits of the state's ...