Utah Rural Health Transformation Program – RISE 2.5 Tier 2 Recruitment and Retention Subawards
The Association for Utah Community Health (AUCH) is administering the Tier 2 RISE 2.5 Recruit and Retain Initiative through Utah’s Rural Health Transformation Program. This is applicant-facing financial assistance for a restricted group of rural community health center and Indian Health Service/Tribal/Urban (I/T/U) organizations, not a government procurement or an open competition for all Utah clinics. It is a different applicant tier from the rural-hospital Tier 1 competition.
Who is eligible
According to the controlling AUCH program administrator, only these twelve named organizations are eligible: Carbon Medical Service Association; Community Health Center, Inc.; Creek Valley Health Clinic; Enterprise Valley Medical Clinic; Family Healthcare; FourPoints Health; Health West, Inc.; Mountainlands Family Health Center; Sacred Circle Healthcare; Two Rivers Community Health; Utah Navajo Health System; and Wayne Community Health Center. Each must satisfy the RISE 2.5 I/T/U Tier 2 list and be a qualifying FQHC and/or I/T/U organization operating in a rural Utah county. Organizations not on the published list are ineligible.
Funding and program period
An individual Tier 2 subaward minimum or maximum has not been established from the available controlling public summary. AUCH’s public statement references $5,766,435 in a broader CMS-funded award routed through Utah DHHS and UETN; this amount is not an individual Tier 2 applicant award and must not be substituted for one. Funded organizations enter a Memorandum of Understanding covering December 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027. Grant use is restricted to the approved recruitment and retention activities and each executed agreement. Matching percentages, detailed allowable line items and reimbursement procedures require confirmation in the current application, budget workbook and award terms; no undocumented amount or requirement is assumed here.
Deadline and application
AUCH’s official application webpage instructs eligible organizations to submit the completed Tier 2 application and budget support by email to rise@auch.org by midnight on November 20, 2026. The website does not identify the time zone or clarify whether midnight means the start or end of that date; applicants should confirm the exact cutoff with AUCH rather than assume. Written questions are accepted through November 17, 2026. An informational webinar is scheduled for November 5, 2026, at 2:30 p.m.; the page does not state a time zone for that webinar.
Compliance and documentation
Applicants must be in good standing for federal assistance, not debarred or suspended, comply with the RHTP award and 2 CFR Part 200, document program activities and costs, cooperate with monitoring and reporting (including quarterly/annual reports and site visits), and acknowledge federal support in public materials when awarded. Continued funding depends on performance and available funds. Download the original application Word form, detailed budget narrative workbook and W-9 from the official administrator’s webpage, and review any updated questions and answers. The application attachments were linked publicly but their complete file contents were not independently inspected in this review.
Official source and verification
Controlling state-authorized program administrator’s RISE 2.5 Tier 2 funding and application page: https://auch.org/rise/ . Research checked November 5, 2026 for the named eligible organizations, applicant tier, email submission instructions, deadline wording, program dates, and compliance terms. The detailed application and budget file requirements, individual cap and exact deadline clock interpretation still require review with the funder.