Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) & Telehealth
618Today designs rural health and telehealth programs for hospitals, health systems, and county health organizations in Southern Illinois and the Metro East, and manages them from award through close-out.
618Today designs rural health and telehealth programs and manages them from award through close-out.
- Who it is for
- Rural hospitals, health systems, and county health organizations.
- What you get
- Solution and network design, telehealth program design, application and compliance support, and program management through close-out.
- How long it takes
- Set in the written scope, agreed before any work begins.
- What it costs
- Quoted in writing before work begins. Ask us for a quote.
An Illinois rural hospital working on RHTP?
ICAHN grants, Hospital Transformation Plans, and what to do after your digital readiness assessment. 618Today Inc. is an independent advisory firm and an ACHE member. It does not act for HFS, CMS, or ICAHN.
The problem we solve
Funding arrives. The infrastructure to use it does not.
Rural hospitals are handed transformation funding with no grants office, no program manager, and no analyst. The application is the visible work. The reporting, drawdown, subrecipient monitoring, and audit documentation that follow for years are the work that actually consumes the organization.
What we do
Solution & network design
Service line and access architecture, hub-and-spoke network structure, site and spoke selection, certificate-of-need sequencing, and access modeling.
Telehealth & virtual care design
Platform evaluation and selection, clinical anchoring, specialty coverage mapping, and vendor briefing and comparison.
Program management
The program office for funded transformation work: work plans, budgets and proformas, milestone tracking, partner and subrecipient coordination, decision logs, and reporting.
Partnership & governance design
Regional compacts, multi-party governance, partner qualification against funder eligibility rules, letters of support, and shared-service structures.
Application & compliance support
Narrative and budget development, portal entry management, readiness scoring, and state compliance prerequisites including GATA and the Internal Controls Questionnaire.
How the practice works
Most advisors stop at submission. That is where your risk begins.
Assess
What the organization can realistically build, staff, and sustain, before deciding what to propose.
Design
The program itself: structure, partners, sites, platform, and the sequence.
Fund
Narrative, budget, partner letters, portal submission, and the compliance prerequisites that block submission if missed.
Run
The program office through delivery, reporting, and close-out.
Boundaries
What is in scope, and what is not
A practice that appears to do everything reads as doing nothing in particular. These are the lines we hold.
| In scope | Out of scope |
|---|---|
| Program and network design | Clinical protocol or care pathway authorship |
| Telehealth platform selection and clinical anchoring | Software resale or implementation services |
| Program management for funded work | Interim clinical or executive staffing |
| Partner and governance structure | Legal opinions and certificate-of-need filings themselves |
| Work plans, budgets, milestones, reporting | Audit attestation |
Why us
We are based in the 618 and we work here. We know how far a patient actually travels, what a workforce this size supports, and which decisions a hospital board can actually make.