Grassley Welcomes $216 Million in Federal Funds for Iowa Rural Healthcare, Delivered by Republicans’ Working Families Tax Cuts Law

Grassley Welcomes $216 Million in Federal Funds for Iowa Rural Healthcare, Delivered by Republicans' Working Families Tax Cuts Law

WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, welcomed news that Iowa will receive $216 million in additional federal funding from Republicans' Working Families Tax Cuts Act to strengthen rural healthcare across the state. The funding will be disbursed through the law's Rural Health Transformation Program and will help provide for workforce recruitment and retention, medical equipment and cancer care across Iowa.

Last month, Grassley led the entire Iowa congressional delegation in a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) supporting Iowa's latest funding request for the program. With this announcement, Republicans' Working Families Tax Cuts law has now invested $425 million into rural healthcare in Iowa.

"Under Republican leadership, Congress delivered the largest investment in rural healthcare in American history, which every Democrat in Congress opposed. I'm glad to see the Working Families Tax Cuts Act continue improving Iowans' lives by investing $216 million more to support healthcare workforce recruitment and retention, cancer care access, maternal health and modernized medical equipment. In the years ahead, Iowans can look forward to sustained funding from Republicans' historic law that will strengthen care close to home," Grassley said.

Background:
The Grassley-backed Working FamiliesTax Cuts law included the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program to ensure hospitals, nursing homes, community health clinics and other rural providers can continue serving their communities and improving care. Over a five-year period, Iowa will receive, at a minimum, $100 million annually from this fund. Last year, Iowa was awarded $209 million for the first year of the program.

Grassley has repeatedly highlighted the positive impacts of the program's investments in Iowa. At his 99 county meetings this year, Grassley witnessed the benefits of this funding firsthand, including during Q&As at hospitals in Cass, Cerro Gordo, Fayette, Grundy, Kossuth, Lucas, Mahaska, Poweshiek, Sioux and Webster counties.

In May, Grassley wrote an op-ed published in the Cedar Rapids Gazette detailing how the program is improving access to care in Iowa.

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