CHARLESTON — Gov. Patrick Morrisey said West Virginia will apply for federal dollars made possible by President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill for rural hospitals and health care access.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz announced Monday morning that the application process for the Rural Health Transformation Program was now open.

The $50 billion program is made possible by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, now called the Working Families Tax Cuts Act, which was passed by Congress and signed into law by Trump in July.

The Rural Health Transformation Program will provide $10 billion a year to states each federal fiscal year from 2026, which begins Oct. 1, through 2030. Half of th

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