Project Grant P1355802

The Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Professionals awarded the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) $750,000 on August 1, 2026, under the Rural Residency Planning and Development Program (HRSA-26-047) to plan and develop a new rural preventive medicine residency program in Nevada.

NNPHI, a nonprofit public health institute headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, will partner with the Northern Nevada Institute for Public Health (NPHI), based in Gardnerville, Nevada, as the implementing partner and with William Bee Ririe Hospital, a rural critical access hospital, as the clinical training site. The program targets White Pine, Churchill, Mineral, Eureka, and Pershing counties in Nevada and seeks initial ACGME accreditation for a public health and general preventive medicine residency in the general primary care and high-need specialty pathway. The sponsoring institution will be confirmed during year one, with Roseman University College of Medicine as the lead candidate. The program projects three residents in the first class, scaling to up to six once fully established, with initial ACGME accreditation targeted by August 31, 2029, and the first resident class anticipated to matriculate in academic year 2029–2030.

The award period runs September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2029. Sustainability will rely on critical access hospital reasonable-cost reimbursement and public/private funding mechanisms.