Sparta Community Hospital District

Sparta Community Hospital District, operating as Steeleville Clinic, is a critical-access district hospital in Sparta, Illinois, that receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient under the Delta Health Systems Implementation Program (CFDA 93.619) administered by the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration through the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy. The organization operates six rural health clinics across southwest Illinois and competes exclusively in the healthcare delivery and grant-funded rural health modernization space rather than in federal contracting.

Sparta Community Hospital District's federal footprint consists entirely of three project grants from a single customer agency — the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration — awarded between September 2023 and September 2026, with combined obligated dollars of $1.5 million. All work is performed as prime recipient; the organization carries no subcontract awards in the source data. The most recent grant award, dated September 1, 2026, carries $350,000 in funding over a two-year period (September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2028) for an electronic health record assessment and modernization project. That award follows a September 2024 grant for a chronic care management program serving underserved rural populations across Randolph, Washington, St. Clair, Jackson, and Perry Counties in southwest Illinois, with work extending through August 2027. A third grant award from September 2023 completed in April 2026.

The organization's grant work centers on modernizing health information technology infrastructure, deploying data analytics for chronic disease management and preventative care, enhancing revenue cycle management through automation, and expanding behavioral health and specialty services to rural and underserved populations. Two awards face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and present recompete opportunity in the Delta Health Systems Implementation Program pipeline.