Ukhs Care Collaborative Association

Ukhs Care Collaborative Association, a Kansas-based nonprofit organization, operates exclusively as a federal grant sub-recipient, implementing rural healthcare workforce and care delivery programs under a $99 million sub-award portfolio funded by the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services through the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. All five of the vendor's awards share an April 20, 2026 award date and derive from a single primary grantee relationship.

Ukhs Care's federal footprint centers on rural health transformation (RHT) programming across five distinct sub-award scopes. The vendor implements rural residency program development (Program 3.1.1), including development of implementation plans, establishing administrative and technical assistance infrastructure, and engaging hospitals and medical schools to identify priorities for new ACGME-accredited rural residency programs. Ukhs Care administers provider capacity-building and Medicaid beneficiary engagement programs (Programs 4.1 and 4.4), managing participation agreements, hiring staff, developing performance measures, and coordinating with state Medicaid to deploy care management and care coordination services. The vendor also recruits and trains nurse navigators and schedules rural telehealth clinics (Program 5.2), and serves as lead implementer for a mobile integrated health (MIH) pilot program (Program 2.x), including identifying a pilot director, recruiting five participating communities, placing certified medical assistants, and defining data collection protocols. Across these programs, Ukhs Care enters into downstream subaward agreements with the University of Kansas Medical Center and Healthworks KHA Foundation, Inc. to implement complementary program components, and procures specialized goods and services from third-party vendors in compliance with federal procurement standards (2 CFR 200.317–200.327).

The vendor's customer base is concentrated entirely within the single HHS-CMS funding stream flowing through Kansas Department of Health and Environment. No recompete cliff information is available from the source. Ukhs Care's sub-recipient posture means it does not compete on federal contracts as a prime and does not hold seats on government-wide acquisition vehicles; the vendor operates as a rural health care implementation and administration organization serving state health departments and federal grant programs rather than as a traditional federal contractor.