Due to increased illness in our community, visitor restrictions are in place at the Regional Medical Center. Children 12 and under, as well as anyone with cold and flu-like symptoms are restricted from visiting the Regional Medical Center unless they are seeking care. Click here to learn more Haven't gotten your flu shot yet? Learn about St. Peter's walk-in flu shot clinic.
As we look to other health systems in the East and South, we’re seeing a significant uptick in adult and pediatric hospitalizations due to common illnesses such as influenza, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), rhinovirus and COVID-19. While we haven’t yet seen a drastic increase in those numbers locally, we are preparing for what we think will could be a rough ...
Physician Assistant Adrienne Bull earned her Master of Physician Assistant Studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, after completing her undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from Montana State University. She has prior experience in rural family medicine and neurosurgery. Adrienne is certified by the National Commission for the Certification of Physician Assistants. She is accepting new patients at the ...
September 6, 2022
St. Peter's Health announced today the purchase of Creative Horizons Learning Center, a Helena child care center located at 3430 Ptarmagin Lane near the health system's North Clinic and Physical ...
Hearing loss is like a silent predator, it sneaks up on you. It is usually very gradual and people, often times unknowingly, develop compensation strategies to deal with it. These strategies can include lip reading, avoidance of difficult situations and increasing the volume on their TV or radio. Unfortunately, these strategies will only take you so far. Hearing loss and ...
St. Peter’s Health presented BEE Awards to Lead Environmental Services Aide Sarah Roll and Health Unit Coordinator Sharla Suurendonk. A companion to the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses, the BEE Award is given to any exceptional general or professional St. Peter’s staff member nominated by patients, family members and/or colleagues. A nurse on the St. Peter’s Behavioral Health Unit (BHU) ...
May 4, 2022
St. Peter’s Health is inviting the community to participate in the local health care system’s fourth annual HealthyWage 60-Day Step Challenge. Registration is open now. The challenge officially starts May ...
According to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN), sexual violence is defined as an all-encompassing, non-legal term that refers to crimes like sexual assault, rape or sexual abuse and intimate partner sexual violence. It can occur any time a person is forced, coerced, and/or manipulated into any unwanted sexual activity. Montana’s criminal code defines sexual violence as sexual ...
Having been on the market for over a decade now, many of us have at least some familiarity with vaping. Whether it is because you or a loved one use the products, or you’ve seen the big blooms of vapor being exhaled from someone in public, they seem to be more and more common. So what exactly is vaping? Vaping ...
St. Peter’s Health is a proud affiliate of Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah. As such, St. Peter’s is given access to articles, resources, clinical expertise and research to share with our local community. Every year, around 145,000 Americans are diagnosed with colorectal cancer. More than 50,000 people die from it. But the good news is that colorectal ...
America is in the midst of an epidemic and in this article we’re not referring to the still-global COVID-19 pandemic. There is another well-rooted epidemic in our country that impacts the health of millions and shows no sign of letting up: obesity. According to the Center for Disease Control, over 42% of Americans qualified as obese in 2018. Another 20% ...