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St. Peter’s Health Association Celebrates 68th Annual “Arlene Mathews Sock Sew”

Volunteers sew handmade stockings gifted to hospitalized community members and newborns during the month of December St. Peter’s Health Association “Arlene Mathews Sock Sew” volunteers are celebrating 68 years of making handmade stockings for those who are hospitalized at St. Peter’s Health and babies born in the month of December at the Regional Medical Center (hospital). The tradition was started ...

St. Peter’s Hinrichs, Bradley Receive DAISY Awards for Extraordinary Nurses

St. Peter’s Health Registered Nurses Rhonda Hinrichs and Samantha Bradley received DAISY Awards for Extraordinary Nurses. DAISY awardees are selected quarterly from nominations submitted by St. Peter’s patients and their family members. Hinrichs is the St. Peter’s Practice Administrator for Primary and Urgent Care and has been a registered nurse for 35 years. A local couple nominated Hinrichs after she ...

St. Peter’s Welcomes New Gastroenterology and Urgent Care Providers, Gina Deem, DNP, FNP-C and Ashley Vander Sys, PA

St. Peter’s Health Medical Group welcomes Urgent Care Nurse Practitioner Gina Deem and Gastroenterology Physician Assistant Ashley Vander Sys. Deem earned her Doctor of Nursing, Accelerated Bachelor of Nursing and her Bachelor of Science in Health and Human Development at Montana State University. She is a certified member of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and will practice at both ...

Light Display at Civic Center to Honor Lost Loved Ones

Annual Light a Life Fundraiser Supports St. Peter’s Health Hospice Program The St. Peter’s Health Foundation is encouraging the community to donate to Light a Life - Helena’s only fundraising event for St. Peter’s Hospice. Light a Life gifts make end-of-life care available to anyone in our community, regardless of their ability to pay. St. Peter’s Director of Post-Acute Care ...

Health Matters: Aren’t you sweet enough? 

“Life is short, make it sweet” is a quote displayed artistically in countless bakeries and cupcake shops to entice us to consume edible sweets. According to recent research, Americans have certainly taken heed because sugar consumption in the U.S. has increased more than 20 percent over the last three decades. Recent recommendations suggest reducing sugar consumption to no more than ...

St. Peter’s Earns Recognition for Heart Attack Care

December 2, 2021

American Heart Association Presents St. Peter’s Health with Mission Lifeline: Gold Receiving Quality Achievement Award St. Peter’s Health announced today that the local health care system received the 2021 Mission ...

Health Matters: Diabetes and wound prevention

Co-authored by St. Peter’s Nurse Practitioner Andeelyn Wardell and St. Peter’s Wound Care Center Program Director Jane O’Driscoll, PT, WCC, CLT-LANA, CSWS There are 34.2 million Americans who are diabetic and 64,000 of those are Montanans. We know that diabetes is associated with health issues such as neuropathy, causing sensation loss in hands and feet; and peripheral vascular disease, causing ...