Health

By the time Kiki Radermacher, a mental health therapist, arrived at a Missoula home on an emergency 911 call in late May, the man who had called for help was backed into a corner and yelling at police officers.

Patients in direct primary care and health care sharing ministries mostly miss out on consumer protections mandated by the Affordable Care Act, such as coverage of preexisting conditions and prohibitions against charging more based on gender.

After a months-long hiring process, Gallatin County will have a new public health officer.

Two universities are eyeing the chance to be the first to build a medical school in one of the few states without one. The jockeying of the two schools — one a nonprofit, the other for-profit — to open campuses in Montana highlights the rapid spread of for-profit medical learning centers des…

After leading residents from the first diagnosed case of COVID-19 in Gallatin County in March 2020 to the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in recent months, County Health Officer Matt Kelley is leaving his role.

The Gallatin County Commission and Bozeman City Commission are expected next week to appoint a new public health officer after the Gallatin City-County Board of Health recommended Lori Christenson to the position last week.