Health

Gallatin County Healthy Officer Lori Christenson is recommending people again wear masks in indoor public spaces — fully vaccinated or not — amid a 50% increase in COVID-19 cases counts over the last two weeks.

Gallatin County saw a slight uptick in daily COVID-19 case numbers this past week while the county-wide vaccination rate remained largely unchanged.

DUTTON — Vern Greyn was standing in the raised bucket of a tractor, trimming dead branches off a tree, when he lost his balance. He fell 12 feet and struck his head on the concrete patio outside his house in this small farming town on the central Montana plains.

Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital paid $2 million to the family of a former Montana State University football player who died in the hospital in 2015. The family sued after his death, claiming that negligence on his doctors’ part led to his death.

This year there have been 22 fentanyl-related fatalities confirmed by the state crime lab, according to a press release Monday.

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.