The University of Montana recently secured $3.6 million from the Health Resource and Service Administration to bolster the nursing workforce across Big Sky Country.
One freshman member of the Missoula City Council voted against paying the city's bills this week while criticizing what he believes is a lack of transparency in the budgeting process.
Amid a nationwide shortage of veterinarians, the executive director of the Human Society of Western Montana said she is also seeing the squeeze across Montana, where people are struggling to get veterinary care.
Montana’s state health department proposed developing standards for community benefit spending after a 2020 legislative audit found nonprofit hospitals’ reporting vague and inconsistent.
Laws and policies, and statements used to justify them, reflect misconceptions and misinformation that conflate treatments and strip trans youth of essential care.
Nicole Smith writes: Despite their attempts, our state constitution guarantees the right to privacy and the courts continue to uphold our right to make personal medical decisions."