Luka Ladan writes, "Giving pharmacists an expanded ability to help their patients is a great way to expand the supply of providers for individuals living with lifelong, manageable conditions."
While the state pours resources into curbing the use of opioids, the City of Missoula could make it easier for users to test their product for purity in an effort to reduce poisoning from other chemicals cut into the product.
Healthcare in Montana spends just about half of the state’s overall budget, costing Montana’s general fund – essentially the state’s checkbook – about $2.5 billion dollars a year.
The Missoula-based hospital said the $18 million project will include a 19,000 square-foot expansion and renovation of the current heart and vascular center.
During the first two years of the covid-19 pandemic, while the federal government was trying to prevent people on Medicaid from losing health coverage, Idaho dropped nearly 10,000 people from the safety-net program.