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Immediate impact: Crisis response team shares early success

The St. Peter’s Health Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT) program began partnering in November with local law enforcement agencies to provide crisis intervention services throughout the community. In less than four months since the program’s launch, our crisis response team can already see the tremendous impact the program is having on community mental health issues. The MCRT team has already ...

Important protection: COVID-19 vaccination and pregnancy

Ob/Gyn, pregnant medical assistant share vaccination stories Madison Ellison, a medical assistant at the St. Peter’s Health Medical Group – Broadway Clinic, didn’t hesitate to take the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine when it became available last winter. She not only wanted to help protect herself against the virus, but also help provide protection to vulnerable family members. When she found out ...

Improvement project to limit parking at Regional Medical Center May 27-June 2

May 27, 2021

St. Peter’s Health is restriping and resurfacing the parking lot at the Regional Medical Center (hospital) located at 2475 E. Broadway Street in Helena. Starting late Thursday, May 27, through ...

Improving Community Health: Clinical Pharmacy Manager recognized for antibiotic stewardship efforts

From the Helena Independent Record on July 29, 2019 Antibiotics can become ineffective when they are overused, and Thomas Richardson is working to help prevent that from happening in Helena and throughout the state. As the pharmacy clinical manager for St. Peter’s Health, Richardson launched the multi-disciplinary Antimicrobial Stewardship Program in 2015 to fight the antibiotic resistance epidemic. The team ...

Increasing influenza activity prompts visitor restrictions, flu clinic opening

In response to increasing flu activity in our community, St. Peter’s Health has instituted visitor restrictions at the Regional Medical Center, the Emergency Department and opened its seasonal Cold, Cough and Flu Clinic at the North Clinic located at 3330 Ptarmigan Lane in Helena. According to the latest State of Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services data, there ...

Independent features important Housing is Healthcare work by St. Peter’s FUSE team

Helena’s Frequent Users of System Engagement project helps people who are unhoused or unstably housed who often use the emergency room or other forms of crisis care at a disproportionate amount, but the past couple of years, the cost of housing in and around Helena has been a barrier that's difficult to overcome. “With the change in the rental market ...