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Health Matters: Colon cancer screening — understanding your options

As COVID-19 impacted the world, unfortunately, we watched colorectal cancer screening rates drastically decrease at the local and national levels. Reduced screening rates were caused, in part, by the reduced availability of services briefly in the spring of 2020. But sadly, even as care became available again, the rates have remained lower than usual. This Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, we're ...

Estate Planning: Let’s Not Make This Difficult

March 1, 2021

By Stephen Mason Vice President, St. Peter's Health Foundation Many times in our personal and professional lives we become overwhelmed with our responsibilities and the list of “to dos” that ...

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 ...

Whole family support: Caring through connection

As a Care Manager at St. Peter’s, Kelsey Kyle, RN, PMH-C is proud to say she’s dedicated her career to caring for families and children. She knows better than most how important this kind of care can be. Kelsey’s parents both struggled with addiction and mental health issues. She struggled with postpartum depression and has been on her own journey ...

Doing it Together: Helena Couple Successfully Quits Smoking

When Jess and Rob met nearly ten years ago, they both smoked cigarettes. Jess had smoked for around fifteen years, and Rob smoked double that – around thirty years. But when they look back at 2020 they will remember an unprecedented year in more ways than one -- not only the COVID-19 pandemic and its disruption of all elements of ...