Northern Montana Hospital provides compassionate, acute care services to the people of North Central Montana. Our Hospital is the center of a comprehensive system of medical services, staffed with health care professionals that meet the growing needs of our Hi-Line communities. We provide emergency, podiatry, obstetrics/gynecology, family medicine, internal medicine, imaging, in-patient and out-patient surgical services, orthopedics, pharmacy, home-health, sleep study center, dialysis, behavioral health, hospice, and oncology services. Our Care Center offers assisted living, long-term care, and respite care in a compassionate environment with planned activities and pastoral care. If you have a question, concern or comment, please e-mail us here.

Hi-Line Sletten Cancer Center is open in Havre!

The Hi-Line Sletten Cancer Center was realized by three unique entities with a shared vision: The Sletten Cancer Institute, of Great Falls; Northern Montana Health Care Foundation (NMHC), and Northern Montana Hospital (NMH) of Havre.…with a unified voice and a unified goal: to give cancer patients access to the best in cancer care close to home.  Northern Montana Hospital contracted with Sletten Construction Companies to build-to-suit to the specifications of the Sletten Cancer Institute.  The Sletten Cancer Institute will operate the Hi-Line Sletten Cancer Center.

Havre, MT – On August 11, 2008 Thomas Reuters announced Northern Montana Hospital’s leadership team was selected for the 2007 Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals® Performance Improvement Leaders Award, and Northern Montana Hospital and its senior management team were recognized for being one of a hundred hospitals making the greatest progress in improving hospital-wide performance over five consecutive years (2002-2007).

The 2007 Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®: Performance Improvement Leaders have set national benchmarks for the rate and consistency of improvement in clinical outcomes, safety, hospital efficiency, and financial stability. Northern Montana Hospital and its medical staff have made major strides in increasing the quality and efficiency of services locally.
“Our Board of Trustees, medical staff, and entire organization has been diligent in their efforts to improve and sustain best practices for the people of our communities,” said David Henry, President/CEO of Northern Montana Hospital.
The study rated hospitals on eight factors — patient mortality, medical complications, patient safety, length of stay, expenses, profitability, cash-to-debt ratio, and use of evidence-based medicine.
“This study identifies superior leadership, based on the success of hospital executive teams’ long-term strategies for strengthening performance,” said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president for performance improvement and 100 Top Hospitals programs at Thomson Reuters. “They have instilled a true culture of performance improvement across their organization over five consecutive years (2002-2007).
Findings from the fifth edition of the Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®: Performance Improvement Leaders study appears in the August 11, 2008, issue of Modern Healthcare magazine.
The Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals: Performance Improvement Leaders study analyzed acute care hospitals nationwide using detailed empirical performance data from years 2002 through 2006, including publicly available Medicare MedPAR data, Medicare cost reports, and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) outpatient data.
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Additional information can be found at http://www.100tophospitals.com
Contacts: Gina Barker, Public Relations, NMH, barkgina@nmhcare.org, (406) 262-1422
David Wilkins, Thomson Reuters (734) 913-3397, david.wilkins@thomsonreuters.com