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People having trouble sleeping or having issues like daytime drowsiness may be suffering from a common and potentially serious condition called sleep apnea – and a lab right in Havre can diagnose and find treatment for it. The Hi-Line Sleep Disorders Center at Northern Montana Health Care is an American Academy of Sleep Medicine-certified laboratory that can find out if people have sleep apnea or other sleep disorders, giving a report to their doctor to prescribe the best treatment to try to solve the problem. The lab is a referral program, w...

Jean Winchell, RN, is celebrating a momentous milestone this year – 50 years working at Northern Montana Hospital. Winchell said in an interview that the five decades she has worked in health care has seen a lot of changes, and she has made many friends in co-workers and patients. "Your co-workers become your family, your work family," Winchell said. She said she also attends the Oldies Luncheon that is held every couple of months. "Anybody that used to work here is welcome to come back and j...

Northern Montana Health Care and District 4 Human Resources Development Council's Community Food Bank are teaming up to help improve health in the area. Northern Montana Health Care Director of Clinical Nursing Katie Kimberling and Chief Operating Officer Christen Obresley delivered cooking and eating supplies to the Food Bank June 1 as a part of the state Department of Public Health and Human Services Food Farmacy program. The program was established by the state as a way to provide healthier...

Super Hero nurses were honored at Northern Montana Health Care May 5-8, starting with a taco bar and a chance to be photographed in super hero costumes on Cinco de Mayo, Tuesday, May 5. Dairy Queen Dilly Bars were delivered to nurses starting at 11:30 a.m. and 9 p.m. Wednesday, and the nurses had a live treat Thursday. Bear Paw Bowls was on the health care system's campus serving its Acai Bowls and local pet rescue mission 406 K9 Rescue brought puppies for a Puppy Pet Refresh next to the food...
Users of Northern Montana Health Care’s patient portal are seeing some changes to the system, and NHMC is working to get more people signed into the upgraded system. NMHC has made upgrades effective April 20 to its online patient-health care link Patient Portal, and is planning to make some more to increase ease and benefits to its patients. The portal, now MyHealth, has a new look and new functions, NMHC Patient Access Director Patti Nault said. Nault added that she likes the new look of the portal. “It just looks a little different,” she s...

Work on a project that will more than double and upgrade the space Northern Montana Hospital has for Operating Rooms and Intensive Care Units took a significant step forward this month with the first concrete pour at the expansion site. The project, with Sletten Construction as the primary contractor, officially broke ground March 16, with work beginning the following day. Crews quickly got to work preparing the site, including demolishing the walkway that had connected the hospital to the...