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Medical student Ruby Gawarkiewicz recently completed a four-week rotation at Northern Montana Health Care, gaining hands-on clinical experience and exploring different fields she could pursue as a physician. She said she has loved every minute of it. "It's been so hands-on, which has been amazing," she said last week during her final week in the Rural Underserved Opportunities Program (RUOP) at NMHC. "More hands-on than any of my other clinical experiences. And I'm learning so much." RUOP was...
Dr. Kevin Harada, MD, CEO and President of Northern Montana Health Care, said his recent appointment to a state advisory board on a new federal health program is a great opportunity to improve rural health care in the state. Dr. Harada is one of twenty-five members named to the Advisory Council of the state Rural Health Transformation Program Center of Excellence. The board will advise the state Department of Public Health and Human Services Center of Excellence, which was created with the...
Northern Montana Health Care marked a national milestone today, becoming the first health care system in the nation to use a new computer-assisted system designed to help detect suspected colorectal polyps during an endoscopy. Dr. Damian Ymzon, MD, used the CADDIE™ Device Computer-assisted Detection system during an endoscopic procedure Wednesday, July 22. "This new AI-augmented system will help better detect polyps or other abnormalities in the colon," Ymzon said. "I am happy that we can b...
Dr. Thomas "Tom" Reid III, MD, PhD, FACP, said that after spending more than two months as medical director of the Northern Montana Sletten Cancer Center, one of his main goals is to let people know what they have here. "What I want this Sletten Cancer Center to be here in Havre is, basically, the go-to place, the center of excellence, for cancer treatments, blood disorder treatments, for northern Montana," he said, "and the fact that people feel comfortable coming here and they would send...
The Northern Montana Health Care Foundation is helping support the next generation of nurses through a scholarship program designed to ease the financial burden of nursing education while strengthening the local health care workforce. Northern Montana Health Care Chief Operating Officer and Foundation Executive Director Christen Obresley said the Foundation has offered nursing scholarships for approximately 20 years. The program provides up to $7,500 annually for up to two years to students enrolled in any accredited nursing program. In...
An anonymous donor has made a major donation to the Havre Women's Golf Association (HWGA) Assistance Fund in honor of the Northern Montana Sletten Cancer Center's new doctor. The donor gifted $25,000 in honor of Dr. Thomas J. Reid III, MD, PhD, FACP, to be designated specifically to the assistance fund "and to welcome him to his new chapter." Dr. Reid took over as the Northern Montana Sletten Cancer Center's medical oncologist and hematologist in April. The HWGA Assistance Fund grants up to $500...
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...
