Billings Clinic

With medical visits picking up again among patients vaccinated against COVID-19, health providers are starting to see the consequences of a year of pandemic-delayed preventive and emergency care as they find more advanced cancer and rotting and damaged teeth, among other ailments.

Montana lawmakers are considering bills to expand who is eligible for vaccine-mandate exemptions in workplaces and schools.

Starting Tuesday, Billings Clinic, St. Vincent Healthcare and RiverStone Health will staff Cedar Hall on the MetraPark fairgrounds, where they’ll administer first doses to residents in the Phase 1B category three days a week by appointment only.

Even with vaccine doses rolling out, testing is still critical for tracing and containing the coronavirus. But throughout 2020 , the White House...

Montana’s frontline health care workers are receiving their second doses of COVID-19 vaccines, guaranteeing fewer will become infected with the virus....

Montana’s health department Tuesday endorsed guidance for medical providers potentially facing a scarcity of medical supplies, space and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The two large hospital systems in Billings are busy administering nearly 2,000 COVID-19 vaccines this week. The first jabs were met with joy and celebration.

More than 3,000 people in Montana have been hospitalized with severe cases of COVID-19. One hospital in Billings has started celebrating each recovered patient's return home with a new code: Joy. YPR New’s Nicky Ouellet reports on Billings Clinic’s send off for one of their own.

State officials on Dec. 7 announced which hospitals will get Montana’s first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines.

Two-hundred traveling medical workers deploying to Montana hospitals hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic will arrive before Thanksgiving. Governor...