Like CPR, Youth Mental Health First Aid teaches parents and other adults who work with young people to recognize and respond to a mental health crisis. More about the free, eight-hour training can be found in
Children often enter foster care with significant untreated medical and dental needs. A partnership between the Montana Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child and Family Services in Billings and RiverStone Health helps make
Many of us struggle to help care for family members while juggling work and family life. From personal experience, our nurse supervisor of Home Care Services knows about the stress caregivers may feel. “The best way
Raw milk and products made from raw milk are more likely to be contaminated with harmful bacteria than pasteurized milk. The top pathogens, or germs, linked to raw milk disease outbreaks between 2007 and 2012 were
Investing in Montana’s medical residencies makes economic sense. The residencies in Billings and Western Montana help recruit, train and retain primary care doctors to practice in Montana since the majority of those doctors settle in Montana
Making 21 the minimum age to buy tobacco makes sense because experimentation with tobacco at a young age often turns to daily use between the ages of 18 and 21. Four out five users become daily
Montana’s suicide rate of 26 deaths per 100,000 is twice the national average and the rate is even higher among the elderly and American Indian youths.
Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of both men and women, but the symptoms vary greatly between the sexes. Find out more in this column written by one of our physicians in the Montana Family
Seat belt use is the single most effective way to prevent deaths and injuries on our roadways. Yet Montana is one of just 15 states that doesn’t allow motorists to be pulled over for not wearing
