Billings Clinic

VIDEO: An open letter from Billings emergency room staff urges you to stay home.

As it grows, the program will have 12 residents, three in each year of study in Seattle and Billings.

An event to help veterans with post traumatic stress is coming up later this month in Billings. The University of Montana Neuro Injury Center event will take place at the Billings Clinic on March 23rd and will feature neuro doctors, university researchers, and veterans- including the Vice President of The Northern Cheyenne Tribe, who is also a Vietnam Veteran.

Billings Clinic, Montana’s largest healthcare organization, has announced plans to build a 97,000 square foot healthcare facility in Bozeman and additional upgrades in Billings. Described by officials as a “destination ambulatory center,” the new facility in Bozeman will bring new caregivers, providers and specialists to the community...

Former Billings Clinic nurse Donald Mills– fired last year for diverting painkillers intended for patients for his personal use– has indicated he will plead guilty in U.S. District Court in Billings. Mills is charged with tampering with consumer products and acquiring Fentanyl by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery and deception...

Billings Clinic was recently accredited by the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy– or FACT– for its stem cell treatment. With the FACT accreditation, those treatments will be more accessible.  The accreditation also will make it easier for insurance companies to approve the procedure and will allow Billings Clinic to conduct trials on their stem cell treatment...

A Billings Clinic nurse was fired after he was caught stealing narcotics intended for patients.  KTVQ.com reports that the hospital disclosed the drug diversion late Tuesday afternoon, after contacting 341 patients who may have been affected...

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana awarded a fifty thousand dollar grant for a new pilot project in Billings.

An investment of more than three years and nearly $21 million spent to expand, renovate and update Billings Clinic’s suite of operating rooms is nearly finished, according to a report in the Gazette.  The project has increased the number of operating rooms from 10 to 13 while adding a new high-tech hybrid operating room that allows for complex treatments not available at the hospital before and ne

An experimental depression therapy is showing promise at Billings Clinic.  Dr. Mariela Herrera, a psychiatrist at the clinic, describes the use of sleep and light as part of the triple chronotherapy being tested at the clinic.   It involves three distinct parts, beginning with 36 hours of sleep deprivation for the patient.  T...