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Articles with the Tag: St. Luke Community Healthcare

Healthcare providers react to Affordable Care Act Healthcare providers react to Affordable Care Act

LAKE COUNTY – Mission Valley healthcare providers say they have seen mixed results to their bottom lines and overall method of service delivery after the mandatory implementation of the federal Affordable Care Act went into place in 2014. The major overhaul of the national healthcare system implemen...

Cartwright baby is first in region for 2015 Cartwright baby is first in region for 2015

RONAN — Baby Daniel James Cartwright, Jr. was the first baby born in 2015 for Lake County and much of western Montana. Baby Cartwright rang in the New Year, Jan. 1, at 12:54 p.m. at St. Luke Community Hospital in Ronan. The bouncing baby boy weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces, and joined three siblings, mot...

Area hospitals, emergency workers train for Ebola Area hospitals, emergency workers train for Ebola

Ebola. The very word sounds menacing, but then the disease is defined – an infectious and generally fatal disease marked by fever and severe internal bleeding, which is spread through contact with infected body fluids by a filovirus. Rest assured, local medical and emergency workers are preparing...

Man pleads not guilty in child shooting Man pleads not guilty in child shooting

POLSON – Galen Hawk, 26, pleaded not guilty to negligent homicide charges on Nov. 5 for the shooting death of a toddler that occurred two weeks earlier.  Hawk said nothing in Lake County District Court, as his attorney made the not guilty plea for him to negligent homicide charges and another 2...

Hawk charged with negligent homicide Hawk charged with  negligent homicide

 NINEPIPE — A St. Ignatius man was charged with negligent homicide Friday in Lake County justice court in the alleged accidental shooting death of 3-year-old Lonato Oliver Ian Moran-Allen.  According to Lake County Undersheriff Dan Yonkin a 911 call came it at approximately 8:20 p.m. on Oc...

Sheriff's authorities investigating death of toddler

    UPDATE Friday, Oct. 24: Based on facts and evidence gathered during the Lake County Sheriff’s Office investigation, the Lake County Attorney’s Office will be charging 26-year-old Galen Hawk with negligent homicide in the accidental shooting death of ...

St. Luke residency training program returns

News from St. Luke Community Hospital RONAN - St. Luke Community Healthcare will once again become a training venue for family practice residents starting Oct. 20. Five medical residents will be working at St. Luke during the next seven months as part of the Family Medicine Residency Program of Western Mo...

Fundraiser provides for healthcare needs Fundraiser provides for healthcare needs

RONAN – Officials for St. Luke Community Hospital said Friday that federal regulations are constricting the abilities of small community medical facilities to provide adequate care for rural residents, making it increasingly important for outside financial contributions like those that poured in at Fri...

Tribes are in ‘age of cooperation’ Tribes are in ‘age of cooperation’

POLSON — Rob McDonald, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal communications director, spoke on the State of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes at the Sept. 3 Polson Chamber of Commerce luncheon.  “Relations between the tribes and the larger community are the best they’ve ...

Women survive two separate rollover wrecks

LAKE COUNTY — Authorities say seatbelts likely saved the lives of four women involved in two separate rollover accidents that occurred Aug. 19 on Lake County Highways.  Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Brian Casey said two local underage females were traveling west on Round Butte Road outside of ...


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