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Health Care Services

Missoula is a major medical hub for Western Montana and Central Idaho. Medical services include perinatology (a medical specialty focusing on high-risk obstetric cases), obstetric services, newborn services, a newborn intensive care unit, neonatology, pediatric acute and intensive care, pediatric rehabilitation, and pediatric surgery, including pediatric anesthesiology, general surgery, neurosurgery, and cardiothoracic, orthopaedic and plastic surgery. Services also include pediatric transport and trauma services. Pediatric specialties abound, including audiology, cardiology, dentistry, endocrinology, general pediatrics, clinical biochemical genetics, medical genetics, pulmonology/allergy, chemical and biochemical genetics, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, rheumatology and urology. A pediatric specialty clinic provides services in the areas of cleft/craniofacial, cystic fibrosis, endocrinology, medical genetics, muscular dystrophy, spina bifida, metabolic services, pulmonology, spasticity/tone management and rheumatology, physical medicine and rehabilitation. Missoula is also home to regionally renowned programs in rehabilitation and physical medicine, treating a range of conditions, from the most complex – spinal cord injury, stroke and traumatic brain injury – to the more common – arthritis and chronic pain. Programs focus on brain-injured patients and their families, placing patients in meaningful employment in an incredible relationship with the Missoula business community, and a residential apartment program for independent living.

Medical services also include acute care in hospital settings, intensive care, interventional cardiology, imaging, including 64-slice Computed Tomography (CT), sleep medicine, home care, durable medical equipment services, pain management, emergency services, helicopter transport, trauma care, urgent care, endoscopy, respiratory services, laboratory services, outpatient surgery, occupational medicine, diabetes management, case management and pastoral care. Medical staff provide expertise in allergy management, anesthesiology, cardiology, cardiac surgery, electrophysiology, dentistry, dermatology, emergency medicine, endocrinology, family practice, gastroenterology, hematology, oncology, hospitalist services, infectious disease, internal medicine, neonatology, nephrology, neurology, neurosurgery, obstetrics, gynecology, perinatology, occupational medicine, ophthalmology, oral surgery, orthopaedic surgery, otolaryngology, pathology, pediatrics, pediatric critical care, pediatric dentistry, pediatric surgery, pediatric clinical biochemical genetics, pediatric endocrinology, pediatric medical genetics, pediatric pulmonology, pediatric rehabilitation, physical medicine and rehabilitation, plastic surgery, podiatry, psychiatry, psychology, pulmonology, radiology, radiation oncology, rheumatology, general surgery, vascular surgery, urgent care and urology.

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