The Great Falls Clinic and Hospital is expanding into the former Centene Corporation campus. The expansion is in partnership with Catalyst Realty, which supports health care facility expansions nationwide and purchased the property at 2000 26th St. S. over the summer, according to the Clinic. Several non-clinical departments will vacate the main campus at 1400 29th St. S. and move
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The Air Force is continuing its missile community cancer study and discussed the current process during a Dec. 1 media call that The Electric was invited to join. Col. Greg Coleman, command surgeon for Air Force Global Strike Command, said that the study has two focuses, the epidemiology study and an environmental assessment. The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine
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A veterinary medicine school could be coming to Great Falls. The Great Falls Economic Development Alliance developed a strategy to build on the medical and educational assets in the community and one of the recommendations to look at attracting a veterinary medicine school. Last summer, GFDA commissioned a feasibility study on brining such a school to Great Falls. The consultant
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Montana State University is breaking ground on its new instructional building for the Mark and Robyn Jones College of Nursing’s Great Falls campus on Nov. 28. The new building will be near the recently opened Touro University medical school near Benefis Health System. Benefis donated two acres for the new building and construction costs will be covered by a portion
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Several construction liens have been filed against Alluvion for the Rocky Mountain Building downtown. In October, Sletten Construction filed a construction lien for $3,434,462.97 for their work for the property listed as 3 6th St. N. According to the lien filed in the Cascade County Clerk and Recorder’s Office, Sletten began providing services and materials under a construction contract on
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The Great Falls Hospital has completed the first two phases of its $58 million expansion. The first two phases of construction included the expansion of the west wing, which was completed in July 2023 and the addition of the hospital tower, which opens to the public Oct. 31. The first phase included building the new hospital tower, which includes a
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Air Force Global Strike Command said on Oct. 23 that initial efforts to clean polychlorinated biphenyls from launch facilities at Malmstrom Air Force Base are ongoing but seeing success. The clean-up effort was ordered earlier this year by AFGSC commander Gen. Thomas Bussiere after PCBs were detected on surfaces in launch facilities at all three of the command’s missile wings during
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Many Rives Whole Health received a $ 4 million, four-year grant for certified community behavioral health clinic improvement and advancement of high-quality integrated services through the region. Many Rivers was previously funded in 2021- 2023 for a two-year $4 million grant to build and provide the CCBHC model in the region. This grant is to continue to improve and advance
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During their Oct. 17 meeting, City Commissioners will consider several amendments to the city’s emergency medical services code. Staff is recommending several changes to the code that hasn’t been substantially changed since it’s first adoption in 2008. Great Falls Fire Rescue staff discussed the proposed changes with commissioners during both of their September work sessions and the changes were accepted
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The Montana Department of Environmental Quality has received a report of a possible harmful algae bloom on the eastern shore of the Missouri River at Broadwater Bay in Great Falls, according to the city. The report stated there is “a thin layer of algae right along the shore’s edge spanning sporadically along a few hundred yards at least,” according to
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