Billings Clinic

Billings Clinic is a health care center based in Billings, Montana. It provides primary and specialty care at Billings Clinic downtown (its main campus), Billings Clinic Heights, and Billings Clinic West, and numerous affiliate locations in Big Timber, Bozeman, Colstrip, Columbus, Glendive, Harlowton, Lewistown, Livingston, Miles City, Red Lodge, Roundup, and Scobey, Montana, as well as Cody, Lovell, and Sheridan, Wyoming.[1]

Billings Clinic
TypeNon-profit organization
IndustryHealthcare
Headquarters
Billings, MT
,
U.S.
Area served
North America
Websitehttp://www.billingsclinic.com/

Billings Clinic Hospital is a 304-bed hospital which includes a 20-suite family birth center, a 15-bed transitional care unit, and a Level II trauma center. In 2013 AARP The Magazine named the Billings Clinic one of the safest hospitals in America.[2]

History

The Billings Clinic was founded by Dr. Arthur J. Movius, who started his Billings medical practice in 1911. In 1915, after practicing on his own, Movius had Dr. J.H. Bridenbaugh join him as an assistant. Bridenbaugh operated and managed obstetrics and began working with a ground-breaking device, the x-ray machine. During World War I, Bridenbaugh joined the military, where he received training in radiology. After returning from the war, Bridenbaugh incorporated diagnostic x-rays and radiation therapy into his practice.

In 2013, The Billings Clinic joined the Mayo Clinic Care Network, a collaboration between Mayo Clinic and other health organizations to allow those organizations to accces Mayo's clinical expertise.[3]

By 1930, five other physicians joined Movius and Bridenbaugh, forming the Movius-Bridenbaugh Clinic, which specialized in obstetrics, fractures, and trauma. In 1939, the clinic conceived a plan to recruit new physicians as partners of the hospital, changing the name to The Billings Clinic. Construction began on a new clinic across the street from Billings Deaconess Hospital in 1950.

Billings Clinic Cancer Center

In September 2007, Billings Clinic broke ground on its new 50,000-square-foot (4,600 m2) cancer center, south of Billings Clinic. The new facility as well as the new main entrance to Billings Clinic opened August 2009.[4][5]

Billings Clinic Surgery Center

In December 2007, Billings Clinic began construction on their 29,000-square-foot (2,700 m2) Surgery Center, located at the corner of 10th Avenue North and North 30th Street. The Billings Clinic Surgery Center opened in February 2009. The Surgery Center focuses on outpatient surgical procedures.[6]

See also

Notes
  1. "Affiliate Hospitals and Clinics". www.billingsclinic.com. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
  2. Howard 2013, pp. 46–50.
  3. "Billings Clinic Joins Mayo Clinic Care Network". www.billingsclinic.com. Billings Clinic. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  4. Billings Clinic Cancer Center Receives Perfect Score by the Commission on Cancer , Billings Gazette, 1-17-08
  5. National Cancer Institute 2013.
  6. Billings Clinic Performs First Mini-Maze Surgery in Region Minimally Invasive Procedure Treats Atrial Fibrillation, Topix

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