Which Montana Hospitals Make the Grade: Spring 2024 Rankings

The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit organization that provides safety grades for hospitals, has come out with its latest rankings of hospitals, including those in Montana.

As with rankings in the past, several metrics are significant to the quality of care at hospitals. Specifically, the safety grades look at:

Infections
Problems with Surgery
Safety Problems
Practices to Prevent Errors
Doctors, Nurses & Hospital Staff

The latest data for Spring, 2024 is included below. Many rankings stayed the same but a hospital that previously ranked at "A" is now ranked at "B" and a hospital that previously ranked at "B" is now ranked at "C."

How Safe are Montana Hospitals?

Hospitals in Montana that earned a grade of 'A' and their past grades:

Billings Clinic
- Fall 2023: A
- Spring 2023: A
- Fall 2022: A
- Spring 2022: B
- Spring 2022

Intermountain Health St. Vincent Regional Hospital
- Fall 2023: A
- Spring 2023: A
- Fall 2022: A
- Spring 2022: A
- Fall 2021: A
- Spring 2021: 1

Providence St. Patrick Hospital
- Fall 2023: A
- Spring 2023: B
- Fall 2022: A
- Spring 2022: A
- Fall 2021: A
- Spring 2021: A

Hospitals in Montana that earned a grade of 'B' and their past grades:

Bozeman Health Deaconess Regional Medical Center
- Fall 2023: B
- Spring 2023: C
- Fall 2022: C
- Spring 2022: C
- Fall 2021: C
- Spring 2021: C

RCHP Billings-Missoula LLC DBA Community Medical Center
- Fall 2023: A
- Spring 2023
- Fall 2022: B
- Spring 2022: C
- Fall 2021: D
- Spring 2021: B

According to the scoring, hospitals in Montana that earned a grade of 'C' and their past grades:

Benefis Hospital - East Campus
- Fall 2023: C
- Spring 2023: C
- Fall 2022: C
- Spring 2022: C
- Fall 2021: C
- Spring 2021: C

Intermountain Health St. James Hospital
- Fall 2023: B
- Spring 2023: C
- Fall 2022: C
- Spring 2022: B
- Fall 2021: B
- Spring 2021: B

Logan Health Medical Center
- Fall 2023: C
- Spring 2023: C
- Fall 2022: C
- Spring 2022: C
- Fall 2021: C
- Spring 2021: D

St Peter's Health Regional Medical Center
- Fall 2023: C
- Spring 2023: C
- Fall 2022: C
- Spring 2022: C
- Fall 2021: B
- Spring 2021: C

Hospital safety rankings from The Leapfrog group come out in the spring and fall with the next set of ratings coming in the fall of 2024. For more information about the health of Montanans, here's a look at alcohol consumption over time.

10 Years of Data: Montana's Alcohol Consumption

Montanans are known for drinking alcohol but what does the data say? These results come from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System questionnaire and include 10 years of responses.

SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Population Health. BRFSS Prevalence & Trends Data [online]. 2015.

Gallery Credit: Ashley

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Montana may not be known for its diversity but it is interesting to see the diversity within the state. WalletHub did a 2024 study of diversity in U.S. cities and we've pulled out the Montana cities below. Not all variables from the study are included, but you can get an idea of how diverse each city is.

Gallery Credit: Ashley

The Most Amusing Comments About the Sale of the Old Post Hospital on Instagram

The Old Post Hospital is for sale in Missoula for $10 and was featured on the Cheap Old Houses Instagram Account. These are some amusing comments about the need to move the building.

Gallery Credit: Ashley

Source: Which Montana Hospitals Make the Grade: Spring 2024 Rankings