Services Offered

• Care for the community by providing a wide range of abilities.

Physical Therapy

• Acute in patient orthopedic care
• Acute outpatient orthopedic
• Burn and specialized wound care

Risk Management

• Tort claims
• Provider performance
• Peer review
• Patient and visitor complaints

Diabetes Program

• Act as patient advocate
• Coordinate diabetes team
• Provide diabetes education and awareness
• Provide opportunities to enhance individuals’ weight control efforts
• Diabetes and blood pressure screening for the community
• Coordinate home blood glucose monitoring program
• Collaborate with Southern Piegan Diabetes Program

Nursing Department

• Administrative services for nursing department.
• Supervise nursing unit: inpatient, obstetrics, surgery, emergency, ambulatory care, respiratory, and discharge planning.

Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) Clinic

• Ear-nose-throat evaluations
• Newborn hearing screening
• Hearing evaluations
• Hearing aid evaluations and fittings

Contract Health Services

• Assists patients with setting up medical appointments with physicians and other hospitals.
• Arranges and provides transportation when medical care is outside the hospital.

Utilization Review and Compliance

• Prevention, recognition, and correction of actual and potential Medicare/Medicaid “Fraud-Abuse-Waste”
• Compliance with all government regulations, policies and procedures
• Assures facility resources are used appropriately and efficiently

Medical Records

• Support all health information that is generated in the facility
• Distribute health information
• Provide medical transcription of health information
• Maintain medical records
• Maintain the integrity, availability and security of health information

Community Health Nursing

• Immunizations
• Communicable disease prevention
• Communicable disease education
• Pregnancy testing
• Counseling on birth control
• Pregnancy alternatives
• Home visits
• Pregnancy education and classes for breathing and relaxation for women
• Well child clinic
• Specialty clinics
• Business Office
• Patient registration
• Admissions
• Third party billing

Office of Environmental Health

• Sanitation provides sanitation facilities for Indian Homes under PL86-121
• Environmental Health Services covers general environmental health, community injury prevention and institutional environmental health

Behavioral Health and Social Services

• Clinical Services to individuals, groups, and families
• Psychosocial evaluation
• Psychological evaluations
• Crisis intervention
• Stress management
• Services address problems of child/adult abuse or neglect, domestic violence or abuse, sexual assault victims, referral to appropriate agency services
• Patient and family education
• Case consultation
• Alcohol after care
• Employee assistance program
• Group facilitation and counseling
• Case identification
• Emergency, outpatient, and inpatient services
• Consultation/liaison service
• Forensic and auxiliary services
• The criteria for use of behavioral or social services includes: persons presenting with problems of an emotional, psychiatric, psychological, or behavioral including marital, parent-child, or grief/loss issues. Patients can either be self-referred or referred by another agency.

Behavior Health is open Monday thru Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., emergency on-call services from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday thru Friday and 8:00 a.m. until noon on Saturday and Sunday.

Housing
Housing is located on the hospital compound but availability fluctuates depending on the staffing needs and the rotation of the medical students and residents. Government housing is assigned on an individual basis by the Administrative Officer, Blackfeet Community Hospital. There are single and two bedroom plexed-units, and two and three bedroom homes which are situated around the hospital area. All are within walking distance of the hospital. Civil service personnel are responsible for rent and utility costs in government housing. Commission Corps personnel receive housing allowances that cover the cost of rent and utilities in government housing.

Wood stoves can be installed in government homes providing the occupants request permission from the Chief Executive Officer. Installation and care of these stoves must adhere to regulations. The cost of purchase and installation is the responsibility of the occupant.

Staff also can elect to live in surrounding communities in East Glacier which is 15 miles west of Browning or in Cut Bank, Montana, which is 38 miles east of Browning. Local realtors in those communities can be contacted regarding rentals or purchase of homes. The largest town on the reservation is Browning; one half hour away is Cut Bank, where one can find additional services and shopping.