Montana Vet Centers
Billings Vet Center
1234 Ave. C
Billings, MT 59102
Phone: (406) 657-6071
Fax: (406) 657-6603
Missoula Vet Center
500 N. Higgins Avenue
Missoula, MT 59802
Phone: (406) 721-4918
Fax: (406) 329-3006
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Where to find facilities:
VA Montana has primary care clinics in Anaconda, Billings, Bozeman, Miles City, Glendive, Glasgow, Great Falls, Missoula, Kalispell and Cut Bank, which opened Jan. 7 and a new facility will soon be opening in Havre.
These toll-free hotlines offer immediate help:
• VA National Suicide Prevention Hotline
800-273-TALK
• National Guard Military One Source
800-342-9647
• National VA Nurse Line (for health information)
866-369-8020. This number is answered 24/7.
To enroll in VA health care, call 406-447-7325 or toll-free 877-468-837 during week days to reach Fort Harrison in Helena. After hours, call 406-442-6410 and ask for the medical duty officer.
Montana Veteran's News
In an Official April 2006 Alert, the Veterans’ Administration Announced That a Medical Device Used in VA Facilities Across the County To Perform Prostate Biopsies May Not Have Been Properly Sterilized or Disinfected.
This means that if you had a prostate biopsy between 1992 and 2006, you may have been exposed to a potentially fatal disease such as HIV or Hepatitis. According to the Veterans’ Administration, the risk of contracting these dangerous viruses is “almost nothing.” However, the situation is serious and the Veterans’ Administration has acknowledged that some patients may have been infected with these deadly viruses.
If you had a prostate biopsy that involved the use of a B-K Medical Transrectal Ultrasound Transducer, and you have tested positive for HIVor hepatitis since having the biopsy, you may have a legal claim. For a free consultation, you may call the Missoula, Montana law firm of Milodragovich, Dale, Steinbrenner and Nygren at (406) 728-1455
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Randy Mosley, commanding general of the Montana National Guard, to retire in September
HELENA - Major Gen. Randy Mosley, commanding general of the Montana National Guard,
says he is retiring in September. Mosley made the announcement Saturday to fellow Guard members and staff at Fort Harrison.Mosley has been Montana’s adjutant general and the commanding general of the Joint Forces Headquarters for four years. He will retire with 38
years of military service.
Art in the Beartooths – Red Lodge, Montana It’s time once again for Art in the Beartooths, the summer fundraiser for the Carbon County Arts Guild/Depot Gallery in at Lion’s Park in Red Lodge. The event is Saturday, July 26, and features Mel Fillerup, of Cody, Wyoming. Fillerup’s oil painting, “Prairie Waterhole” will be read more
Veterans cemetery to be dedicated
MISSOULA - The western Montana state veterans' cemetery is to be dedicated in Missoula today.
A grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs paid for nearly all of the $4.1 million cost for excavating, landscaping and installing utilities, irrigation and roads.
Work began last fall.
Montana also has veterans cemeteries in Miles City and Helena. Charlie Crookshanks, chairman of the Western Montana State Veterans Cemetery Committee, said the initiative for the Missoula project was the distance that families of veterans had to drive to visit their loved ones' graves. Of the 109,000 veterans in Montana, Crookshanks said 36,000 live in western Montana.
Only the western half of the 24-acre site has been developed.
Crookshanks said project engineers predict the developed half of the cemetery won't fill up for 50 years.
