When the hospital employees began talking about the cost of the surgery, she could hardly comprehend it. The estimate ran between $150,000 and $200,000. Dutton was one of the first in Ravalli County to sign up for health insurance through the network created under the Affordable Care Act.
Read MoreThere were 41 participants in the 2017 Point in Time Count conducted by The Bitterroot Taskforce on Homelessness and Housing. The survey asked homeless people, sheltered and unsheltered, where they slept on the night of January 26 and some specifics about their situation.
Read MoreThe Ravalli County commissioners agreed Monday to write a support letter for the Sapphire Community Health grant application to Health Resources & Services for a community health center with a sliding scale of fees.
Read MoreSapphire Community Health Inc. and the Human Resource Council have traded buildings on the 300 block of N. Third Street.
Read MoreSapphire Community Health Center has moved across the street on North 3rd in Hamilton....This week, Sapphire Community Health was informed that another federal grant of over $40,000 was authorized by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Read MoreThe Bitterroot Valley's Sapphire Community Health Clinic has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the U.S....The Sapphire health center is at 303 North 3rd Street in Hamilton and has recently added mental health services.
Read MoreNational Health Center Week is a national campaign that runs August 7-13th with the goal of raising awareness about the mission and accomplishments of America’s health centers over the course of more than five decades.
Read MoreA nonprofit primary health care clinic in Hamilton, will open its doors no later than Labor Day. The Sapphire Community Health Center won't turn anyone away. Payment will be on a sliding fee scale.
Read MoreHamilton's newly re-opened Sapphire Community Health facility has already seen over 250 patients since it began operation in late...The "sliding-scale" community health organization was designated a federally funded community health center through the Human Resources Services Administration.
Read MoreSapphire Community Health held its official grand opening Friday. The Hamilton clinic closed several years ago for lack of funding. But a federal grant allowed staff to open its doors again.
Read MoreSapphire Community Health, a not-for-profit primary health care facility that turns no one away for lack of money and charges on a sliding scale fee based on the individual’s or family’s ability to pay, has re-opened for business after being closed in 2012 due to lack of funding.
Read MoreThe idea of bringing a sliding-scale medical clinic to the Bitterroot Valley has a long history. Its advocates submitted grant applications for 15 years before finally being on the receiving end of the $707,167 federal grant that made it possible.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced last week that Sapphire Community Health Center, a non-profit health care provider in Hamilton, will be the recipient of $704,167 in federal funding made available through the Affordable Care Act.
Read MoreHamilton's Sapphire Community Health Center will receive over $700,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The award was announced this week, as part of over a $100 million distribution to 164 health center sites in 33 states.
Read MoreA 15-year effort to bring a sliding-scale medical clinic to the Bitterroot Valley paid off Tuesday morning, with news that Sapphire Community Health Center was selected for a $707,167 federal grant.
Read MoreThe money, set aside under the Affordable Care Act, will help establish centers in 33 states and two U.S. territories, increasing access to primary healthcare services for nearly 650,000 people in communities that need them most.
Read MoreA 15-year effort to bring a sliding-scale medical clinic to the Bitterroot Valley paid off Tuesday morning, with news that Sapphire Community Health Center was selected for a $707,167 federal grant.
Read MoreSapphire Community Health in Hamilton hopes to open its doors to a Women’s Wellness Clinic, aimed primarily at low-income women but open to all, some time this spring.
Read MoreIn an effort to fill the health care gap in Ravalli County, Sapphire Community Health recently developed an outreach program to provide health services to underserved women in our community.
Read MoreThe Board of Directors of the Sapphire Community Health Center has made the tough decision to close the facilities doors on June 30, according to board member Carlotta Grandstaff. She said the action was dictated by the slash in funding at the federal level for such facilities.
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