10 Things You May Not Know About Blue Mountain Clinic
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Blue Mountain
Clinic does not just provide care to women. The clinic was formed in 1977 as
the first abortion provider in Montana. Since 1991, we've served men, women and
children of all ages in our primary care practice. We also provide mental
health therapy.
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We see about
8,500 client visits each year. These visits breakdown as follows:
Family
practice = 68 %
Gynecology,
Contraceptive and Sexual Health = 18 %
Mental Health
Counseling = 7 %
Abortion care
= 7%
Blue Mountain
Clinic is an independent, Missoula-based, non-profit health care provider. Our
fees for services, combined with private fundraising, help us serve the
Missoula community. We receive no federal funding to support our services so we
have no sliding scale for fees. But we do offer a Fair Care Discount (20%
deduction for office visit charges) for clients without insurance who pay for
their care in full at the time of service.
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Blue Mountain
Clinic is open to new Medicaid and Medicare clients.
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We strive to
provide clients with options and information to assist them in making informed
decisions about the care they receive.
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Blue Mountain
Clinic was voted Best Health Clinic for 2008 and 2009 by the
readers of
the Missoula Independent.
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Dr. Eric
Ravitz was voted Best Doctor for 2008 and 2009 in the same reader poll.
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Blue Mountain
Clinic works closely with the UM School of Social Work, the UM College of
Nursing and the College of Technology allied health programs to provide
internships opportunities for students in our community.
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Blue Mountain
Clinic's works directly to affect policy on a state and national level.
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In 2008, Blue
Mountain Clinic launched Off the Rack, our annual fashion event. It promotes
healthy sexuality that goes beyond gender and stigma and it's quickly becoming
Missoula's hottest fundraiser.
Choices in health care
At Blue Mountain Clinic our qualified and patient-centered clinicians and staff members work to provide general medical care at a reasonable cost. We offer a variety of choices in health care, and strongly encourage patients to take a pro-active approach to their care. We very much respect our patients decisions, and view health care as a team effort between our clinicians and our patients. We are a non-profit, 501 (c) 3 healthcare organization, making our mission of providing health care for people not profit a guiding force for our services.
From the early days of Blue Mountain Women's Clinic to today's Blue Mountain Clinic our services have evolved to meet the changing needs of our clients. In the beginning, we provided abortion and women's health care. As the clinic grew we realized the women seeking our care often had partners and children that also needed access to reasonably-priced care. Over the years, we expanded our services to include a full spectrum of care. Today we treat women, men and children of all ages. Our clinicians see clients for a range of medical needs from treatment for the flu, well-child exams, routine vaccinations and care for ongoing illnesses to annual exams, depression and family planning issues.
We have a robust family practice with 90 percent of the clients we see coming to us for primary care needs. As our family practice has grown we've embraced a holistic approach to health care and include in our services mental health counseling, acupuncture and Chinese medicine as well.
At Blue Mountain Clinic, we have a fully-licensed lab on site where our clinicians and technicians are able to perform routine tests, and coordinate screening and testing with other labs for additional services.
Our services are available to people in need of disability accommodations.
Our dedicated staff of clinicians and nurses who looks forward to meeting your health care needs.
Blue Mountain Clinic voted Best Clinic and Dr. Ravitz voted Best Doctor for 2009.