An update from HLRC Director Duane Murray

It’s seems over the past few years any news about the Hi-Line Retirement Center has been bad news.

Just a few months ago the facility announced operating as a nursing home was no longer financially feasible. The facility had notified the Department of Health and Human Services that they would close the nursing home in 90 days and reopen as an assisted living facility.

Residents began moving out to Sweet Home in Chinook, and Northern Montana Care Center in Havre. Unfortunately an assisted living facility does not meet the needs of the community, and once the nursing home is gone it wou...