One Nation, Under God
One Nation, Under God
Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital's Dr. Anne Millard and Saco's Justinn Lahaye, a Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho Medical Education student perform a task as part of Lahaye's training in the TRUST program.
When Dale Marshall, a Saco-area rancher, suffered a heart attack, the hour-and-fifteen-minute drive over 15 graveled miles plus 50 paved miles of U.S. Highway could have been deadly and not just because of winter conditions. For more than half of Montana residents, medical care is distant.
The Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service's 2016 figures show 674,907, or 65 percent, of Montana's 1,042,520 residents live in rural settings. University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine's 2009 study found that only eight percent of Montanans live within an hour of a major higher-volume...
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