# Billings Clinic

Billings Clinic is a regional health care center based in Billings, Montana. It provides primary and specialty care at Billings Clinic downtown (its main campus), Billings Clinic Heights, Billings Clinic West, and numerous affiliate locations in Big Timber, Bozeman, Colstrip, Columbus, Glendive, Harlowton, Lewistown, Livingston, Miles City, Red Lodge, Roundup, and Scobey, Montana, as well as Cody, Lovell, and Sheridan, Wyoming. Billings Clinic is the largest healthcare system in Montana & Wyoming.
Located in downtown Billings, Billings Clinic Hospital is a 336-bed hospital which includes a 20-suite family birth center with a Level III NICU, an Inpatient Cancer Care Unit, a Surgery Center, and a Level I Emergency & Trauma Center. Billings Clinic is the first Level I Trauma Center in Montana & Wyoming.
Billings Clinic has nearly 600 physicians and advanced practitioners offering more than 80 specialties.

## History & Recognition

The Billings Clinic was founded by Dr. Arthur J. Movius, who started his Billings medical practice in 1911. In 1915, after practicing on his own, Movius had Dr. J.H. Bridenbaugh join him as an assistant. Bridenbaugh operated and managed obstetrics and began working with a ground-breaking device, the x-ray machine. During World War I, Bridenbaugh joined the military, where he received training in radiology. After returning from the war, Bridenbaugh incorporated diagnostic x-rays and radiation therapy into his practice.
By 1930, five other physicians joined Movius and Bridenbaugh, forming the Movius-Bridenbaugh Clinic, which specialized in obstetrics, fractures, and trauma. In 1939, the clinic conceived a plan to recruit new physicians as partners of the hospital, changing the name to The Billings Clinic. Construction began on a new clinic across the street from Billings Deaconess Hospital in 1950.
In 2013, The Billings Clinic joined the Mayo Clinic Care Network, a collaboration between Mayo Clinic and other health organizations to allow those organizations to access Mayo's clinical expertise. In 2009, the Billings Clinic opened a cancer center, at a cost of $31.9-million. The same year, an outpatient surgery center opened.
In 2021, Billings Clinic was granted their fourth designation as a Magnet Organization. Less than 1% of all hospitals worldwide have earned this designation four times in a row.
In 2023, Billings Clinic was named the Best Hospital in Montana and received its second consecutive 5-star rating from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). The hospital was also awarded an "A" safety grade from Leapfrog Group.
Also in 2023, Billings Clinic became the first Level I Trauma Center in Montana & Wyoming and was designated the first ever Comprehensive Trauma Center in Montana. The hospital is the only Level I Trauma Center for nearly 550 miles.
Billings Clinic is a DNV-certified Comprehensive Stroke Center, reflecting the highest level of treatment for stroke, and is the region's first and only accredited Chest Pain Center.

## Residency Programs & Education

Billings Clinic is an academic medical center, offering residency programs for nurses, pharmacists & physicians.
In 2014, Billings Clinic established Montana's first internal medicine residency. The program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
Beginning July 2021, Billings Clinic began educating psychiatry residents from the University of Washington. The cooperative program has resident physicians begin their first two years of residency in Seattle with the University of Washington and the latter two years of their residency training with the Billings Clinic.
Billings Clinic has long offered a Nurse Residency, a year-long program to support and train new graduate RN's. Billings Clinic also offers two PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Programs.
Billings Clinic operates the largest Community Training Center in Montana, offering medical education for both healthcare employees & members of the public in the surrounding region. Billings Clinic also operates a Simulation & Experiential Learning Lab, using high-fidelity mannequins and medical equipment to simulate real-world medical scenarios.