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“The reliance on contracted clinical staff, commonly referred to as ‘travelers’, continues to impact our budget in a way that is not sustainable."

The campaign is the state’s latest effort to increase retention and cut spending on temporary contract workers.

“The reliance on contracted clinical staff, commonly referred to as ‘travelers’, continues to impact our budget in a way that is not sustainable."

The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services is launching new hiring incentives, retention bonuses and raises in an effort to recruit new health care workers, and to hold

The Gianforte administration is offering retention bonuses, incentives for new hires and hourly pay raises for a swath of health care employees at the Montana S

“People that have episodes end up encountering law enforcement, emergency rooms, and we really dont have services."

The interim administrator at the Montana State Hospital has been put on administrative leave, a new development in the yearslong struggle to stabilize the beleaguered adult psychiatric facility.

The staffing shakeup comes almost a year after Carter Anderson’s appointment.

Legislation to end the admission of dementia patients at the state hospital is scheduled for a Jan. 13 hearing.

The Montana state health department has expanded its contract with a private consulting group hired to oversee the struggling Montana State Hospital and other public health care facilities. The amended agreement with Alvarez & Marsal went into effect Oct. 1.