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Patricia Denny and her husband, Jeff, had hoped to one day get an RV and travel the country. Instead, Jeff has been forced into retirement at age 54 by a lung disease caused by the asbestos that’s polluted the small town of Libby, Montana, for decades.
Jeff Denny’s lungs are damaged from the asbestos he breathed while participating in an Environmental Protection Agency-run cleanup of the asbestos contamination caused by the vermiculite mine that closed 30 years ago in this community in the Cabinet Mountains. Patricia Denny is afraid she will get asbestos-related disease as well, given how many residents of the town have become sick. Barbed fibers, a byproduct of vermiculite, attach to the lungs when breathed in.
In poisoned Montana town, Warren Buffett-owned railroad accuses clinic of Medicare fraud
Patricia Denny and her husband, Jeff, had hoped to one day get an RV and travel the country. Instead, Jeff has been forced into retirement at age 54 by a lung disease caused by the asbestos that s polluted the small town of Libby, Montana, for decades.
Jeff Denny s lungs are damaged from the asbestos he breathed while participating in an Environmental Protection Agency-run cleanup of the asbestos contamination caused by the vermiculite mine that closed 30 years ago in this community in the Cabinet Mountains. Patricia Denny is afraid she will get asbestos-related disease as well, given how many residents of the town have become sick. Barbed fibers, a byproduct of vermiculite, attach to the lungs when breathed in.
Man, Flathead rescuers reflect on near-death experience
Three healthcare providers jumped in to save the life of a man who suffered sudden cardiac arrest at a recent ski mountaineering event at Whitefish Mountain Resort.
By: Sean Wells
and last updated 2021-02-11 13:51:14-05
KALISPELL â Three healthcare providers jumped in to save the life of a man who suffered sudden cardiac arrest at a recent ski mountaineering event at Whitefish Mountain Resort.
MTN News talked with the man who nearly lost his life and the healthcare providers who fought to save it.
One week after suffering sudden cardiac arrest 31-year-old Erik Sanders walked out of Kalispell Regional Healthcare.
Under current law, employers must ask potential employees if they can do the job. Senate Bill 118, sponsored by Sen. Terry Gauthier, R-Helena, would instead put the onus on employees to report their abilities to their employer.
An employee could also lose their workers compensation benefits if they misrepresent their needs.
Supporters like Brad Roy, representing Kalispell Regional Healthcare, say the bill would help businesses prevent fraud and better accommodate their employees.
“With disclosure of this information, an employer can better understand an employee’s limitations and then make the necessary accommodations,” Roy said.
The Senate Committee on Business, Labor, and Economic Affairs heard testimony from nine supporters and two opponents to the bill.
Given the recent decline in COVID-19 hospitalizations, Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital has paused plans to build 20 temporary beds.
The Montana Department of Military Affairs and Disaster and Emergency Services and Gov. Steve Bullockâs COVID-19 task force decided this week to place the installation of the critical and acute care beds on hold.
The decision will be reevaluated weekly. If hospitalizations climb, the hospital could construct the beds on the vacant third floor of the new patient care tower, which was built to accommodate future expansion.
âOur Bozeman Health surge plan continues to be reviewed on a regular basis ⦠and weâre confident in our ability and our bed capacity to continue providing expert, quality care to every patient and to our community,â said spokesperson Lauren Brendel.