Bozeman Health history

Doctor J.F. Blair and his wife Elizabeth P. Blair, executed a warranty deed conveying the property known as the Bozeman Sanitarium to the Trustees of the Bozeman Deaconess Hospital on February 1, 1912.

Also during her tenure, by 1920, additional hospital facilities were needed, and in spite of pressing financial problems at the time, a majority of the 15,864 residents of Gallatin County and the Methodist Church supported building a new hospital.

Rapid Growth and InnovationIn 1944, a west wing was added to the hospital to serve as the nurses' dormitory.

A few years later, the addition was converted to patient services, and the capacity of the hospital was increased to 104 beds (patients shared rooms and had longer hospital stays than is the norm today). In 1955, a full-time radiologist was hired and a modern x-ray department opened.

In 1956, the governing board and management at Bozeman Deaconess recognized that growth would come to the Bozeman area, and purchased 500 acres in the Hillcrest area on Highland Blvd.

In 1957, the downtown hospital opened a newly equipped physical therapy department; two years later, a modern laboratory was established.

In 1971, a $1.7 million addition was completed on the hospital, which was still located on the corner of Tracy and Lamme.

The hospital purchased a radioactive isotope scanner in 1977.

The 86-bed Bozeman Deaconess Hospital opened in 1986 with 60 physicians.

Highland Park 3 opened in 1998 to house office space and the Cancer Center and Outpatient Services.

Bozeman Deaconess Health Group (now Bozeman Health Medical Group) began in 2005 as a partnership to support continued access to essential and expanded services in the community.

Also in 2006, the Wound Clinic opened and the following year a hyperbaric chamber was added.

In 2015, with Bozeman Deaconess Health Services adding more care sites in Southwest Montana, Bozeman Health was formed as the parent company to Bozeman Deaconess Hospital.

BOZEMAN, MT [September 28, 2020]—Bozeman Health has announced plans to continue expansion of locally available pediatric specialty medicine and behavioral health services, made possible by a charitable gift to Bozeman Health Foundation of $4 million from local residents Tim and Carmen Sheehy.