Medical

Services Offered at Our Healthcare Center

Your primary care provider leads your care team, which may include providers, nurses, medical assistants, pharmacy, dental professionals, health educators, behavioral health professionals and other support staff. Our teams act as “coaches” who help you get healthy, stay healthy, and get the care and services that are right for you. You, of course, are at the center of your care team. Northwest Community Health Center in Libby, MT, can be reached at 406-283-6900.

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Primary Care – Our provider care teams can help you and your family with your medical needs including preventive care, chronic disease management, and acute care on the same day.

Acute care – Would be for conditions that require prompt attention but do not pose an immediate, serious threat to your health or life. Our medical providers provide acute care for most ailments, such as lacerations, wounds, sprains, fevers, coughs and colds, ear infections, urinary tract infections, vomiting, or diarrhea.

Chronic disease management – conditions that require long term management and monitoring by a health care professional. Chronic conditions such as asthma, COPD, diabetes, and hypertension are among the many disease processes managed by our medical providers.

DOT – Certified staff are on site to provide occupational health services such as DOT physicals

Laboratory Services – As a CLIA waived laboratory we perform and minor screening testing on site and have a contract with Labcorp to provide a broad range of testing and imaging as necessary.

Family Planning Services – Montana’s Family Planning Program aims to improve women’s and men’s sexual and reproductive health and reduce the rate of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. Its mission is to provide affordable, confidential, quality reproductive health services that respect, empower, and educate individuals, families, and communities. Family planning clinics provide confidential, comprehensive reproductive health services, education, and outreach in communities around the state.

Family planning clinics provide comprehensive reproductive health services to both women and men, regardless of ability to pay. Clinics offer a sliding fee scale for individuals with low incomes and those without insurance. You can also use Medicaid or other insurance to cover family planning services – just remember to bring your card to your appointment.

Northwest Community Health Center provides services to all persons without regard to race, religion, age, gender, physical or financial limitation.

Opioid Treatment Options

Methadone and Buprenorphine DO NOT substitute one addiction for another

When someone is treated for an opioid addiction, the dosage of medication used does not get them high–it helps reduce opioid cravings and withdrawal. These medications restore balance to the brain affected by addiction, allowing the patient’s brain to heal while working toward recovery.

DPHHS estimates that approximately 90,000 Montanans have a substance use disorder, including addiction to prescription opioid pain medications like oxycodone and illicit opioids like heroin and fentanyl related substances.

Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD), formerly known as Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) is the use of FDA approved Buprenorphine and Methadone in combination with therapy to provide an individually tailored “whole-patient” approach to the treatment of opioid use disorders.

The goal of MOUD is long-term recovery; this treatment approach has also been shown to:

Prevent opioid-related overdose deaths
Relieve opioids cravings and withdrawal “dope sick”
Block euphoric “high” effects of opioids
Improve patient survival
Increase participation in treatment
Increase the ability to live a self-directed life
Increase patient’s ability to gain and maintain employment
Improves outcomes among women who have substance use disorders and are pregnant and outcomes for their babies
Decrease opioid use
Decrease involvement with the criminal justice system
Lower a person’s risk of contracting HIV or hepatitis C by reducing the potential for relapse