Recognition

Each year, U.S. News & World Report ranks hospitals quality in specialties and procedures as well as across all areas of care. An overall rating of "high performing" indicates a hospital was significantly better than the national average in a given procedure or condition.

We are proud to have achieved the following:

• Northwestern Montana Best Regional Hospital (2025-26)

• High Performing Hospital in Pulmonology & Lung Surgery (2025-26)

• High Performing Hospital in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair (2025-26)

• High Performing Hospital in Spinal Fusion (2025-26)

• High Performing Hospital in Aortic Valve Surgery (2025-26)

• High Performing Hospital in Heart Bypass Surgery (2025-26)

• High Performing Hospital in Heart Attack (2025-26)

• High Performing Hospital in Hip Replacement (2025-26)

• High Performing Hospital in Hip Fracture (2025-26)

• High Performing Hospital in Knee Replacement (2025-26)

• High Performing Hospital in Pneumonia (2025-26)

• High Performing Hospital in Prostate Cancer Surgery (2025-26)

• High Performing Hospital in Stroke (2025-26)

• High Performing Hospital in TAVR (2025-26)

• High Performing Hospital in Heart Arrhythmia (2025-26)

• High Performing Hospital in Pacemaker Implantation (2025-26)

American Heart Association's (AHA) Get With The Guidelines^® recognizes a facility's commitment to following up-to-date, research-based guidelines for the treatment of heart disease and stroke.

• Get with the Guidelines - Coronary Artery Disease STEMI Receiving Center - Gold Achievement Award (2025)

  • Target: Type 2 Diabetes℠ Honor Roll (2025)

• Get with the Guidelines - Coronary Artery Disease STEMI Receiving Center - Bronze (2025)

• Get with the Guidelines - Resuscitation Achievement Award (2025)

  • Target: CPR (2025)

• Get With the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award (2025)

  • Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite (2025)
  • Target: Type 2 Diabetes℠ Honor Roll (2025)

Practice Greenhealth is the health care sector’s go-to source for information, tools, data, resources, and expert technical support on sustainability initiatives.

• Environmental Excellence Award

• Greenhealth Emerald Award

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating (Overall Star Rating) summarizes a variety of measures across five areas of quality into a single star rating (between 1 and 5 stars) for each hospital. The five measure groups include mortality, safety of care, readmission, patient experience, and timely and effective care.

• Five-Star Quality Rating