On June 30, 2008, the Yellowstone City-County Health Department began doing business as RiverStone Health. Although it has taken thirty years to arrive, our journey to RiverStone Health began two years ago, based on the need to create a single identity for our health department.

Since our creation in 1974, we've been providing public health services to our community. Over the past thirty years, many significant milestones have marked our path:

• 1984 – Deering Clinic opens, offering personal health services
• 1998 – YCCHD becomes the only health services district in the state of Montana
• 1998 – Big Sky Hospice joins our service delivery team
• 2005 – Montana Family Medicine Residency Program is integrated into the organization, broadening our scope of services to include professional education

In recent years, we've continued to add services to meet the needs of our community, leaving little time to focus on our organizational identity. Several community surveys indicated the same thing: Yellowstone City-County Health Department was not well known and the programs and services we delivered were not associated with the organization. In a sense, we were the victims of our own success.

Introducing RiverStone Health.

Our new name reinforces our identity as a stable, strong, yet constantly evolving provider of vital services including public health, personal health and educational services.

We are actively engaged in community health initiatives, issues and concerns. We serve our communities by providing HELP – Health, Education, Leadership and Protection. We combine the strength of government with the power of vision in an entrepreneurial model that transforms how we think of public health.

We’ve changed in name only. Our commitment to provide the highest quality of services you have come to know and rely upon, delivered by the people you trust, remains unchanged.

RiverStone Health ... connecting you to a better life.