Healthcare System Overview

An In-Depth Look into the Healthcare System

St. Vincent Regional Hospital

St. Vincent Regional Hospital opened in 1898 as Billings' first hospital. Today it is one of the largest tertiary care hospitals in Montana and the region's Level I Trauma Center. The hospital is a faith-based, nonprofit member of Intermountain Health. It anchors a network of more than 30 clinics serving Montana and northern Wyoming.

For your practice, St. Vincent is where your deliveries, inpatient care, and gynecologic surgeries take place. A replacement hospital is planned to open in 2029.

Hospital Snapshot

Item	Detail
Facility Type	Short-term acute care hospital
Ownership	Voluntary nonprofit, faith-based
Founded	1898
Licensed Beds	286
Staffed Beds	226
ICU Beds	24
Trauma Level	Level I
Annual Deliveries	2,383 (2025)
Labor and Delivery Rooms	10
NICU	Level III
Robotic Surgery	3 da Vinci Xi systems
Annual Discharges	12,883
Annual ER Visits	About 30,400
Case Mix Index	2.25
Inpatient Market Share	54.9%
Accreditation	The Joint Commission
EMR	Epic
Location	1233 N 30th St, Billings, MT 59101

Women's and Newborn Services

St. Vincent receives obstetric transfers from across Montana. Maternal-fetal medicine specialists screen transfer calls from smaller hospitals and help stabilize patients before they arrive.

Level III NICU staffed by four neonatologists and five nurse practitioners
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Maternal-fetal medicine specialists from Intermountain in Salt Lake City, onsite weekly with 24/7 phone and telehealth coverage
Certified nurse midwifery program with nine CNMs
Simply Birth, a home-like birth option within the hospital
Cribs for Kids National Gold Certified Safe Sleep hospital, the only one in Billings

Clinical Programs and Designations

Level I Trauma Center
Certified Stroke Center
Accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI
Children's hospital within the hospital
Cancer center with medical and radiation oncology
Three da Vinci Xi robotic surgical systems
Network of more than 30 clinics

Quality

4-star CMS Hospital Compare overall rating
No Medicare readmission penalty (FY2026)
No hospital-acquired condition penalty (FY2026)

Regional Network

St. Vincent is the largest Intermountain hospital in Montana and the referral center for the system's other Montana hospitals.

Facility	Location	Profile
St. Vincent Regional Hospital	Billings	286-bed Level I Trauma Center
Holy Rosary Hospital	Miles City	25-bed critical access hospital
St. James Hospital	Butte	98-bed Level III Trauma Center

Intermountain Health

Intermountain Health is a nonprofit, integrated health system based in Salt Lake City, Utah. It operates hospitals, clinics, and a medical group across the Mountain West. As part of Intermountain, your patients have access to subspecialty care in Salt Lake City, including maternal-fetal medicine and fetal surgery.

System Snapshot

Item	Detail
Headquarters	Salt Lake City, Utah
Ownership	Nonprofit, integrated health system
Hospitals	33
Clinics	About 385
Employed Physicians and APPs	More than 5,000
Licensed Beds	4,122
Annual Discharges	221,367
Annual ER Visits	About 710,600
Net Patient Revenue	$11.4 billion
EMR	Epic

System Services

63 urgent care clinics
68 imaging centers
20 ambulatory surgery centers
Home health and hospice services
Select Health, the system's health plan

Recognition

American Medical Association Joy in Medicine recognition for physician well-being