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Shodair Children's Hospital is a non-profit, 501 C-3 organization. The Montana Children's Foundation raises money which are used for funding equipment purchases and off-setting the cost of uncompensated care.

Shodair is also Montana's only Children's Miracle Network affiliated hospital.

Shodair Children's Hospital employs between 260 – 270 people, including full-time, part-time and flex staff. In Fiscal Year 2011, the Hospital's payroll was nearly $11,000,000.

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program Background 2011

Grasslands Unit (Acute Care)

Beds: 20
Admissions: 572
Patient days: 6,518
Average Length of Stay: 11.4 days

High Desert Unit (Children’s Residential)

Beds: 22
Admissions: 53
Patient days: 4,290
Average Length of Stay: 81 days

Yellowstone Unit (Middle School)
Glacier Unit (High School) Adolescent Residential

Beds: 46 beds on two units
Admissions: 159
Patient days: 12,457
Average Length of Stay: 76 days

Shodair is the only facility in Montana with both acute and residential beds in the same facility.

Staffing

• Five psychiatrists who specialize in the treatment of children and adolescents.
• Nine primary therapists.
• Two psychologists.
• One speech-language pathologist.
• Music, art and recreation therapy.
• RNs/LPNs.
• Special Education teachers.
• Mental health technicians.

Reimbursement

• 62% of acute patients are Medicaid.
• 60% of adolescent patients are Medicaid.
• 75% of children’s unit patients are Medicaid.
• In 2011, uncompensated care was $3.5 million.
• ShoCare is the hospital’s financial assistance program to help individuals and families pay for psychiatric and genetic services at Shodair. ShoCare works on a sliding scale based on household income of up to 200% of the federal poverty level.

99% of Shodair's psychiatric patients are from Montana. Depending on the unit, approximately 5 - 12% of its psychiatric patients are of Native American descent.

Montana Medical Genetics Program Background

Clinical Genetics

Staffing:

• Four Genetic Counselors
• Two Medical Geneticists

Patients in 2011: 901

Clinics: 120 days per year

• Helena 3-4 days per month
• Billings 2 days per month
• Great Falls and Missoula monthly
• Kalispell, Butte, Bozeman quarterly
• Miles City, Glendive, Sidney, Wolf Point, Browning annually

Telemedicine connection to over 60 healthcare facilities in Montana.

Laboratory

Staffing:

• PhD Geneticist
• Technologists
• Students

Maternal Serum screening-first trimester pregnancy screening.
Tests in 2011: 914

Cytogenetics

Staffing:

• Technologists
• Students

Tests include prenatal, infant and child, cancer
Tests in 2011: 1,182

DNA:

Staffing:

• Technologists

Reference laboratory serves national market. Tests in 2011: 562
Pharmacogenetic (drug metabolism) testing. Tests in 2011: 309

Newborn Screening Follow-up Program

Staffing:

• One Registered Nurse
• One Nutritionist
• One Biochemical Geneticist

This program was implemented as a result of 2007 Legislation expanding newborn screening in Montana. It provides comprehensive state-wide follow-up.

Funding:

• Funded in part with special revenue account money authorized by 2005 Montana Legislature.
• $1.00 from each health and disability insurance policy sold in Montana.

Program Strengths:

• Availability of both counselors and laboratory staff on-site provides comprehensive genetic services for both patients and physicians.
• Focused staff expertise in newborn genetic diseases, cancer genetics, fetal alcohol syndrome, and inherited disease.
• Pharmacogenetic testing for ability to metabolize prescription drugs.