Michael Cast is a print and visual journalist specializing in environmental storytelling and profiles. He has written for newspapers and magazines around Montana, and recently did time reporting on Superfund, grizzly bears and trout at The Montana Standard in Butte, America.
“It’s profoundly sad,” a nurse at Missoula’s Community Medical Center said. “You don’t want the community to feel like they can’t come here and get good care.”
An out-of-state transfer center is among troubling accounts from current and former employees at Missoula’s private equity-owned Community Medical Center.
As senators scrutinize the practices of hospitals owned by private equity firms, a new report includes the alleged sexual assaults of at least 15 female patients in Community Medical Center’s emergency department.
Follett Higher Education Group, a campus retail giant, is close to signing a contract to run the University of Montana bookstore, a potentially lucrative deal for Follett and UM—especially if Griz merch keeps flying off the shelves.