Shodair Children's Hospital is creating a healthy and hopeful Montana through specialized psychiatric care for children and adolescents along with a nationally recognized genetics program providing care for all ages. 99% of our patients come from right here in Montana. And, because no family should have to worry about the cost to help their loved one.
We don't turn anyone away. Help us create a healthy and hopeful Montana. Shodair's Medical Genetics Program provides Montana's only comprehensive care for children and adults with genetic conditions. A team composed of a medical geneticist and a genetic counselor provides services including diagnostic evaluation, care coordination, and risk assessment.
We don't turn anyone away. Help us create a healthy and hopeful Montana. Shodair's Medical Genetics Program provides Montana's only comprehensive care for children and adults with genetic conditions. A team composed of a medical geneticist and a genetic counselor provides services including diagnostic evaluation, care coordination, and risk assessment.
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Shodair is creating a healthy and hopeful Montana through specialized psychiatric care for children and adolescents along with a nationally recognized genetics program providing care for all ages. Shodair Children's Hospital became a Children's Miracle Network Hospital in 1987 and remains the only CMN hospital in Montana.
Suicide deaths and attempts are an epidemic in Montana. The state's youth suicide rates are nearly double the national average, and Montana has ranked in the top five for suicide rates in the nation for the past thirty years. To be eligible, all participants must be between the ages of 13 and 18, enrolled in a public school, private school, or home school in Montana.
Shodair Children's Hospital is proud to offer premier psychiatric treatment for children and adolescents, and comprehensive genetic services for people of all ages. If you have questions about how we can help a member of your family, please contact us. Additionally, we value your comments regarding this website.
Stress and adversity are universal to the human experience. To heal from this adversity, Shodair utilizes the Sanctuary Model as a blueprint for clinical and organizational culture. This cultural model promotes safety and recovery from adversity through the active creation of a trauma informed community.
Reviews (10)
Koi Chinikaylo
Jan 20, 2022
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Only reason for two stars is I meet some very amazing people there and not all the staff were terrible. But don't send your kid here the food is barely considered edible and they will just drug you kid up with medication that clearly doesn't work. Also they didn't start checking that people took there medication till someone overdosed, also they let me pierce my nose well didn't let me but they didn't stop me and I did it at the nurses desk. I luckily had a good therapist when I was there but some of the other therapists were very concerning at least with what I heard from other patients. But it
DWBonny
Sep 06, 2021
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Many years ago, when I was employed as a substitute teacher at their previous location, the primary job qualification was willingness to respond to “Dr. Armstrong” alerts, meaning yet another adolescent had lost it. We had to safely surround and restrain the individual until a doctor arrived to inject a sedative. The worst part, imho, was that it became glaringly clear that they were raking in lots of education $$$ under the guise of providing educational services to kids not exactly in the best frame of mind to benefit from being made to fill out boring social studies and other workbooks six
Mattie Gaither
Jul 28, 2021
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I definitely would never come back to this place. Two years ago I was on a one on one because I was suicidal and I ran away with one of my friends by a fire alarm. She was hit and killed by a vehicle and I was locked in a room for 48hours alone after. Then sent to another hospital. They handled it all super bad(with the exception of two staff members). We were not the first to run away so they should’ve fixed the issue; or we would’ve been safe.
Octavia Counts
Jun 18, 2021
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Please don’t send your kids here for outpatient therapy! I brought my 7 year old here to help her and also to help me help her with anger and emotions. Her therapist called CPS after 3 sessions! I understand that they are mandatory reporters but The claims were utterly ridiculous and she would have known this had she investigated just a little bit. Even just asking my daughter about it more probably would have cleared it up. I confronted her and asked nicely if it was her and she said she can’t tell me anything. I also asked her to talk to me about my daughter and what she thinks and what is
Tyl
Jun 06, 2021
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So i was a patient admitted at the end of August 2020 and left at the end of October 2020. This place is a giant mix. One big thing is who you're here with. For me i met some of the coolest people i know and we are still friends I wouldn't trade them for anything, but it is also a treatment center so no it isn't fun. I spent most of my time on Glacier (i was in Acute for the first 5 days where i then got sent up to Glacier). Glacier has some of the best MHTs who are obviously real people who just want to help. Three in particular stick out but for privacy i will use only the first 2 letters of
Chris Swetish
Feb 07, 2021
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This hospital should be shut down. They falsified records of my child; and the worst part of it, is that my child got his foot slammed in the door and his toe got broken. They acted like this was nothing. The social worker was awful and was threatening to call CPS on me because I could not get off of work on her time to talk to her. I had to get lawyer involved. The lawyer and multiple doctors told me this is the worst place to send your child for psychiatric treatment. For the safety of your child, I would recommend to send your child to Missoula for treatment. The staff is kind and is a much
Brandi Weldon
Jan 02, 2021
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Active Aj
Sep 15, 2020
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The majority of the staff were awesome as long as you kept in line and did not break the rules, did your schoolwork, and didn’t get restrained. Me as a patient at Shodair they cared whether it was a good or a bad day for the patient. This is coming from a 8 month long patient. Thank you Shodair for turning around my life!
Alexander Masse
Aug 30, 2020
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I have been to shodair 4 times for mental help with my depression and 2 times were for a actual suicide attempt. when i got there for the first time i was told i would feel safe and be safe there this was impossible as on several occasions during my first stay i was assaulted verbally and physically by patients given too many medications and was ignored when expressing that the medication was not helping me. i also found i was neglected by staff and my room felt like a prison cell it was small with plain walls a bed and a locked cabinet that contained my clothes not to mention 3 cameras.I had to
Ronald Barker
Jan 21, 2020
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Six months ago our child was admitted for mental health stabilization. The providers let him stay in his room, which looked like a prison, with very little interaction. On the third day the social worker finally saw him. She knew very little of him and asked us what resources we needed, not him. She stated she was going to coordinate a neuropsych evaluation and never did. Very, very poor service with inadequate staff.
