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Lara Salazar, CEO
Achieving high levels of health and wellbeing for all is within the United States’ grasp. As conversations about Medicaid funding shortfalls persist, it is important to consider the program’s inception.
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In the 1960s, the public pressured; the government responded. In order to achieve equitable health outcomes, we understood the need to eliminate poverty and racial injustice. With this in mind, funding for community health centers, such as Partnership Health Center (PHC), began at the same time as Medicare and Medicaid.
PHC has promoted wellbeing through comprehensive, patient-focused, equitable care for decades. To
recognize National Health Center Week, we are sharing the often-hidden impacts of social determinates
on health in our community. Providing access to excellent, whole-person health care saves $24 billion
(National Association of Community Health Centers) in annual health system costs and PHC alone,
through cutting-edge innovations, has saved Montana over $500,000.

PHC began as a community response filling the need for affordable primary care in Missoula County in
1989. Fast-forward 30 years, PHC now serves 16,000 individuals each year, attracting those who have many options
and those who have few. Our commitment to healthy people and strong communities fully embraces
issues of justice. As unequal outcomes in health persist, PHC expands sites that offer high-quality,
comprehensive access to medical, dental, and behavioral health services.
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Simultaneously, PHC is devoted to an “upstream” approach. This means that while PHC delivers
comprehensive services to individuals and families, we also work to effect changes at the policy level that
will improve health and wellbeing. Too often health care is limited to responding to health problems of
individual patients rather than working to mitigate structural conditions such as poverty, environmental
issues, and work-related conditions caused by regressive public policy.

Partnership Health Center's 5 Domains & Goals

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Who We Serve

52% of our patients report living at or below 200% of the federal poverty level. This means that they qualify for medical, dental, and behavioral health services at discounted costs.

29% of our patients live at or below 100% of the federal poverty level. For a single person, this means they live on less than $12,140 a year and for a family of four, this means they live on less than $25,100.

7% of our patients identify as homeless. Partnership Health Center is a Health Care for the Homeless grantee and we provide medical care five days a week and behavioral health care two days a week at our clinic in the Poverello Center.
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Insurance

  • 37% have Medicaid, CHIP or other public insurance
  • 17% of our patients do not have insurance
  • 27% have private insurance
  • 19% have Medicare
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Race & Ethnicity

  • 83% are White
  • 7% are American Indian/Alaskan Native
  • 2% are Black/African American
  • 1% are Asian
  • 4% identified as Hispanic/Latino
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Age

  • 13% are 17 and under
  • 9% are 18-24
  • 19% are 25-34
  • 15% are 35-44
  • 12% are 45-54  
  • 15% are 55-64
  • 17% are over 65
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401 Railroad St. W 
Missoula, MT 59802

​Main Line: (406) 258-4789
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Dental: (406) 258-4185
Behavioral Health: (406) 258-4789
Pharmacy: (406) 258-4139
Billing: (406) 258-4195
Fax: (406) 258-4732

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We are conveniently located in downtown Missoula at 401 Railroad St. W. We are easily accessed from I-90 via the Orange Street Exit. PHC is also just blocks away from the Mountain Line Transfer Station, also located downtown.
This health center receives HHS funding and has Federal Public Health Service (PHS) deemed status with respect to certain health or health-related claims, including medical malpractice claims, for itself and its covered individuals.
 NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION: 
Partnership Health Center does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, disability, age, or sex (gender) in admission, or access to, or treatment, or employment in, its programs, services, or activities.  
Read the Full Notice:  Partnership Health Center Notice of Nondiscrimination
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provides language assistance services, including translated documents and oral interpretation, to individuals with limited English proficiency. We provide assistance in the following languages:
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Partnership Health Center respectfully acknowledges that we occupy the traditional homelands of the Séliš, Qĺispé, and Ktunaxa-Ksanka nations. We also recognize that these lands are a site of trade, medicine gathering, healing, and travel for other Native tribes in the area and is still home for many Indigenous people. We extend our gratitude for those who have stewarded this land since time immemorial.
 
We acknowledge that the health care system has played a role in the oppression of Indigenous peoples. We commit to ongoing learning about the impact of colonization on the health and wellbeing of Indigenous peoples, and we commit to meaningful action that reverses health inequities.

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    • Medical
    • Dental
    • Behavioral Health >
      • Self-Care Resources
    • Pharmacy
    • Telehealth
    • Additional Services >
      • Medicare Wellness Visit
      • Montana Cancer Screening Program
      • Medical Legal Partnership
      • Certified Application Counselors
      • Sports Physicals
  • Patients
    • Appointments >
      • Online Scheduling
    • Forms
    • Financial Assistance >
      • Sliding Fee Scale
      • Good Faith Estimate
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