While preventive and primary care offers the best path to health and wellness, Bullhook Community Health Center also offers a continuum of services including management of acute and chronic disease, dental care, mental health and substance use disorder treatment and a pharmacy conveniently located on site.
Our providers and staff are also your neighbors. Together, we promise to deliver compassionate, quality, and affordable healthcare to you and your family.
We believe that all people should have access to high-quality health care, regardless of financial or other barriers. In addition, as a community health center we provide cost-effective and comprehensive primary and preventative care to all people including medically underserved and uninsured people. Patients who are at or below the federal poverty guidelines may qualify for the sliding scale discount program.
Yes. EVERYONE IS WELCOME at Bullhook Community Health Center regardless of financial status. Low income patients may qualify for the sliding fee scale if they are at or below the federal poverty guidelines.
Yes. Bullhook Community Health Center offers billing to all private insurance.
Community health centers are private, not-for-profit, consumer directed health care corporations which provide high quality, cost-effective and comprehensive primary and preventative care to underserved and uninsured people.
Patients bring in proof of income, usually three consecutive paycheck stubs or the most recent tax return for all adults in their household that bring in income. For individuals without this documentation, our administrative staff can assist you. Once a patient’s income is established, our staff can determine which sliding scale category you fall into and then calculate the discount you are eligible to receive.
Any patient established at BCHC is eligible for a discount through the 340B drug program regardless of income.
Our clinics have arrangements in place with both local and regional specialists and can assist you in accessing this care.
Primary care is the provision of integrated, accessible health care services by physicians and their health care teams who are accountable for addressing a large majority of personal health care needs, developing a sustained partnership with patients, and practicing in the context of family and community.
Our providers can assess and diagnose depression and other mental health needs for established patients, and will work with the patient’s behavioral health specialist to ensure coordination and continuity of care.
In the early 2000s, a consortium of health and social service providers, faith-based representatives, educational consultants and members of the Hutterite community recognized a need to offer medical and health care management services with a sliding fee scale to people in the community and region.
In September 2005, Bullhook Community Health Clinic opened under the umbrella of the Hill County Health Department, funded by a federal Healthy Communities Access Planning Grant. The clinic offered in house medical services and provided service vouchers for dental, vision, mental health, travel and education to Hill County residents needing additional care.
In January 2006, Bullhook Clinic received notice that federal funding would be eliminated. Determined to continue providing quality, low-cost health care services to residents, in December the Clinic applied for a Federal New Access Community Health Center Grant.
On July 1, 2007, a federal Community Health Center Grant was awarded to the board of directors for the new organization called Bullhook Community Health Center, Inc. (BCHC).
The New Access Community Health Center Grant allowed the organization to become a free-standing, non-profit entity under the governance of a patient majority board of directors.
Relocated to a new facility in 2014, BCHC expanded patient services. Today, BCHC provides primary care, health and wellness exams for infants through seniors, dental care, behavioral health care, assistance with management of chronic illness plus many additional services.
Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line
Havre Area Chamber of Commerce
Havre Public Schools
Hill County Health Department
Human Resources Development Council
MT Asthma Control Program
Public Assistance
MT Tobacco Quit Line
North Havre Food Bank
Quality Life Concepts
Suicide Prevention
Naloxone Treatment Resources
Poison Prevention