No time-line yet for restarting elective surgeries

In an effort to combat major profit losses, Kalispell Regional Healthcare recently announced the start of a “COVID-19 furlough” that has cut hours and/or wages for some 600 hospital employees and reduced salaries for physicians, executives and others. But when staff and the community can expect operations at the valley’s largest employer to return to normal, the current answer from hospital officials is “no one can reliably predict” when that may be...