Hospital serves as regional lifeline

One hundred and ten years ago, intrepid and big-hearted Sisters of Mercy answered the call of the Bishop of the Diocese of Helena and journeyed nearly 1,500 miles from their comfortable Iowa motherhouse to remote Northwest Montana and developed the Kalispell General Hospital that eventually became Kalispell Regional Healthcare. In keeping with their mission and with the gradual arrival of specialist physicians, the Sisters strongly encouraged and supported medical outreach, initially to the smaller towns of Polson and Libby....