Lewistown

Clinic: Central Montana Medical Center, located at 408 Wendell Avenue, houses many physicians to serve our vast service area.  Specialties include Family Medicine, Family Medicine with OB, Internal Medicine, General Surgery, Orthopedics, Podiatry, and many visiting specialists.  Primary hospital call is shared with all the primary care physicians. Students also work with family physicians at the Central Montana Community Health Clinic. Lewistown has been a WRITE site since 2005 and hosts R/UOP and TRUST students.

Hospital: Built in 1977, the Central Montana Medical Center (CMMC) is located at 408 Wendell Avenue. This 25-bed critical access hospital, that provides service to a population spread over 17,000 square miles. It offers 24-hour emergency room and ambulance service and full-range rehabilitation services. CMMC is supported by an active staff of 23 local physicians/providers, and many consulting/visiting staff, who provide regular monthly services at the facility. These services represent most medical specialties. The hospital’s web site is https://www.cmmc.health/

What to Expect:
At CMMC, you will experience the heart of rural medicine, covering all aspects of patient care, from newborn to eldercare. In addition to the FM, Peds, IM, and Psychiatry experiences required by the WRITE program, WRITE students are able to work with other community physicians and in the ER. One Health – Lewistown is a community-based, outpatient primary health care center designed to serve the whole communities of Fergus County and is where students will engage with Dr. Katie Williams and Dr. Jacob Forke.

Housing:
One or two bedrooms, kitchen, laundry, wifi, cable, backyard, and carport but no garage. No pets allowed. Situated close to downtown and a running trail. Hospital is one mile away (uphill).

Transportation: There is not an airport in Lewistown which provides service through Skyline Aviation, though most travelers flying into Lewistown opt to use the Billings or Great Falls airports.

Extracurricular Activities:
One of the major attractions of Lewistown and the surrounding areas is the opportunity for year-round outdoor recreation. There are bike/hiking trails in and around town, including an extensive line of rails to trails; nearby state and national parks; the hospital has a gym that the students can use for free; skiing at Showdown (a two-hour drive); lots of snowmobiling in the Snowies and Little Belt mountains; and a new Big Spring Market that has organic food, fresh local produce when available, and fresh bread daily. In addition, there is golfing, fishing, hunting, camping, shooting, canoeing, bird watching, rock climbing, skiing, snowmobiling, skating, biking, hiking, and wildlife viewing are just a few of the activities which can be done at many nearby sites. Additional sites include the Charlie Russell Chew Choo and historic Lewistown.

Weather Trends:
The average daytime temperature in January is 30° F and the daily temperature averages 70° F in July.