Emergency
Here When Every Second Matters.
Vista Plains Health is a Trauma Receiving Facility, offering 24/7 emergency care services in Harlowtown, Montana. Our staff and physicians of the Emergency Department have undergone special training to provide the most current knowledge and life-saving skills.
Some patients may need to be admitted to the hospital following their emergency treatment, while others can be released home. If this facility provides emergency services, it must not deny those services to a person who needs them but cannot pay for them.
For more information about emergency care, call 406.632.4351
Emergency Services
Please come to the emergency room if you are experiencing:
- Persistent chest pain, especially if it radiates your arm or jaw or is accompanied by sweating, vomiting or shortness of breath
- Difficulty breathing
- Any severe pain
- Sudden clumsiness, loss of balance or fainting
- Sudden difficulty speaking, or trouble understanding speech
- Altered mental status or confusion, including suicidal thoughts
- Sudden weakness or paralysis, especially on one side of the face or body
- Severe heart palpitations
- Sudden, severe headache
- Newborn baby with a fever (a baby less than three months old with a temperature of 100.4 degrees or higher needs to be seen right away)
- Falls that cause injury or occur while taking blood thinning medications
- Sudden vision changes
- Broken bones or dislocated joints
- Deep cuts that require stitches or a large open wound that won’t stop bleeding
- Head or eye injuries
- High fevers or fevers with rash
- Vaginal bleeding during pregnancy
- Severe and persistent vomiting or diarrhea
- Serious burns
- Seizures without a previous diagnosis of epilepsy