Editing Missoula, Montana (section)

===Health care===
Missoula has two primary health care facilities: [[St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center]] and [[Community Medical Center (Montana)|Community Medical Center]]. St. Patrick's was founded in 1873 under the sponsorship of the Sisters of Providence. It is the only [[Level&nbsp;II trauma center]] in western Montana<ref name="American College of Surgeons">{{cite web |url=https://www.facs.org/search/trauma-centers?state=MT |title=Trauma Centers: Montana |website=American College of Surgeons |location=Chicago |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006170917/https://www.facs.org/search/trauma-centers?state=MT |archive-date=October 6, 2015}}</ref> and has undergone three major expansions since the 1980s. The hospital has 195 acute-care beds and admitted over 9,700 patients in 2003. The name was changed from "St. Patrick Hospital" to "St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center" in 2000 to reflect an increasing involvement with national medical research and education.<ref name="SaintPatrick"/> The Community Medical Center and its adjacent medical facilities are located near Fort Missoula and is part of a modern complex that includes a nursing home, the Missoula Crippled Children's Center, and private offices.<ref name="Wirth">{{cite web |title=History |last=Wirth |first=Rudolph E. |url=http://communitymed.org/index.php/contact/about-us/history/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150826144025/http://communitymed.org/index.php/contact/about-us/history/ |archive-date=August 26, 2015 |url-status=live |publisher=Community Medical Center}}</ref> It was founded in 1922 as Thornton Hospital by doctors Will Thornton and Charles Thornton and has been at its current location since 1972. Although originally a locally owned, nonprofit hospital, it is now owned by a large corporation headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a for-profit entity. It is the only hospital in Western Montana with a separate Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. The center is partnered with [[Seattle Children's]] Hospital.<ref name="Wirth"/> The nearest [[Level&nbsp;I trauma center]] to Missoula is [[Harborview Medical Center]] in [[Seattle, Washington]].