Public Health

• MMR (Measles/Mumps/Rubella)
• Varicella (Chicken Pox)
• Proquad (Mmrv – Measles/Mumps/Rubella/Varicella combo)
• Polio
• DTaP (Diptheria/Tetanus/Pertussis-Whooping Cough)
• Hib (Haemophilus Influenza Type B)
• PCV (Pneumoccocal Disease)
• RV (Rotavirus)
• Hep B (Hepatitis B)
• Influenza
• COVID -19
• RSV (0-24 months)

• Tdap (Tetanus/Pertussis-Whooping Cough)
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• Influenza
• COVID-19
• Menactra (Meningococcal Disease)
• HPV (Human Papillomavirus)

• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• Tdap (Tetanus/Pertussis-Whooping Cough)
• Influenza
• COVID-19
• HPV (women up to age 26)
• PCV (Pneumoccocal Disease)
• RSV
• Shingrix (Shingles Vaccine)
• PPD Testing (Tuberculin Skin Testing)

• Nurse Consulting for travel vaccines
• With 4-6 weeks’ notice ability to provide on-site travel vaccines

• A FREE telephone service for all Montanan’s – 1-800-QUIT-NOW
• A FREE personalized quit plan
• FREE cessation coaching personalized quit plan
• 5 FREE pro-active cessation coaching sessions
• 4 FREE weeks of nicotine replacement therapy (gum, patches or lozenges) if appropriate, for cigarette or smokeless tobacco users
• Chantix at a reduced cost ($50 co-pay per month for three months)
• Bupropion at reduced cost ($5 co-pay per month for three months)
• FREE educational materials for health care providers as well as friends and families of tobacco users
• A fax referral system for health care providers who have patients that want to quit using tobacco (see provider link)
• Trained staff that offers culturally appropriate services for American Indians
• Montana Quit Line Hours

• • Monday – Thursday: 7 a.m. – 9 p.m.
  • Friday: 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.
  • Saturday – Sunday: 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
  • We have 24-hour voicemail, so please leave us a message. We will call you back!

• Montana Tobacco Use Prevention Program Quit Line
  1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669)

In 2005, the Montana legislature passed the Clean Indoor Air Act (CIAA), one of the most important public health policies in state history. Laws like the CIAA reduce heart attack rates by at least 20 percent. They also reduce lung disease, including lung cancer, as well as other debilitating and fatal illnesses, and they protect unborn children and young children from health problems.
The law requires all enclosed public places and workplaces to be smokefree and it requires businesses to prominently place smokefree signs on all public entrances. The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services has adopted rules. The health benefits of the law are three-fold:

• Patrons and workers alike are protected from the deadly health effects of secondhand smoke exposure.
• More people who smoke will try to quit.
• Fewer Montana youth will begin smoking.

If you observe a violation of the Clean Indoor Air Act, you can file a complaint by completing an online form or calling 1-866-787-5247.

The Montana Tobacco Use Prevention Program (MTUPP) is promoting comprehensive smokefree policies among Montana public housing authorities and other federal, state, and local rent-restricted, multi-unit housing facilities. Such policies support MTUPP’s mission to improve the health of community members and address the number one cause of preventable disease and death – tobacco use. This project will help achieve MTUPP’s goals of reducing secondhand tobacco smoke exposure in the home among vulnerable, at-risk Montanans, including children and seniors.

Hospitals and medical facilities work in many ways to maintain and improve the health of people in their community. Providing an environment for patients, employees, and visitors that promotes and supports healthy lifestyles can help achieve this goal. Policies that create a tobacco-free medical campus contribute to this endeavor by eliminating exposure to secondhand smoke, encouraging tobacco users to quit, and sending a clear message that the use of tobacco does not support good health.

Carbon County is a Tobacco Free Campus as of January 11, 2016.

reACT Against Corporate Tobacco is Montana’s youth empowerment movement which encourages teens to educate their peers about the truth and facts of the tobacco industry. It’s education, motivation, and empowerment for Montana teens who choose to fight against corporate tobacco’s deceptive tactics.

reACT recognizes the power of teens’ determination, influence and ability to effect change. reACT focuses that power toward media literacy, peer education, and grassroots advocacy to motivate all Montana teens to fight back against corporate tobacco.

reACT joins statewide youth empowerment movements across the country in taking a stand and speaking, because Montana teens won’t be ‘replacement smokers’ for the tobacco industry.