Havre cancer center to re-open this spring

Hospitals in Havre and Great Falls have worked out an agreement to work in partnership to re-open a cancer center in Havre.

Northern Montana Hospital of Havre and Benefis Health System in Great Falls announced in a press release today that they will jointly reopen and operate the Hi-Line Sletten Cancer Center.

The center was open in Havre from 2008 to 2012. Before and after it was open, people from the Hi-Line had to travel, typically to Great Falls or Billings, to receive treatments of cancer.

The center closed after the Benefis said that due to new regulations and low numbers of patients, it was closing the Hi-Line center.

Today’s release says Benefis and Northern Montana Hospital plan to have the Hi-Line center open before June.

Watch for a full story in Friday’s edition of the Havre Daily News.