If a deal between Billings Clinic and RegionalCare Hospital Partners to purchase Community Medical Center is approved after a months-long regulatory process, the Missoula hospital will become one of nearly 1,070 for-profit hospitals nationwide. Community is currently one of about 2,890 non-governmental, not-for-profit locally based hospitals, out of the more than 5,720 registered hospitals in the U.S. Community Medical Center's volunteer board and hospital leadership spent more than a year narrowing down a list of contenders with whom to partner, and earlier this month chose Billings Clinic and RegionalCare.
