Three years after Billings Clinic cut the ribbon on its facility in west Bozeman, the health system announced with Bozeman Health on Thursday that the two plan to collaborate on expanded services in the area.

The announcement of the formal agreement between the two comes a year after a more informal move in the relationship, when Bozeman Health began leasing space in the Billings Clinic facility on Wellness Way. Billings Clinic staff have also worked out of Bozeman Health’s Deaconess Regional Medical Center for years.

The leaders of the two systems, Dr. Kathryn Bertany with Bozeman Health and Billings Clinic's Dr. Clint Seger, kept talking over the last year and decided to make it more official.

“This is a great campus,” Bertany said Thursday. “Our care teams work well together, and

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