Billings Clinic has a new name.  The nonprofit healthcare organization has operated in a combined capacity with Logan Health since 2023. Logan Health owns hospitals in Kalispell, Whitefish and several small communities on the Hi-Line, while Billings Clinic operates in Billings and runs satellit e locations in Bozeman, Red Lodge and Columbus, among other communities. Under one administrative roof, the organization has more than 25 clinics and hospitals and 9,000 employees throughout Montana and northern Wyoming, according to a press release announcing the change.  As of this week, the organization will now be called One Sky Health.  Tuesday afternoon, staff, administrators and community partners filled the atrium and second-floor balcony of Billings Clinic to watch the announcement. People waved small purple pom-poms and ate cookies. Party music played from giant speakers near a stage.  While Billings Clinic and Logan Health have operated administratively as a single organization for three years, CEO Clint Seger told Montana Free Press the two organizations haven’t been fully integrated — as was always the goal — until now. For instance, for much of that time, Logan Health facilities haven’t shared a patient-records system with Billings Clinic facilities.  It’s typically a years-long process to merge two hospitals, and One Sky Health’s transition was relatively quick, Seger said.  “We wanted to wait and put a name on this organization when we were actually functioning like one organization, and that people would feel that,” Seger said.  This year, for the first time, employees of the organization formerly known as Billings Clinic-Logan Health will receive benefits under the same system. Open enrollment starts Wednesday, and Seger told the crowd that One Sky Health is able to offer medical, dental and vision insurance to all employees across the system without raising rates from the current year. By spring, all clinics and hospitals under the One Sky Health banner will operate on the same electronic health records system. Kalispell and Whitefish are the only facilities yet to come on board, Seger said. That integration will make it quicker for patients to get care in different locations, and easier for doctors to access patient histories, he said.  Having Billings Clinic and Logan Health locations fully integrated will also help make medical care in the region more consistent and sustainable, Seger said.  Staff, administrators and community partners fill the atrium and second-floor balcony of Billings Clinic to watch Billings Clinic CEO Clint Seger announce the One Sky Health rebrand on Nov. 10, 2026, in Billings. Credit: Phoebe Tollefson / MTFP For example, One Sky Health has just one pediatric endocrinologist in Billings and another in Kalispell. Those doctors treat children with diabetes, among other conditions. When they take time off, their patients lose local access to their care, which puts pressure on the physicians to never leave town. Now, their counterpart can cover calls in their absence, providing guidance to on-the-ground doctors who need a specialist’s guidance to treat patients.  “It’s making sure the bottom doesn’t fall out of these unique specialties in Montana that we need to have,” Seger said in an interview after his public remarks.   It took a while to select the new name, Seger said. Staff floated almost 600 ideas, sometimes stopping Seger in a hallway to pitch a new one, he said. The team spearheading the decision wanted something short and simple, and without made-up words. Part of the challenge was finding a name that wasn’t already trademarked, he said. He called it “a gift” when a workable name was finally identified.  Local hospitals and clinics will retain the root names of their existing facilities. For instance, the facility in Billings will be One Sky Health Billings Clinic, and in Whitefish it will be One Sky Health North Valley Hospital, Seger said.  Billings Clinic’s mission will carry through into One Sky Health, including its commitment to “the entirety of the healthcare continuum, from the most rural clinic to local behavioral health, psychiatric services to the most complex ICU care,” Seger said. “A health system that measures its own value in the number of strong communities that are connected to it — not by the height of buildings.”  There was a pause, some chuckles and then outright laughter as people recognized the reference to in-town rival Intermountain Health’s massive construction project a few blocks north, which will replace five outdated buildings.  Board of Directors Chair Amy Cebull took the stage after Seger and delivered brief remarks about the meaning of the change.  “One Sky Health is more than a new name. It is a renewed promise, a promise to honor our past, embrace our future and always put our communities first,” Cebull said.  In-depth, independent reporting on the stories impacting your community from reporters who know your town. The post Billings Clinic announces new name: One Sky Health appeared first on Montana Free Press. ...read more read less