Community Receives Lifepoint Health Operations Excellence Award

Community Medical Center recently earned the Lifepoint Health Operations Excellence Award at the organization’s annual awards ceremony held on February 24, 2026. The award recognizes outstanding overall performance across Lifepoint’s acute care, rehabilitation and behavioral health business sectors and is given to five exemplary facilities each year that have demonstrated a strong commitment to quality improvement, service line growth, talent and workforce development, financial performance and expanding the hospital’s leadership role in the community.

Community Medical Center received the award for Lifepoint Health’s western division of acute care hospitals.

“We are proud to receive this award, which highlights our entire team’s commitment to continuous growth and advancement as we work to provide a higher level of care for our patients in Missoula and throughout western Montana,“ said Greg Cook, chief executive officer of Community Medical Center. “We are energized by the progress made in 2025 and excited for the opportunities ahead in 2026.”

 The award was accepted by hospital leaders Ryan Pugh, Sandy Leggett, Dr. Bonnie Stephens, Hollie Nagel & Greg Cook.

“Throughout 2025, the Community Medical Center team has made great strides across a number of key operational areas, and their incredible success reflects hard work and determination to advance care for those they serve,” said Jason Zachariah, president and chief operating officer of Lifepoint Health. “We are proud to recognize them with this well-deserved award and support their continued growth and success.”

About Community Medical Center
Community Medical Center is a health system comprising adult and pediatric health care delivery systems. The 151-bed hospital is in Missoula, Montana and is part of Lifepoint Health and Billings Clinic. Community Medical Center is proud to be the only hospital in Montana to earn The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for Advanced Certification in Perinatal Care, to have achieved Western Montana’s only Chest Pain Accreditation, and the hospital’s cancer center is accredited by the Commission on Cancer for advanced clinical care, scientific research and technological inventions. For more information about Community Medical Center, please call (406) 728-4100 or visit CommunityMed.org. For more information about Lifepoint Health, visit LifepointHealth.net.

About Lifepoint Health
Lifepoint Health is a leading healthcare provider that serves patients, clinicians, communities and partner organizations across the healthcare continuum. Driven by a mission of making communities healthier®, the company has a growing diversified healthcare delivery network comprised of nearly 55,000 dedicated employees, 60 community hospital campuses, more than 70 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals and more than 300 additional sites of care, including managed acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. For more information about the company, visit www.LifepointHealth.net.