Dear Montana Western Faculty and Staff,

Governor Bullock announced yesterday a new statewide effort to report COVID-19 cases within Montana schools as part of the existing Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) dashboard webpage.

The report will include the total number of previous and active cases by county and data for individual K-12 schools and universities. The updated demographic information will be reported weekly (scroll down on the dashboard page and click on “additional information on COVID-19 in Montana schools.”)

*Please note, as this is a new process, that data from all Montana counties are not currently available in this first report.  

For more information on the Governor’s announcement, please refer to the following news article:

https://nbcmontana.com/news/coronavirus/state-to-release-k-12-university-covid-19-data-weekly

The most current DPHHS Montana school data can be found below:

https://dphhs.mt.gov/Portals/85/publichealth/documents/CDEpi/DiseasesAtoZ/2019-nCoV/School%20cases%209162020%20(003).pdf

Montana Western will continue to support all public health authorities as sources of collection, management, and reporting for COVID-19 cases associated with our campus. We will keep you up to date on any new information we receive.

Sadie Caltrider, COVID-19 Testing Coordinator

Baylee Rawson, COVID-19 Communications Coordinator