About

Shodair Children's Hospital is a nonprofit children's psychiatric hospital in Helena, Montana. The hospital provides acute and residential psychiatric care for children and adolescents, along with medical genetics services for patients of all ages.

Shodair traces its origins to 1896, when it began as a home for orphaned and abandoned children. Its history page says the institution later became Montana's first facility to treat children with polio, its first facility with a department of medical genetics, and its first chemical dependency unit dedicated to adolescents.

The hospital's public materials describe four child and adolescent residential treatment units, including an acute unit, a children's unit, and two adolescent units. The School at Shodair serves residential and acute patients; Shodair describes it as a year-round program accredited through Cognia.

Shodair states that it has held Joint Commission accreditation continuously since 1992. Its campus address is 2755 Colonial Drive in Helena.