Ruby Valley Medical Center

What Ruby Valley Medical Center does

Ruby Valley Medical Center is a non-profit community hospital located in Sheridan, Montana, founded in 1964 and operating continuously for over six decades. It provides a defined set of clinical services — radiology, laboratory, physical therapy, speech-language pathology, and 24-hour emergency care — to the population of the Ruby Valley region in southwest Montana. As a rural facility, it functions as a critical-access provider, offering the minimum acute-care infrastructure required so that local residents are not forced to travel long distances for emergency or basic diagnostic services.

The organization employs between 101 and 250 staff, consistent with a small critical-access hospital footprint. No detailed revenue model, payer mix, or financial disclosures are available in the input data, and the primary corporate web property (rvmc.org) returned only a loading/verification screen at the time of data collection, so no proprietary technology, product detail, or partnership information could be verified. The publicly stated value proposition is the breadth of on-site services under one roof, combined with continuous emergency availability — positioning the facility as the default local provider rather than a differentiated commercial enterprise.

Operationally, the business model follows the standard U.S. rural hospital template: non-profit status, reliance on Medicare/Medicaid cost reimbursement, Critical Access Hospital designation (implied by service scope and scale), and a community-board governance structure. No fundraising rounds, M&A activity, leadership changes, or product launches are documented in the input. The competitive position is structurally protected by geographic isolation, but is correspondingly exposed to demographic and reimbursement shifts affecting its single catchment area.

Name

Ruby Valley Medical Center

Website

https://rvmc.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1964

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Ruby Valley Medical Center is a non-profit rural community hospital in Sheridan, Montana, founded in 1964, providing 24-hour emergency, radiology, laboratory, physical therapy, speech-language, and pathology services to the local Ruby Valley population.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Rural Hospital Services

NAICS

Freestanding Ambulatory Surgical and Emergency Centers (621493), Diagnostic Imaging Centers (621512), Outpatient Care Centers (6214)

SIC

Services-General Medical & Surgical Hospitals, Nec (8062)

akta.pro primary industry

Independent Diagnostic Testing Facilities (IDTFs) & Multi-Specialty Diagnostic Centers (HLAFAKAN)

akta.pro secondary industries

Radiology Imaging Centers (X-ray/CT/MRI/Ultrasound) (HLAFAKAA), Hospital-Operated Urgent Care Centers (HLAFADAC)

Keywords

• Rural hospital services
• Emergency medical care
• Diagnostic imaging
• Rehabilitation therapy
• Clinical laboratory

Headquarters

HQ city

Sheridan

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain

Core offering

Ruby Valley Medical Center is a rural community hospital that provides 24-hour emergency care, radiology, laboratory, physical therapy, speech-language pathology, and general pathology services to residents of its surrounding region. The organization operates as a single-site acute and outpatient care provider, delivering both urgent and scheduled clinical services to local patients.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• 24-hour Emergency Care
• Radiology Services Diagnostic imaging services provided on site for physician-referred patients and emergency cases.
• Clinical Laboratory Services On-site clinical laboratory testing supporting diagnosis, monitoring, and emergency care for patients.
• Physical Therapy Outpatient physical therapy services for patients recovering from injury, surgery, or managing chronic conditions.
• Speech-Language Pathology Evaluation and therapy services for patients with speech, language, communication, or swallowing disorders.
• Pathology Services General pathology services supporting clinical diagnosis and treatment decisions for patients.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• Logan Health: Regional Montana health system based in Kalispell, providing hospital and outpatient services including imaging, lab, and therapy. Comparable service mix but much larger geographic and clinical footprint.
• Benefis Health System: Large regional health system in Great Falls, MT operating hospitals and multi-specialty clinics with imaging, lab, and emergency services. Comparable service lines but broader geographic scale and portfolio.
• Billings Clinic: Physician-led integrated health system in Billings, MT operating a hospital with emergency, imaging, lab, and therapy services. Comparable service breadth at significantly larger scale.
• St. Vincent Healthcare: Regional hospital in Billings, MT (part of Intermountain Health) offering emergency, imaging, lab, and rehabilitation services. Comparable service lines as a broader incumbent competitor.

Direct peers

• North Valley Hospital: Critical access hospital in Whitefish, MT offering emergency, imaging, lab, and therapy services. Comparable in rural Montana community hospital positioning.
• Madison Valley Medical Center: Small rural Montana medical center providing emergency care, imaging, lab, and therapy services. Closely comparable in size, service mix, and rural critical-access operating profile.
• Clark Fork Valley Hospital: Critical access hospital in Plains, MT providing emergency, imaging, lab, and outpatient services. Comparable rural Montana peer with similar service breadth.
• Barrett Hospital & Healthcare: Critical access hospital in Dillon, MT offering 24-hour emergency, imaging, lab, rehabilitation, and outpatient specialty services. Directly comparable in scale, rural Montana footprint, and multi-service community hospital model.
• Pioneer Medical Center: Critical access hospital in Big Timber, MT offering emergency, radiology, lab, and rehabilitation services. Comparable as a small rural Montana multi-service community facility.

Regional players

• St. James Healthcare: Community hospital in Butte, MT (part of Intermountain Health) providing emergency, imaging, lab, and outpatient services. Comparable Montana community hospital model but anchored in a different regional catchment.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/rubyvalleymedicalcenter
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ruby-valley-hospital

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Ruby Valley Medical Center