When Camee Ridgeway began looking for healthcare after she moved to the Flathead Valley from Chicago nearly four years ago, she found herself on hospital waitlists and denied by neurologists whose patient lists were full.

“I was like, ‘yikes.’ What’s going on with the healthcare system?”

For Ridgeway, who has a series of health conditions – including a traumatic brain injury, chronic migraines, fibromyalgia and mitochondrial dysfunction resulting in chronic fatigue, pain, and frequent muscle cramps – having a team of doctors and specialists who know her was a priority.

Then she found Dr. Dan Gragert, the presiding physician at Bluebird Health in Kalispell, a direct primary care (DPC) clinic.

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