Mary Sterhan, Greater Valley Health Center’s CEO since 2019, held up a microphone while standing in front of the new facility for a ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday afternoon. She started to tear up, collecting herself before speaking.

“My job, if I choose to accept it, is not to cry during this time, which everyone knows I’m kind of prone to do,” Sterhan said. “But it’s an important message, so I want it to be clear, and I want folks to be able to hear it. This is the final stop for me in a long career of healthcare.”

Moving the community center’s Kalispell services into a new space, all under the same roof, is the last big action item for Sterhan. She’s retiring at the end of the year to spend more time with family in Helena, a particularly “bittersweet” feeling in light of the ope

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