Whitefish's first hospital still stands as a two-and-a-half story apartment building on the southwest corner of Spokane and Fourth Street. This hospital opened its doors to those needing medical attention in 1905 with a staff of two nurses and a Great Northern Railway physician, Dr. Hugh E. Houston. The second hospital site was at Park Avenue and Sixth Street. Dr. John B. Simons, who began his practice in
Whitefish in 1937, opened a hospital bearing his name in 1947, with $80,000 from private sources and the Federal Reconstruction Finance Corp. The current hospital consists 18,792 square foot building houses four (4) medical clinics, the Flathead County Home Health Agency, and the hospital's Rehabilitation/Sports Medicine Clinic.