The local, physician-owned group, Eugene Emergency Physicians, has said, “no to Apollo MD.”
EEP spokesperson Scott Williams told KLCC 41 doctors and Physicians Assistants have banded together to refuse to work for the Atlanta-based management company. PeaceHealth recently announced it had chosen Apollo MD to take over staffing of its hospital emergency departments. The company has no experience in Oregon.
Williams said all the partners of EEP have signed a mutual agreement. The agreement is for at least 90 days after June 30, the date when the contract between PeaceHealth and Eugene Emergency Physicians ends.
Last November, PeaceHealth put out a request for proposals for a new emergency medicine service provider, ending a 35-year partnership with EEP.
