PeaceHealth Oregon

The local, physician-owned group, Eugene Emergency Physicians, has said, “no to Apollo MD.”

PeaceHealth has begun another round of layoffs, affecting skilled caregivers across its hospital system. The staffing reduction is the third such move in the past nine months.

PeaceHealth will end its 35-year contract with Eugene Emergency Physicians and replace the local group with Atlanta-based ApolloMD to staff ERs in Springfield, Florence, and Cottage Grove. Local doctors cite rising wait times and worsening conditions at RiverBend. All 41 EEP providers have signed an agreement refusing to work for ApolloMD after June 30.

For decades, PeaceHealth Oregon has contracted with the local group, Eugene Emergency Physicians, to staff its emergency departments. Come June, that contract will not be renewed. Instead, the hospital system has chosen Atlanta-based ApolloMD as its emergency medicine partner in Springfield, Florence and Cottage Grove.

PeaceHealth announced another round of employee layoffs this week.

Neighboring landowners hope to block PeaceHealth’s behavioral health hospital and a Lane County mental health crisis center

Everyone Village in Eugene opens on-site medical clinic to serve unhoused residents and recuperating patients.

Bushnell University says its Eugene campus is about to undergo a major expansion.

It’s been one year since PeaceHealth Sacred Heart shut down the only emergency room in Eugene, and started rerouting patients to its Riverbend hospital in Springfield.

The Oregon Nurses Association is accusing PeaceHealth Sacred Heart in Springfield of breaking the state’s new safe staffing law.

Homecare and hospice nurses at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart in Springfield have agreed to a contract after more than one year of bargaining. They say they feared the provider would shutter their services if they went on strike again.

Homecare and hospice nurses at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart in Springfield have authorized a second strike that could last indefinitely.