Paramedics call it “the wall.”
They hit it after rolling patients on gurneys from their ambulances into emergency departments where beds are full and no nurses are available to take over care.
Chris Paskett, Eugene Springfield Fire’s assistant chief of emergency operations, has walked through the emergency department of PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend to find a line of his crews — sometimes five deep, down the wall, treating patients on the hospital floor…