Attorneys for PeaceHealth moved this week to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Eugene Emergency Physicians, alleging the health care system’s deal with Georgia-based ApolloMD violates Oregon’s law regulating the corporate practice of medicine.
The legal challenge is part of broader fallout between PeaceHealth leadership and Eugene Emergency Physicians, or EEP, after a public split over a 35-year contract the hospital awarded to a new corporate staffing company to provide emergency department doctors in Cottage Grove, Florence, and RiverBend.
The Monday, April 20, filing is the most detailed response so far from defendant PeaceHealth in the case. Along with plaintiffs Karen Stapleton and Dr. Dan McGee — citing concerns about care for their child and practice, respectively — EEP filed a motion for a preliminary injunction April 8 in the Eugene Division of the U.S. District Court…