Local nurses have delivered a petition to the PeaceHealth Board of Directors, signed by more than 6,800 supporters of Eugene Emergency Physicians. It’s the latest effort to call out the hospital system’s plan to outsource emergency room care to an out-of-state corporate group.
Since becoming a registered nurse in 2000, Brandy Kirlin has worked side-by-side with EEP docs in PeaceHealth emergency departments. Now, she has grave concerns about the hospital’s plan to swap the physicians she knows and trusts, with traveling doctors hired by Georgia-based ApolloMD.
“When you replace an entire ER, my fear is that there’s going to be a whole lot of stumbling around,” Kirlin said. “Things are gonna get missed. And doing it on such a large scale is going to cost someone their life.”…