EUGENE, Ore. — New information is revealed in court Monday, May 4, as PeaceHealth Oregon leadership painted a picture of a tense relationship between the hospital and Eugene Emergency Physicians (EEP) leading up to PeaceHealth’s decision not to renew its contracts with EEP to staff its Lane County Emergency Departments.
A federal judge hearing the lawsuit filed by EEP in March to pause the change, PeaceHealth Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kim Ruscher expanded on the hospital’s previous assertion that EEP was unable to scale its ED.
During her testimony Monday, Dr. Ruscher said there had been an ongoing sense of frustration among hospital leadership over problems not being addressed by EEP to improve processes and safety in its Emergency Departments…