Two members of Eugene Emergency Physicians went before an Oregon Senate Committee in Salem Thursday, to address issues related to emergency department staffing changes in Lane County.
At an informational hearing of the Senate Committee on Veterans, Emergency Management, Federal and World Affairs, the doctors described EEP as the county’s safety net on the frontline of public health and disaster response.
They spoke to the importance of being local, especially as “corporate medicine” in hospitals has become a national trend. And they shared their concerns about ApolloMD, the Georgia-based company that PeaceHealth has chosen to replace them in emergency departments in Springfield and Cottage Grove…