PeaceHealth has placed Jim McGovern, chief hospital executive at PeaceHealth Medical Center at RiverBend, on leave following allegations he worked outside of his administrative scope and tried to influence the emergency care of patients.
It comes after the hospital’s Medical Executive Committee received more than 300 pages of emails allegedly showing McGovern trying to actively manage how patients were treated, according to documents and a recording of a Wednesday, April 8, meeting reviewed and authenticated by Lookout Eugene-Springfield.
An administrative license, which is what McGovern holds in Oregon, does not permit him to make decisions that those with an active medical doctor license in the emergency department make…