Family Of Heart Patient Sues PeaceHealth For $1 Million
A family of a Veneta man who died after successive treatments by PeaceHealth physicians is suing the hospital group for more than $1 million.
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Briefly: ZoomCare Announces New CEO
Bill Frerichs, ZoomCare's senior vice president of retail health since 2016, will become CEO Jan. 1, replacing the company's current CEO and co-founder Dr. Dave Sanders.
The CEO of ZoomCare is stepping down at the end of the year and an insider will take his place, the company announced Friday.
PeaceHealth Buys ZoomCare For Undisclosed Amount
PeaceHealth, the Vancouver-based health care system with hospitals across the Northwest, announced on Tuesday that it is buying ZoomCare, a chain of neighborhood clinics that’s spread from Tigard to Seattle and Salem in just over a decade.
Car Accident Victim Sues PeaceHealth For ‘Secretly’ Overbilling
The suit claims the hospital chain should not have billed an Oregon man for nearly $15,000 to pay for treatment after an accident and then taken his money.
An Oregon man is suing PeaceHealth over the cost of medical treatment from a car accident.
Briefly: PeaceHealth Has New Board Chair
Karl Carrier is the first board chairman who is not an official within the Catholic Church.
The PeaceHealth Board of Directors has appointed a new chairman, Karl Carrier.
PeaceHealth Labor Units Push Back on Outsourcing and Longer Hours
Doctors, nurses and other staff picketed last week as part of an ongoing dispute with the Sacred Heart hospitals in Eugene and Springfield. Negotiations continue later this month.
PeaceHealth hospital staff in Eugene and Springfield are locked in a labor dispute with the administration over long hours, staff cuts and the use of contract providers.
PeaceHealth Loses Dr. Mark Adams, Community Chief Medical Officer
Meanwhile, Quest Diagnostics has already started offering jobs to phlebotomists and lab workers.
Another casualty has hit PeaceHealth, and no one’s talking publicly about what happened. Dr. Mark Adams, who joined the health system as community chief medical officer, is gone and didn’t even last a year.
Sale of PeaceHealth Labs Imminent
Providence Health is also expected to announce the sale of Pathology Associates Medical Lab shortly.
Despite efforts by PeaceHealth to discredit an earlier story on the sale of its clinical laboratories to Quest Diagnostics by telling employees it’s a rumor, The Lund Report has verified that the sale will, in fact, take place with a formal announcement anticipated next Wednesday, Feb. 15. Upper management has also scheduled an employee meeting that day.
Around 500 employees who work at PeaceHealth Labs in Springfield could potentially lose their jobs, with the majority of layoffs occurring before the end of April, according to confidential sources.
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