Eugene’s mayor is calling on Oregon’s governor and the state health agency to keep her city’s sole hospital in operation.
At a rally Monday outside the PeaceHealth University District Medical Center, Lucy Vinis joined others condemning PeaceHealth’s plans to close the facility.
Vinis said “lives will be lost” if they don’t have a partner at the table to discuss safer and more sustainable alternatives.
“Since PeaceHealth won’t do that on their own, I call on Governor Kotek and the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), to force them to meet their obligations to provide healthcare to this community, and deny this closure,” she said, according to KLCC. Read more.
