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PeaceHealth is cutting 1% of its workforce including staff at Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield. It comes a couple of years after the closure of its emergency department and other services in Eugene's' University District.
PeaceHealth is cutting staff at Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield as part of layoffs across the nonprofit health organization, which operates a network of hospitals and clinics in Oregon, Washington, and Alaska.
In a statement sent to Lookout Eugene-Springfield, PeaceHealth spokesperson Jim Murez confirmed the organization is responding to industrywide challenges felt in hospitals across the state and nationwide:
“As always, we are adjusting operations and services to reflect changes in our communities and ensure we are being responsible to our healing Mission into the future. After much discernment, financial analysis and a thorough review of the healthcare market, we are making a 1% reduction in our workforce, including eliminating some caregiver roles and closing some open positions.”
Murez said in the statement that PeaceHealth was offering “comprehensive transitional support consistent with our policies and practices” to affected workers, adding that it is “working to match qualified caregivers with open clinical roles” throughout the organization.
Murez said he could not elaborate on how many positions were cut or in which department.
The Lund Report, an online health news site, reported that 1% of PeaceHealth’s workforce is about 162 people and added that the layoffs were confined to the organization’s facilities in Springfield and Vancouver. The Lund Report received a copy of a May 22 letter in which PeaceHealth executives announced the layoffs.
In 2023, PeaceHealth announced it would close its hospital and emergency department in Eugene, citing underuse. A year later, the Oregon Nurses Association released a survey of PeaceHealth patients, who reported long wait times amid a surge in demand at remaining facilities.
