What Are Your Choices? Currently, residents throughout the Eugene-Springfield community enjoy the benefits of two hospitals, providing a wide range of options in high quality, accessible health care.  On the map shown here, you can see that almost all the community's residents are within five miles of one or both of the area's two existing hospitals, with PeaceHealth's Hilyard facility (orange) serving west and south Eugene, and McKenzie-Willamette (green) serving east Springfield. But now, our health care options are at risk.  Both hospitals are looking to modernize and expand, and thus the community faces decisions that will greatly impact the availability and cost of health care services for many decades. The map clearly illustrates the effects that would result if PeaceHealth is successful in its efforts to locate its new campus in the Gateway area.  Since the 5-mile circle around the proposed Gateway site (blue) covers almost the exact same residences as the 5-mile circle around the existing McKenzie-Willamette hospital location, and since so much of McKenzie-Willamette's business relies on emergency intakes (which, in turn, depend on close proximity to patients in need), the map clearly illustrates that McKenzie-Willamette would not be able to survive at its current location once PeaceHealth opens its doors at the Gateway site. Further, PeaceHealth's Gateway campus would not easily serve many in west and south Eugene.  Of course, PeaceHealth would be reluctant to give up those patients to McKenzie-Willamette or an "outsider" who might choose to locate in central Eugene, so, at first, PeaceHealth would attempt to keep its Hilyard facility functioning - at least until McKenzie-Willamette is forced out of business and the PeaceHealth monopoly is established.  But at that point, it would make little economic sense for PeaceHealth to continue operating two facilities, and all services would likely be transferred to the Gateway campus.  Thus, the community would be left with no real health care choices.