{"id":300818,"date":"2026-10-06T13:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300818\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T13:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:16:10","slug":"er-doctors-of-virtua-our-lady-of-lourdes-hospital-are-leaving-over-a-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300818\/","title":{"rendered":"ER doctors of Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital are leaving over a new contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning, South Jersey<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Nearly two dozen employees of Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital\u2019s emergency department are leaving because of a new contract<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Plus, Gov. Mikie Sherrill accepted Mark Cuban\u2019s offer to find solutions to rising insurance costs<\/a>, and more news of the day.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Taylor Allen (southjersey@inquirer.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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After 41 years as an emergency room doctor at Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes in Camden, Al Sacchetti\u2019s final day was last week. <\/p>\n

His patients, colleagues, and family celebrated with confetti, signs, and some tears after his last shift. <\/p>\n

But his departure wasn\u2019t by choice. <\/p>\n

He is one of more than 20 people \u2014 the majority of his emergency department team \u2014 who are exiting the hospital after Virtua Health switched staffing providers.<\/p>\n

Sacchetti and two other ER leaders said they were not offered contracts with the new provider but were offered positions at other Virtua hospitals that they declined. Other employees received offers to stay if they were willing to take a pay cut, according to some staff. <\/p>\n

The Inquirer\u2019s Sarah Nicell spoke to ER physicians who weren\u2019t offered contracts, physician assistants and doctors who refused the new contract, current employees, patients, and more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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