As your health partner, EvergreenHealth wants to ensure you have the resources and support you need to make the best choice for your Medicare coverage. That's why we offer a free consultation service with licensed insurance advisors that can help you learn about your options, including Medicare Advantage, Medicare, Medicare Supplement and Prescription Drug plans.
EvergreenHealth has partnered with American Senior Resources to provide a free Medicare insurance helpline that makes licensed insurance advisors available to help you:
The helpline is provided to Medicare beneficiaries at no cost and with no obligation.
Schedule your consultation at the most convenient time for you.
Additionally, American Senior Resources are hosting in-person Medicare 101 Workshops nearly once a month in one of two locations on our Kirkland campus:
Find a convenient day and time for you:
| Wednesday, February 11, 2026 | 10:00 a.m. | Red Auditorium |
| Wednesday, March 11, 2026 | 2:00 p.m. | Red Auditorium |
| Wednesday, April 8, 2026 | 10:00 a.m. | Red Auditorium |
| Wednesday, May 13, 2026 | 2:00 p.m. | Red Auditorium |
| Wednesday, June 10, 2026 | 10:00 a.m. | Red Auditorium |
| Wednesday, July 8, 2026 | 2:00 p.m. | Red Auditorium |
| Wednesday, August 12, 2026 | 10:00 a.m. | Red Auditorium |
| Wednesday, September 9, 2026 | 2:00 p.m. | Red Auditorium |
| Wednesday, October 14, 2026 | 10:00 a.m. | Red Auditorium |
| Wednesday, November 11, 2026 | 2:00 p.m. | Red Auditorium |
| Wednesday, December 2, 2026 | 10:00 a.m. | Red Auditorium |
You may also click here to sign up for online workshops.
These educational workshops are walk-in events with no registration required.
Another option when choosing a Medicare plan is a Medicare Advantage plan. A Medicare Advantage plan gives you hospital and doctor coverage as well as additional benefits like prescription coverage, dental, vision, preventative health screenings and more.
EvergreenHealth is partnering with the following Medicare Advantage plans in 2026:
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| City of Redmond Neighborhoods, February 2026 |
| Source | Best For |
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| Redmond Neighborhood Blog | Deep-dive civic analysis and critical community advocacy |
| Experience Redmond | Tourism, events, and highlighting local businesses |
| City of Redmond News | Official government announcements and public meeting notices |
| Move Redmond | News specifically about transit, biking, and urban walkability |
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| EvergreenHealth community-owned hospital |
Dr. Etorre Palazzo is Evergreen's CEO. Here's a short clip of Etoree (1.5 min) explaining Evergreen's attributes and mission in our community. He's done much to enlarge their capacity of services, including mental health treatment in primary care clinics and emergency departments.
My daughter was born at Evergreen Health 33 years ago.
-- Bob Yoder, 2/20/2026, updated: 3/34/2026
REDMOND, Wash. — Bellwether Housing today celebrated the groundbreaking of Prisma, a 328-home mixed-use affordable housing community located directly across from the Overlake Village light rail station in Redmond.
Thirty-three residential units will be set aside for people living with disabilities.
The City of Redmond will own and operate a small business and city services center with a walk-up service counter and rotating public safety and human services support programming.
The Wayfinder Hub, led by the Friends of the Village Collective, will feature a commercial kitchen, media lab, and culturally relevant support services to incubate small businesses and spark community-driven innovation.
When complete in 2028, Prisma will provide 328 affordable apartment homes for individuals and families earning between 30% and 80% of Area Median Income, including a significant number of family-sized units. Resident services will be led by Hopelink.
-- Bellwerther Housing, 2/19/2025
December 17, 2025 Exceptional Increases
"The City of Redmond vision of housing individuals that are unhoused is core to our mission. Carol has shown remarkable leadership in putting the City at the forefront of affordable housing efforts. Because of her extraordinary efforts, I am requesting Carol Helland receive a 5% lump sum exceptional merit increase. Carol has demonstrated diligence in supporting affordable housing in Redmond. She has acted as Redmond’s voice on the ARCH Board, worked with Kenmore and Plymouth Housing to transfer the permanent supportive housing project to Redmond, worked with neighboring developments to deal with access issues, worked with Council to transfer land to Plymouth and stood strong in the face of much criticism outside interests. Her commitment to service is evidenced by her openness to engage stakeholders in housing policy and processes while at the same time overseeing planning and community development within the City. For all of the above reasons and many others, Carol should be rewarded with a small token of the City’s appreciation for her remarkable commitment to serve the Redmond community and specifically for her efforts to further Redmond’s housing goals." - by Melissa Files, COO
"The Executive Department is reorganizing and expanding the management capabilities due to growth in the department. Specifically the department will take on three new divisions - City Attorney, Emergency Management, and Grant Management as well as the federal lobbyist contract. Currently there are only two managers in the department, the COO and the Deputy Director. Lisa will be promoted into a new "assistant COO" position to allow the department to have a COO, assistant COO and deputy director. Until the position goes through the compensation study for Exec and Deputy Director positions the title of the position is unknown at this point, nor is the salary set. Once the salary study is done another adjustment to Lisa's salary may be necessary"
-- Source: Public Record Request, 2026
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| Filthy stormwater treatment pond at All Wood Recycling 60 feet from salmon-bearing Evans Creek. B. Yoder/2006 |
I’d like to discuss a critical land use issue that affects Redmond's drinking water aquifer, and may cause PFAS contamination in Wells 1 and 2. PFAS is a man-made toxic chemical that never breaks down. It once was used to manufacture firefighting foam.
Last week, I testified before City Council about PFOS levels exceeding EPA's 4 ppt standard in these wells. Tonight, I want to focus on the land use aspect of this problem—specifically, the Evans Creek Relocation Project and the DTG Recycle site, formerly All Wood Recycling.
The DTG site sits within Redmond’s Critical Aquifer Recharge Area I (where groundwater contamination can reach municipal supply wells in under five years. In August 2013, a massive fire at All Wood Recycling required multi-day firefighting efforts. (See here, here, here, and here.) A former Redmond Natural Resources Manager informed the City Council that firefighting foam was used to extinguish that blaze and that about 1900 fish in Evans Creek were killed. *
The concern is straightforward: the foam likely contained PFAS, and those "forever chemicals" may have infiltrated Redmond’s aquifer. Bob Yoder's research suggests additional historic contamination sources at this industrial site—oil spills into Evans Creek, failing detention ponds, and septic systems that may have channeled PFAS-contaminated water underground.
Here's the land use policy problem: the Evans Creek Relocation Project will disturb soil on the DTG property. When the Department of Ecology sampled soil there in 2022, they did not test for PFAS. This is a significant gap in the environmental review process, especially given the site's MTCA contaminated cleanup status and location in Redmond’s CARA I (see the image below).
Since the Planning Commission advises the Mayor and City Council on land use policies, I urge you to recommend that the City require PFAS testing at the DTG site before any ground disturbance occurs. Identifying and remediating contamination sources is essential to prevent ongoing pollution of Redmond's drinking water.
With a 2029 EPA compliance deadline and costs for treatment of Wells 1 & 2 potentially in the tens of millions, Redmond cannot afford to overlook potential contamination sources in its CARAs. Sound land use policy demands testing before digging.
I ask that you advise Council to strengthen Redmond’s critical area protections by requiring PFAS assessment before approving projects in CARA zones, particularly on properties with known environmental violations or firefighting foam use.
* See the archived video of the Aug. 27, 2013, City Council Study Session beginning at 1:30:12. The comments about the fish kill and the firefighting foam use begin at 1:31:47.
-- David Morton, PhD, 2/11/2026
