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| EvergreenHealth, Kirkland Your Community - Owned Hospital |
EvergreenHealth will continue to use levy funding to help support free and low-cost community education classes, programs, and events on a wide variety of everyday and specialized health and wellness topics, developed by experts and available to everyone in our community.
LEVY FUNDED PROGRAMS:
The Community Healthcare Access Team (CHAT) is probably EvergreenHealth's flagship levy-funded community service:
- If you have a loved one looking for quality long-term care CHAT will help you. Trust me, this is a great service. We were "left on our own" when my mother in California desperately needed a decent long-term home.
- CHAT also offers financial assistance, insurance coverage "navigators", and assistance for low-income and underinsured.
- CHAT partners with Hopelink for psycho-social asistance and transporting patients.
The EvergreenHealth levy invests in our youth and seniors:
- They provide four social workers at LWSD for help during a mental health crisis.
- The North Shore School District hires levy-funded mental health therapists to provide access to mental health providers. They held 2,961 visits in 2024.
- Levy provide access to "Palliative" support for you and family members facing serious illness; and Hospice care.
- There's off-site access to geriatric care for seniors with dementia and behavioral health problems.
EvergreenHealth offered access to 114 community-funded educational health classes in 2024, including the "Youth Suicide Emergency Kit."
If the levy lid lift passes, outpatient behavioral services will be accessed in primary care clinics and psychiatric services accessed in EvergreenHealth's two Emergency Departments.
-- Bob Yoder, 6/15,2025, updated 6/27/2025
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