The current levy for EvergreenHealth’s public hospital district is $0.14 per $1,000 of estimated home value, based on 2023 data. This is the first time EvergreenHealth has requested a levy lid lift in its more than 50-year history.
When the levy was first passed in 1970, it was set at $0.75 per $1,000. Over time, as property values increased, the levy rate was reduced in accordance with district regulations. Proposition 1 proposes to increase the levy $0.36, bringing the total, if passed, to $0.50 per $1,000 of estimated home value. [Translates to $500 tax on $1,000,000 home.]
If passed, levy funding will help EvergreenHealth expand services and infrastructure, which means more access for more people. Those expanded services will also attract and retain providers and staff, increasing access and expanding key service lines to meet the community’s need, including:
- Expanded access to primary, urgent and specialty care, advanced diagnostics, and outpatient behavioral health
- Funding to recruit and retain additional providers to improve appointment availability and to increase capacity to meet current and future demand for services on the Eastside
- Upgrading facilities in preparation for projected population growth
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.
-- Commissioner Virgil Snyder
Chair, EvergreenHealth Board of Commissioners
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