King County "Transparency Assessor Tool"

Transparency Assessor Tool: https://localscape.property/#kingcountyassessor/My-Property

The King County Assessor developed an invaluable Localscape "transparency assessor tool" to calculate individual 2025 taxes and levy rates based on your home's appraised value.  Current and past taxes, area median household income, area sales, and other useful data are resourced.   

In 1981, I bought my 1,800 sf home on Education Hill for $92,000.  According to the calculator, the 2023 average sales price in my area is $999,375.  

My total property taxes in 2023 were $8961.80 (up $1,630 from 2022.)  The calculator showed 2024 King County levy rates and dollar amounts on my property, as follows: 

• Local School 29.30%  - $2475.48
• City 11.04% - $849.3
• County 10.9% - $1311.16
• Library 3.57% - $282.98
• EMS 2.85% - $222.24
• Hospital 2.57% - $151.47
• Transit 2.12% - $160.53
• Port 1.03% - $102.61
• Flood .92% - $69.26
• STATE Taxes $2467.16 (schools, fire, roads, parks & recreation) 

Total 2026 taxes may increase from 2025 owing to voter approved levies, bonds and the 1%/year allowable increase.  

In 2024 voters passed a 14 cents /$1000 property tax for the King County Mental Health Crisis Centers; and King County's homeless hotel.  LWSD passed a  6-year $676.9 million construction levy refresh measure. EvergreenHealth District No. 2 is proposing a 50 cents/$1000 levy lid-lift August 2025; and King County is proposing a 23 cents/$1000 parks, trails & open space 6-year levy refresh August 2025.

To check out the tax data on your home:  

https://localscape.property/#kingcountyassessor/My-Property

-- Bob Yoder, 7/25/2025

EvergreenHealth CEO Honors King County Paramedics

Ettore Palazzo, MD, FACPEttore Palazzo, MD, FACP • 1st1stChief Executive OfficerChief Executive Officer
3 days ago • Edited • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn

It was an honor to be present today for the graduation ceremony of Class 51 of the King County Medic One Paramedic Training Program. These exceptional individuals, along with those who came before them and those who will follow, carry forward a proud tradition of delivering some of the highest quality prehospital emergency care anywhere in the nation. Their dedication, skill, and service are a true credit to our community.

-- CEO Ettore Palazzo, EvergreenHealth

EvergreenHealth CEO Reaches Out To Bothell And Woodinville

Bothell City Council 

Ettore Palazzo, MD, FACPEttore Palazzo, MD, FACP 1stChief Executive OfficerChief Executive Officer4 days ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn

EvergreenHealth is honored to serve so many vibrant and engaged communities across the Eastside. Thank you to the City of Bothell and the City of Woodinville, Washington for the opportunity to share important updates on the ever-evolving healthcare landscape, and how EvergreenHealth is working to preserve and strengthen essential services for the residents of our hospital district.

-- Linked In

Vote "yes" On Evergreenhealth Proposition 1, Endorsements

EvergreenHealth, Our Independent Community-Owned Hospital

Submitted by: Barb Jensen, Josh Pratt, Kevin Hanson

As a nurse, emergency department physician and firefighter/EMT, we’ve witnessed the health care needs of our communities growing as the region has. We know the Puget Sound area has a critical shortage of available hospital beds and wait times for primary and specialty care appointments can be long. We’ve seen a growing number of healthcare mergers leading to consolidated services and longer travel times for many services.

Proposition 1 will address these challenges and renew support for EvergreenHealth - our independent, community-owned public hospital - to meet the needs of the Eastside on the Eastside.

Vote yes to reduce wait times and expand access. Prop 1 means more physicians and clinical staff and expanded access to primary, emergency, and specialty care including maternity services and behavioral healthcare.

Vote yes to maintain high quality. EvergreenHealth is nationally recognized for its quality of care receiving five stars from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service and ranked a top-50 hospital nationally by Healthgrades. Prop. 1 allows investments to maintain this high quality.

Vote yes to keep quality care close to home and protect local decision-making.  Prop 1 ensures EvergreenHealth stays independent, avoiding the need to merge with a larger organization where services and staff will be consolidated and local residents will likely have to travel to Seattle or other urban centers for many services.

When our families need medical help – in an emergency, for regular check-ups or specialized care – we want to access high-quality healthcare close to home. Join physicians, nurses and emergency responders in voting yes on EvergreenHealth’s Prop. 1 to expand access here on the Eastside and protect our independent, locally-controlled community healthcare.

-- Submitted by: Barb Jensen, Josh Pratt, Kevin Hanson,              www.yesevergreenhealth.com

EvergreenHeath CEO Shares Update With IMAN Co-Founder

EvergreenHealth CEO Ettore Palazzo (left) with IMAN President Mohamed Khaki

"It was an honor to be invited to the IMAN Center of Kirkland to share an update on the Eastside’s community-owned hospital system. At EvergreenHealth, we view every opportunity to connect with the community we serve as a true gift. A special thank you to Mohamed Jawad Khaki—Co-Founder, President, and Director of the IMAN Center—for extending the invitation and facilitating such a meaningful and engaging evening together."

-- CEO Ettore Palazzo    

CEO Palazzo Updates Kirkland Alliance Of Neighborhoods

 

I'm grateful to the Kirkland Alliance of Thirteen Neighborhoods (KAN) for the opportunity to provide an update on King County Public Hospital District #2 / EvergreenHealth, including information about our upcoming levy lid lift on the August 2025 ballot. As a Kirkland resident for over two decades, it’s an honor to live and work in such a special city!

-- Ettore Palazzo, MD

    EvergreenHealth CEO

    6/19/2025

EvergreenHealth Receives Environmenal Sustainablily Award

There are many ways hospital systems can impact the health of our communities including minimizing our environmental impact. Congratulations to David Reed and the entire Environmental Services Team at EvergreenHealth for once again earning Practice Greenhealth's Partner for Change Award. Your continued leadership in sustainability helps create a healthier environment for everyone we serve.

-- Ettore Palazzo, CEO EvergreenHealth

One of EvergreenHealth’s core values is to provide high-quality health care while minimizing our environmental impact. The Greenhealth Partner for Change Award recognizes our ongoing dedication to improving our environmental performance and our efforts to integrate sustainability and resiliency into the operations and culture of our organization.

-- David Reed, EvergreenHealth Environmental Services Team

EvergreenHealth Proposition 1 Levy Lid Lift Measure

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 50 cents per $1,000 assessed home value. 

 

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

Updated 6/27: EvergreenHealth Levy Funds Community Programs

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

Five Years of COVID-19: Caring For the Future of Our Community

Five years ago on February 28, 2020, EvergreenHealth's Kirkland campus became the first hospital in the U.S. to respond to the first known cases of community spread of COVID-19. 

"Since then, we've continued to expand and improve access to care, implementing what we learned as an organization and as an industry during the COVID-19 pandemic—which will undoubtedly benefit us in meeting the needs of our growing community," said EvergreenHealth CEO Ettore Palazzo, MD, who was the hospital system's chief medical and quality officer at the outset of the pandemic.

EvergreenHealth's experience as one of the first hospitals to navigate the pandemic was featured extensively by media, including coverage in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, 60 Minutes, PBS Frontline, CNN, NPR and dozens of other publications and outlets.

-- EvergreenHealth.com

EvergreenHealth Public Hospital District No. 2

Your Care, Your Community

Ettore Palazzo, MD, FACP, the new CEO. 

EvergreenHealth Seeks First-Ever Levy Lid Lift

Our Community-Owned Hospital

EvergreenHealth Seeks First-Ever Levy Lid Lift to Expand Access to Care and Plan for Future Needs

 

Kirkland, Wash. – This August, voters in King County Public Hospital District #2 will be asked to consider Proposition 1, EvergreenHealth’s first-ever Levy Lid Lift request since the hospital opened in 1972. If approved, the measure would support enhanced access to care, expand services and help the public hospital district prepare for the future health care needs of its growing Eastside community.

 

Currently, district residents pay $0.14 per $1,000 of assessed home value toward the EvergreenHealth levy. If approved, the Levy Lid Lift would add $0.36, bringing the total to $0.50 per $1,000 of assessed value.  That translates into ~ $500 on a $1,000,000 home.  

 

“As the Eastside grows, so do the health care needs of our community,” said Ettore Palazzo, MD, Chief Executive Officer. “Proposition 1 would allow EvergreenHealth to invest in primary, urgent and specialty care, advanced diagnostics and outpatient behavioral health—ensuring more people have timely access to the care they need, closer to home.”

 

Why now?

EvergreenHealth has never asked to increase its levy funding—until now. When EvergreenHealth opened in 1972, it had 76 beds and served 22,000 residents. Today, it serves a population of more than 330,000 and has grown into a comprehensive health system offering nearly 400 beds, two Emergency Departments, eight Urgent Cares, 12 Primary Care practices, over 40 Specialty Care practices, Home Health and Hospice services, and a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

 

What Would the Levy Lid Lift Fund?

If approved, Proposition 1 would:

• Expand access to care by increasing capacity for primary, urgent, specialty, and outpatient behavioral health services
• Recruit and retain providers to improve appointment availability
• Invest in advanced diagnostic technology and infrastructure to meet current and future demand
• Support programs for seniors and youth, including wellness classes and behavioral health

 

“These investments are about ensuring that our hospital district can continue to meet the needs of our growing community—not just today, but well into the future,” said Chris Bredeson, Chief Operating and Strategy Officer.

 

Learn More

To learn more about the proposed levy lid lift, explore frequently asked questions, and access educational resources, visit: www.evergreenhealth.com.

 

Election Day is August 5. Register to vote by July 27.

 

 

About EvergreenHealth  

 

EvergreenHealth is a community-owned hospital system serving more than one million residents in King and Snohomish counties. Since 1972, EvergreenHealth has evolved beyond the hospital into a network of primary care practices, urgent care centers, specialty clinics, extensive home care and hospice services and 24/7 emergency care in Kirkland, Monroe and Redmond. As a public hospital district, EvergreenHealth actively provides equal access to high-quality, high-value care, partnering with local organizations to perform outreach and offer health education to address our community’s needs. The hospital system is recognized as one of Healthgrades America’s 50 Best™ Hospitals in clinical excellence and holds a 5-Star Overall Rating from the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS). Learn more at www.evergreenhealth.com.