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Evergreen Health CEO outlines quality rankings, financial pressures and plans to expand outpatient behavioral health
Summary
Evergreen Health’s CEO presented hospital quality awards, recent financial trends, staffing changes, and plans to embed behavioral health in primary‑care clinics, and the presentation briefly touched on a levy lid lift before the city attorney advised caution about discussing pending ballot measures.
Evergreen Health CEO Dr. Ettore Palazzo gave the Kenmore City Council an annual state‑of‑healthcare update, highlighting quality recognitions, staffing and traveler reductions, operating losses in recent years, and plans to expand outpatient behavioral‑health services in primary‑care clinics.
Palazzo said Evergreen Health has maintained high quality scores across national metrics and has reduced reliance on agency "traveler" staff significantly since the pandemic. "Our traveler percentage has been cut down by 75%," he told the council, and he said rolling 12‑month turnover has…
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