Letter to Editor | Thanks to community for offering space to counsel Medicare clients

||| FROM PEGI GROUNDWATER for SHIBA |||

The SHIBA volunteers on Orcas Island would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Orcas Island Family Resource Center and the Orcas Island Library for their generosity in making space available for our volunteers to use to counsel Medicare clients.  The Senior Center provides space for our volunteers to use for counseling clients throughout the year and the Library made a meeting room available to us for our Open Enrollment walk-in enrollment events.

We love being a part of our close-knit community. During this year’s Open Enrollment, we were able to help more than 200 people on Orcas select the best Medicare insurance options to meet their needs. We could not have done this without the generous offers of space by the Senior Center and the Library and the help of our sponsor, the Inter Island Healthcare Foundation.

SHIBA (Statewide Health Insurance Beneficiary Advisors) is a service of the Washington state Office of the Insurance Commissioner. Our volunteers provide free, confidential assistance to Medicare beneficiaries. We help enrollees with choosing the best plans during the Open Enrollment Period (October 15 to December 7 each year), and with a variety of other medical insurance related questions for all ages during the rest of the year.

See you next year,
Your Orcas SHIBA volunteers, Pegi Groundwater, Michael Moss and Kate Kimball