Demolition has begun at Western State Hospital to make way for a new forensic hospital to help address the state’s backlog of patients waiting for a bed. The Washington State Department of ...
Police arrested a man Wednesday who is accused of injuring an employee in an attack last month at Western State Hospital in ...
As a psychiatric social worker at Washington’s Western State Hospital, Maria Claudio’s job is to care for some of the most complex mental health patients in the state. Washington's largest ...
Two men whose Pierce County murder cases were dismissed over mental-competency issues have been recharged after being released from a state psychiatric hospital. Both Kurt Otto Alan Youngers, 60, and ...
The story begins when Gov. Jay Inslee shut down much of Western State Hospital, Washington’s largest psychiatric facility, in 2018. He opted instead for a strategy where treatment was delivered ...
Ferguson proposed saving nearly $90 million by closing unused wards at Western State Hospital ... including Washington State Patrol troopers who patrol roads and staff working in prisons and ...