A patient from Lakewood, Wash.-based Western State Hospital — the largest psychiatric hospital in the state — was diagnosed with Legionnaires’, according to an Associated Press report relayed by The ...

As construction on the new $947 million Western State Hospital Facility continues in Lakewood, the state Department of Social and Health Services gave an update to the Lakewood City Council on April ...

The Seattle Times reports that Pierce County Superior Court Commissioner Craig Adams posed the option to Strange because a patient has been waiting months to be detained at the state psychiatric ...

Construction is ramping up at a new state psychiatric hospital as Washington works to meet continued demand for treatment of people accused of crimes. The state broke ground in October on the new ...

Court records show the state cut off 39-year-old Pavel Kolchick, who’d lived at Washington state-run psychiatric hospitals for 18 years, from recommended trauma therapy three months before he died in ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- In a place where change can come slowly, Senator Mark Miloscia has been laser-focused on immediate fixes for the troubled mental hospital, Western State. "If Western State Hospital ...

Concerns over safety and threats from regulators to slash federal funding mean one of the state's two state-run psychiatric hospitals will discontinue its expansion efforts. Western State Hospital — ...

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A patient who had been reported missing from Western State Hospital was found dead early Monday at a construction site on the hospital’s grounds, according to the Washington State Department of Social ...