Sean Murphy was an executive at Western State Hospital in Washington from June 2016 to November 2018, then gained ...

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 ...

Despite “significant strides” at Western State Hospital, Washington state's largest psychiatric hospital lost its federal certification and $53 million in federal funds Monday after failing to achieve ...

Early Monday morning, Jan. 5, a person found dead at a construction site at Western State Hospital was identified by the Department of Social and Health Services as a patient who had been reported ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...