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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LAKEWOOD, Wash. — 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 ...

House lawmakers advanced a proposal Thursday to provide additional police funding to the cities of Lakewood and Medical Lake ...

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 ...

While the Department of Social and Health Services and CMS work on a 13-month improvement plan for Lakewood, Wash.-based Western State Hospital, a new report outlines the numerous economic and quality ...

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 ...

The construction of the new $947 million Western State Hospital facility is charging ahead and on track for completion, officials announced on Nov. 6. Sean Murphy, deputy assistant secretary of the ...