Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) has fired the CEO of Western State Hospital, a Lakewood, Wash.-based psychiatatric facility, after two patients deemed “dangerous” escaped last week, according to The ...

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 ...

A patient who went missing from Western State Hospital in Steilacoom was found dead Monday morning at a nearby construction site. The patient failed to return after being granted court-ordered, ...

The state agency overseeing Western State Hospital will pay $2.3 million to resolve a lawsuit that accused officials of negligence after a psychiatric patient was strangled to death by his roommate.

The unacceptable state of mental health care in Washington is demonstrated by a single fact — Western State Hospital has not received funding from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid since ...

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 ...

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 ...