Lakewood police are searching for a patient who escaped from Washington’s largest psychiatric hospital, Western State, ...

Contract agencies are paying health care workers nearly double the state's hourly rate to address the ongoing understaffing ...

People may enter psychiatric treatment without much more than the clothes on their backs. They're often not provided with ...

Four Western State Hospital employees who recently received more than $2 million in damages from the state for its failure to prevent repeated gender-based attacks by a patient filed another ...

Multiple brand-new Washington behavioral health facilities haven't been able to fully open in recent months, despite millions invested in their construction.

Ward F3 within the Center for Forensic Services at Western State Hospital sits empty after the Department of Social and Health Services canceled plans to open it in favor of addressing hospital ...

Find the original story from The Seattle Times here. Angela King: This is not the first time Western State Hospital has made headlines like this. So, what's going on now? And how is this playing ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

One of the major issues to plague Western State hospital has been violent attacks on staff and patients. They surged last summer, but trended down in the first several months of 2019 ...

Western State Hospital nurse Eric Biscocho shows off the features of one of the hospital's brand–new safe rooms. "They just fixed this like about two, three days ago," he says. "They changed the ...