LAKEWOOD — Behind tall brick walls and secure windows, hundreds of patients at Washington state’s largest psychiatric ... mother spent two years at Western State Hospital and suffered dozens ...

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

It's not unusual to hear patients screaming and crying at Western State Hospital, workers say. But lately, they say it's been worse than normal at the massive psychiatric facility just south of ...

OLYMPIA — The state’s largest psychiatric hospital quietly withdrew from a national accreditation program three months ago. Western State Hospital voluntarily withdrew from accreditation by ...

"We are a hospital, too," said social worker Maria Claudio, who works at Western State. It is the state's largest psychiatric hospital with over 800 beds. According to the union, about 25 percent ...

Before a decadelong stint as a mental-health nurse therapist at Olympia’s Providence St. Peter Hospital, Strange first set foot in Western State for a training session in the late 1970s.

Jay Inslee (rear) announced she would become chief executive of Western State Hospital ... had been on the wait list for the state's largest psychiatric hospital, she must report to jail on ...

Here's how limited operations there could affect a major nonprofit psychiatric hospital in King County. © 2025 American City Business Journals. All rights reserved ...

A judge has ordered the state agency that operates Washington's largest psychiatric hospital ... That same Western State Hospital patient grabbed Kaitlyn Tritt's hair with both hands and wouldn ...

Western State has over 800 beds for patients who are involuntarily committed because of psychiatric disorders and criminal defendants whose competency is in question. The hospital lost $53 million ...

The Western State Hospital patient was at a Pierce ... The patient still had a fever when returned to the psychiatric hospital on Sunday, so he went back to the medical center and tested positive ...