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 ...

Mark James, a convicted drug dealer and identity thief, was hired by Western State Hospital in 2017 to counsel mental patients one week after his arrest in Oregon on multiple felony charges. Three ...

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 ...

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 ...

OLYMPIA — Western State Hospital will lose $53 million in annual federal funding, after years of struggling to comply with inspection findings, the state Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS ...

During his campaign, Gov. Bob Ferguson promised to spend a week working at Western State Hospital to better understand the challenges facing the state’s largest psychiatric facility. Following a ...