As a psychiatric social worker at Washington’s Western State Hospital, Maria Claudio’s job is to care for some of the most complex mental health patients in the state. Washington's largest ...

Western Washington University would get access-control security ... in both the House and Senate budgets $282 million for Western State Hospital’s new forensic hospital in both the House and Senate ...

Federal Medicaid cuts under consideration would have dire financial impacts for state hospitals, including those in the West ...

Western Washington has some of the safest hospitals ... 1 received a D ranking and 25 earned a C ranking. No Washington state hospital received an F grade. “Despite improvements seen in this ...

Governor Bob Ferguson has proposed $4 billion in budget cuts to address Washington's significant deficit, including $90 million from closing unused wards at Western State Hospital in Lakewood.

He then was committed indefinitely to Western State Hospital, records show. Antonio Ray Perez, 32, is accused in the April 2022 strangling death of his grandfather, 80-year-old Raymond Leroy Plattner.