by Lynnanne Nguyen, KOMO News Reporter TOPICS: WASHINGTON — Demolition has begun at Western State Hospital to make way for a new forensic hospital to help address the state’s backlog of ...

At Western State Hospital in Lakewood, the state’s largest and most crowded psychiatric hospital, referrals to forensic wards have shot up 36 percent when comparing the first five months of 2017 ...

Hospital officials ... intends to move civil patients into community facilities and reserve Western State mostly for forensic patients. This will allow it to focus on those with the highest ...

Esmy Jimenez: Well, for those that don't know, Western State Hospital is this really large psychiatric hospital — the largest in the state. It serves two kinds of people: forensic patients ...

Mental health treatment has evolved greatly since Western State Hospital opened over 100 years ago in Lakewood, especially in the last two decades. Treatment for civilly committed patients is ...

Architecture firm HOK has shared its newest designs for a planned forensic mental health care facility at Western State Hospital. This 350-bed forensic psychiatric hospital will be on 31.63 acres ...

Western State Hospital has special forensic wards for these patients. When the AP asked how often they’ve transferred NGRI patients out of the forensic wards, Stowe said: “There have been no ...

Jilma Meneses at a groundbreaking ceremony for the Western State Hospital New Forensic Hospital. Other notable guest speakers included Mark Thompson, chief executive officer of the Gage Center of ...

Western State’s administrators announced the construction of a drab, 350-bed forensic unit on the hospital grounds, built in a brutalist style that contrasts with the facility’s regal brick exteriors.

A 150-year-old horticulture program at Western State Hospital is losing its greenhouse ... because it stands in the way of a new forensic hospital. When legislation is signed by Gov.