Inside Western State Mental Hospital
That plan released tuesday calls for the state to increase mental health spending by 675.
Inside western state mental hospital. Western state hospital virginia history. So far 34 people at western state hospital have tested. A new 500 bed mental hospital to replace western state. The address is located on the map tab above.
In this april 22 2020 photo a sign at western state hospital in lakewood wash directs visitors and non hospital employees to check in at another building where health screening is done. Kiro 7 news recommended. Social distancing in a psychiatric facility is easier said than done. Washington state must now assume costs covered by the loss of 53 million in annual federal funding for western state hospital which is washington s largest psychiatric facility.
Wsh is located in the city of lakewood washington which is seven miles south of tacoma. A new 500 bed state mental hospital. Jay inslee is taking. Employees share concerns about flooding inside state hospital duration.
Take a look inside western state hospital in lakewood wa. The ruins are located in fort steilacoom county park in lakewood. I waited until dark to go in after leaving my car outside of the park which closes at night. It was pretty easy getting in.
Western state hospital outside tacoma washington was the first. Western state hospital wsh is one of the largest inpatient psychiatric hospitals west of the mississippi with more than 800 beds and 2 500 employees. Forced to work in filth. How to get to the old western state hospital.
Dec 11 2018 at 1 07 pm northwest news network. Western state mental hospital. The hospital catered to the insane and stories from the high security wards of beatings and crazed outbreaks are plentiful. The ruins of the old mental hospital are inside fort steilacoom county park in lakewood.
A new 500 bed mental hospital to replace western state. Employees at the facility the state s largest psychiatric hospital say that problems with testing for the coronavirus likely produced inaccurate. Wsh is one of two state owned psychiatric hospitals for adults in the state of washington. Pre design planning for the new hospital is included in inslee s proposed budget for mental health over the next two years.
Inside inslee s proposed budget.