Becker's Healthcare January 24, 2025
Many beds at Seattle-based University of Washington Medicine’s new behavioral health facility are empty as the state grapples with who will represent patients committed to the facility, the Seattle Times reported Jan. 22.
In May, University of Washington Medicine opened a $244 million, 150-bed behavioral health facility in Seattle. The facility includes 75 long-term civil commitment beds.
In November, the facility stopped admitting patients to its civil commitment unit, the Seattle Times reported, because there were not enough defense attorneys to represent patients. Under state law, a judge must rule a patient is not able to meet their own needs or is a danger to themselves or others to be held in a civil commitment unit, according to...
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