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LAKEWOOD, Wash. (AP) – Washington state’s largest psychiatric hospital is under a “critical safety situation.”
Inspectors discovered problems with the facility’s fire response system.
To ensure that Western State Hospital patients are safe, the state implemented a “fire watch” program that involves staff looking for “evidence of smoke and fire in all areas.”
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid threatened to cut millions of federal funds after a series of safety violations were discovered last year.
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