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August 15, 2014

State adding more beds for mentally ill

SEATTLE (AP) — State officials plan to add more psychiatric beds to start meeting a state Supreme Court ruling that prohibited the warehousing of mentally ill patients in emergency rooms.

The high court ruled earlier this month that the practice known as “psychiatric boarding” was unlawful. The state estimates that 200 people are being cared for in this way.


 
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