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Psychiatric hospital to move patients out to relieve staff

by Associated Press
| April 3, 2020 12:27 PM

SEATTLE (AP) — State mental health officials plan to release as many as 60 patients from Washington's largest psychiatric hospital in order to reduce some of the stress that the new coronavirus has placed on staff at the 850-bed facility, officials said Friday.

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