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Psychiatric hospital to open wards to reduce violence

| January 30, 2020 8:35 AM

LAKEWOOD, Wash. (AP) — Western State Hospital, the state’s largest psychiatric facility, is set to open a pair of newly renovated psychiatric wards to try and reduce by half the violence coming from a handful of patients deemed most dangerous.

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