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Rosemary Torgesen’s last months

WEBDay 1. March 22, 2018. Rosemary Torgesen is admitted to Smokey Point on a court order after refusing to eat, drink and take medications for her schizophrenia. March 22, 2018. …

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Pictures of the Year 2020: More images than ever for a …

WEBDue to COVID-19 restrictions, this year’s Pictures of the Year presentation, featuring Seattle Times photographers’ most memorable photos — and the stories behind them — will be …

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Pandemic purgatory How the coronavirus fight is going …

WEBSix months since the first person in Washington — the first person in the nation — tested positive for the novel coronavirus, health officials are saying we’re “in …

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Public Crisis, Private Toll

WEBPublished August 25, 2019. On the first of Rosemary Torgesen’s 99 days as a patient at the Smokey Point Behavioral Hospital, her children felt the placement was especially …

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Public Crisis, Private Toll

WEBWhen patients or staff suffer serious, largely preventable harm, hospitals in Washington state are supposed to notify the Department of Health. Between 2016 and …

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WEBSource: Public Health - Seattle & King County. Data from July 22, 2020. Lauren Flannery / The Seattle Times

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PUBLIC CRISIS, PRIVATE TOLL

WEBYet one source of mental-health care has expanded rapidly: private psychiatric hospitals. State payments to five private psychiatric hospitals nearly tripled …

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Seattle, King County officials made lots of homelessness …

WEBPublished Jan. 29, 2022. It started during the pandemic. Grand promises, made with increasing frequency, to safely house and shelter homeless people amid the threat of …

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See how Seattle’s homelessness crisis stacks up

WEBSince the coronavirus first emerged in Seattle and King County, visible homelessness — encampments along greenbelts and sidewalks, RVs parked in …

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Coronavirus at the Life Care nursing home

WEBA 911 call is made from the nursing home that day for an 85-year-old woman in respiratory distress. According to a union representative, a Kirkland firefighter is exposed after …

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The lost patients of WA’s abandoned psychiatric hospital

WEBNorthern State Hospital took in tens of thousands of people like Lillian, most from the Seattle area. Today, there’s scant evidence these patients ever existed. But as …

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Not Invisible: Confronting a crisis of violence against Native women

WEBConfronting a crisis of violence against Native women. VIEW THE LATEST. Native American women have been targeted with high rates of violence, murder, rape …

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High volume, big dollars, rising tension

WEBPublished February 10, 2017. In its ambitious rise to become one of the largest hospital systems in the country, Providence Health & Services struck a deal in 2011 to claim a …

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At WA special education schools, years of abuse complaints and …

WEBAt Washington special education schools, years of abuse complaints and lack of academics. By Mike Reicher and Lulu Ramadan, The Seattle Times. Published …

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Inspection reports for private psychiatric hospitals in Washington

WEBDevelopment by Hilary Fung. Seattle Times staff. Published Dec. 28, 2019. In its investigation of private psychiatric hospitals, The Seattle Times obtained dozens of …

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First Foods: How Native people are preserving the natural …

WEBPublished July 10, 2022. Five or six generations ago, Native people of this region ate a complex diet that changed with the seasons. Called First Foods, these are the staples …

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Disappearing Daughters Mothers search for justice and embrace …

WEBNorma Laguna Cabral. Norma Ledezma Ortega is a lawyer and the founder of the organization Justicia para Nuestras Hijas, or “Justice for Our Daughters.”. In 2016, …

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Loaded with lead: How gun ranges poison workers and shooters

WEBBy Christine Willmsen and Lewis Kamb Oct. 20, 2014. More from the series. Part 1: Lead poisoning is a major threat at America’s shooting ranges, perpetuated by owners who’ve …

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