This is one of two taxpayer-funded mental health operations in the works for Seattle. The other is a proposed behavioral health center at Harborview Medical Center.
State Rep. Frank Chopp, D-Seattle, introduced House Bill 1593 in 2019 to provide the money for the new psychiatric hospital. It will be run by the University of Washington School of Medicine, which Chopp believes has a better reputation than the two state mental hospitals. But, more than that, the waiting list of people who need the kind of care available at an in-patient facility has been growing.
“We really need it,” Chopp said.
The UW operates the only medical school psychiatric department in the
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