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Amid Statewide Mental Health Care Crisis, UW Looks to Shutter Psychiatric Unit

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“We’re worried, we’re depressed,” says a nurse in the unit.by Heidi GrooverUniversity of Washington Medicine may close 10 psychiatric beds at the UW Medical Center David_Johnson/getty
When the American College of Emergency Physicians graded every state back in 2014, it gave Washington a D+. Among our state’s worst marks: psychiatric beds. Washington has just 8.3 beds for every 100,000 people, worse than all but two other states.Lawmakers have wrung their hands about

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