New CEO Named for Troubled Western State Hospital In Wake of Patients Escape
Officials with the Washington State Department of Health have announced a new CEO, who will take over operations at the Western State Hospital in Lakewood WA. Most recently the facility has come under scrutiny after two inmates escaped last week through a window, one of them considered a dangerous person who had committed a grisly murder in 2014. Anthony Garver had been found incompetent to stand