On Wednesday, representatives from the Seattle Children’s nurse conference committee met with hospital leadership over growing concerns with the Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Unit.
Even though the state has injected more funding to add additional long-term beds, providers say they’re struggling even to keep their existing beds online because they can’t retain or hire enough staff.
SEATTLE (AP) On the website for Tamarack Center, big bold letters read “DOES IT WORK?” “We answer that question with an enthusiastic ‘Yes’,” the center says of its offerings: a children’s residential program in Spokane, where kids with serious mental health conditions live and receive intensive psychiatric treatment for months at a time.