State to Fight Order Sending Western State CEO to Jail
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — State officials say they will ask a judge to block a contempt ruling that ordered the new CEO of the state's largest psychiatric hospital to admit a patient or go to jail.
Gov. Jay Inslee's spokeswoman Jaime Smith says the state Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) is preparing to ask a judge to stay Friday's order that Western State CEO Cheryl Strange report to ja