neglect

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OLYMPIA (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a bill that seeks to better protect vulnerable adults against financial exploitation and neglect. The measure, signed Wednesday, creates a new crime of theft involving a vulnerable adult — any person 18 years or older who is clearly mentally or physically unable to care for himself or herself or suffers from a cognitive impairment...

SEATTLE (AP) — State and federal health regulators and a police department have launched an investigation at Washington state's largest psychiatric hospital after unauthorized photos of a patient were found on an employee's personal phone...