Washington’s Snohomish County Expands Mental Health Services

After years of cutbacks and closures of inpatient mental health programs in Snohomish County, there are plans to open new units in Everett, Smokey Point and Monroe. When all three are up and running, they will provide inpatient services for up to 189 people. Today the only adult in-patient psychiatric unit in Snohomish County is at Swedish/Edmonds, which can admit a mere 23 patients at any given time. An estimated 65 percent of adults who need in-patient psychiatric care have to leave the county to get it. Plans for the three in-patient psychiatric units partially fill . . .