Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 18—The Washington state Department of Social and Health Services' (DSHS) Chehalis Community Services Office is relocating ...

In an attempt to save money, Washington state has been illegally denying needed services to two dozen developmentally disabled residents for more than two years, according to a recently completed ...

PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — Prosecutors from 22 Washington state counties have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) over the agency’s public policy decision to stop ...

Under fire for failure to protect vulnerable adults, the Washington Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) demoted a top administrator who oversees enforcement of a rapidly expanding ...

The state of Washington’s largest department is tasked with caring for the state’s most vulnerable residents — abused children, foster kids, mentally handicapped adults. But time and again, it has ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. – Scammers are targeting people by impersonating representatives from the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) in phone calls. These scammers request sensitive information ...

The Seattle Times reports as many as 550 people living with disabilities in Washington state may have been deprived of some services they were entitled to for decades. The head of the Department of ...

A lack of mental health beds and services for criminals who were found incompetent to stand trial is one of the main reasons Seattle keeps seeing violent people get out of jail, according to King ...

SEATTLE — Alexander Jay is accused of multiple violent random attacks on women in Seattle and during a hearing in King County Superior Court last month he was found incompetent to stand trial. But the ...

Plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit A.B/Trueblood v. DSHS filed a motion last night in U.S. District Court seeking a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO). The TRO would prevent the Department of ...

PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — Prosecutors from 22 Washington state counties have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) over the agency’s public policy decision to stop ...