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 ...

A $250 million-a-year state program serving about 11,700 developmentally disabled Washingtonians is so poorly run that it jeopardizes the health and welfare of its clients and violates federal law, a ...

A coalition of 22 counties, including King, Pierce and Snohomish, have filed a lawsuit against the Washington Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) over the department’s decision to stop ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (KOMO) — The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services was ordered by a federal judge to pay $100 million in fines for not providing sufficient mental health services to ...

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 ...

Jun. 18—The Washington state Department of Social and Health Services' (DSHS) Chehalis Community Services Office is relocating from Northeast Hampe Way in Chehalis to 1247 Harrison Ave., Centralia, on ...