Washington's top court will hear psychiatric boarding case next month

The Washington State Supreme Court has expedited the issue of psychiatric boarding and will hear oral arguments next month on the issue. It’s the practice of detaining psychiatric patients, even though a hospital can’t treat them. It can take days before a psychiatric bed to open up so patients can receive care. Some reports indicate that mentally ill people have been tied down to hospital beds when medical staff couldn’t do anything else with them. The practice has been criticized, but the…