News from Olympia: House passes Speaker Chopp bill that plans for a UW Behavioral Health Campus

UW State Relations | March 14, 2019


The House unanimously passed legislation (HB 1593) to launch plans to establish a new behavioral health innovation and integration campus with the UW Medicine. The proposal plans for a new teaching facility with a capacity for 150 patients and the ability to train current and future health care providers to address the urgent need for mental health and substance abuse treatment across the state.