Stand Up Federal Way hosts meeting about youth psychiatric facility

Child’s death follows closure of Spokane youth psychiatric center

A 12-year-old girl died by suicide after workers say she was left unsupervised at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center, where she was waiting for a long-term psychiatric placement.  Sarah June Niyimbona, who had been receiving intermittent psychiatric care for self-harm and suicide attempts at the hospital over eight months, slipped out of her room without triggering the alarm and left the pediatric floor alone around 5:30 p.m. on April 13, ac…

Stand Up Federal Way hosts meeting about youth psychiatric facility

The community Q-and-A was a response to a city council decision process that public commentors and even members of the council called “rushed.”