Center Square WA: WA facility that treats drug-addicted newborns at risk of closure due to budget cuts

The Center Square Washington covered funding cuts at the Pediatric Interim Care Center (PICC) in Kent, which forced them to stop accepting new patients after 35 years. From the story:

Since 1990, PICC has taken care of newborns born to mothers with substance use disorders. Up until this year, about half of PICC’s funding came from the state. This year, majority-party Democrats scrapped all funding, but Republicans managed to claw back $100,000 in the final budget.

“It was only $100,000 in the budget, and we knew long term that was going to be a real challenge, but it still gave us room to operate. But then even that got a veto,” PICC Development Director Elaine Purchase told The Center Square on Monday.

Read the full article at the Center Square Washington.

Photo: Center Square, courtesy of PICC.