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“Lost Patients”

Excellence in Audio Storytelling

KUOW and The Seattle Times, 2025

Author(s): Sydney Brownstone, Will James and Esmy Jimenez

This investigation examines the treatment of serious mental illness through the lens of one city’s past, present and future. “Lost Patients” illuminates why the mental health system often loses vulnerable individuals in a damaging cycle between hospitals, jails and the streets.