Article: RESIDENTS IN `IMMINENT JEOPARDY'; HOME CLOSED PATIENTS LEFT UNSUPERVISED, AMONG OTHER VIOLATIONS.(News)

State welfare officials suspended the license of a Seattle boarding home near Providence Hospital after inspectors found conditions that put its nine elderly residents ``in imminent jeopardy.''

The Golden Heart Board Home on East Jefferson Street has operated for at least a decade. Visits by inspectors two weeks ago prompted the state Department of Social and Health Services to take the harshest action it could against a state-licensed facility after 15 alleged violations of regulations were found. At least three were repeat violations, state records show.

Among other things, inspectors contended that the home's residents, some with mental-health ...

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