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Seattle’s upcoming mental health crisis center on Capitol Hill will be run by the same provider running a center in Kirkland, King County announced Thursday.

The county named the Capitol Hill center’s operator as Connections Health Solutions, an Arizona-based behavioral health company that expanded to Washington last year when it opened the Kirkland center. That center has served nearly 4,000 patients since it opened in August 2024. In February, King County officially designated it as the f

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