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ALAN BERNER / THE SEATTLE TIMES
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Monday, February 1, 2010

Fragile, pushed out and paying a price: State saves millions by relocating poorest patients

"I'll get a room and a TV," says Jeri Ringseth, right, as husband Gary visits her at a Tacoma hospital in April 2009. At this point, day 62 of her stay, she's been told she's moving to her third adult family home. Her previous home wouldn't take her back.