In 2019, the UW partnered with the state to reimagine and build a solution to Washington’s crisis in behavioral-health services. With $33.5 million provided by the Legislature, the UW is designing a behavioral-health teaching hospital at UW Medical Center–Northwest in Seattle’s Northgate neighborhood. The hospital will treat patients and train our state’s next generation of behavioral-health workers. With additional appropriations from the state, construction is scheduled to begin in late 2021, with operations anticipated to begin by November 2023.