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subsection within 30 days of granting such authorizations and 1 identify the reason and time frame for the extension. 2 (11) $4,994,000 of the general fund—state appropriation for 3 fiscal year 2024, $7,535,000 of the general fund—state appropriation 4 for fiscal year 2025, and $672,000 of the general fund—federal 5 appropriation are provided solely for the department to establish a 6 violence reduction team at western state hospital to improve patient 7 and staff safety at eastern and western state hospitals. A report 8 must be submitted by December 1, 2023, and December 1, 2024, which 9 includes a description of the violence reduction or safety strategy, 10 a profile of the types of patients being served, the staffing model 11 being used, and outcomes associated with each strategy. The outcomes 12 section should include tracking data on facility-wide metrics related 13 to patient and staff safety as well as individual outcomes related to 14 the patients served. 15 (12) $2,593,000 of the general fund—state appropriation for 16 fiscal year 2024 and $2,593,000 of the general fund—state 17 appropriation for fiscal year 2025 are provided solely for the 18 department to increase services to patients found not guilty by 19 reason of insanity under the Ross v. Lashway settlement agreement. 20 (13) Within the amounts provided in this subsection, the 21 department must develop and submit an annual state hospital 22 performance report for eastern and western state hospitals. Each 23 measure included in the performance report must include baseline 24 performance data, agency performance targets, and performance for the 25 most recent fiscal year. The performance report must include a one 26 page dashboard as well as charts for each fiscal year and quality of 27 care measure broken out by hospital and including but not limited to: 28 (a) Monthly FTE expenditures compared to allotments; (b) monthly 29 dollar expenditures compared to allotments; (c) monthly FTE 30 expenditures per thousand patient bed days; (d) monthly dollar 31 expenditures per thousand patient bed days; (e) percentage of FTE 32 expenditures for overtime; (f) average length of stay by category of 33 patient; (g) average monthly civil wait list; (h) average monthly 34 forensic wait list; (i) rate of staff assaults per thousand patient 35 bed days; (j) rate of patient assaults per thousand patient bed days; 36 (k) average number of days to release after a patient has been 37 determined to be clinically ready for discharge; and (l) average 38 monthly vacancy rates for key clinical positions. The department must 39 p. 158 ESSB 5187.SL