Tacoma, WA Western State Hospital The opening of Western State Hospital in 1871 pre-dates the founding of Sloan Valve Company by about three decades. But Western State, which is the largest mental health hospital west of the Mississippi River, now relies on Sloan plumbing solutions in most of the 42 buildings on its Tacoma, Washington, campus. Tony Shetstine, plumber/steamfitter/pipefitter supervisor for the hospital, estimates that several hundred Sloan water closet and urinal flushometers are installed in the 37 wards serving adult and geriatric patients, as well as in publicrestrooms and areas reserved for hospital personnel. Sloan vitreous china toilet and urinal fixtures are in use in select restrooms. Because a “mishmash” of plumbing upgrades and renovations has occurred over the yea

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