LOUISIANA Community Mental Health Services Block Grant ...

This section includes a detailed listing of all community mental health facilities and state
psychiatric hospitals statewide as of August, 2010, including both the OMH Regional and
Local Governing Entity (LGE) facilities. In summary:
The community mental health programs include:
45 Community Mental Health Clinics (CMHCs), that are full service, full
time, licensed, fixed-site mental health programs. The regional CMHC is
the hub of service provision and administration and fiscal services of the
region
27 Outreach locations that are satellites providing services off-site, parttime,
under the license of a clinic, and through the providers of that program
Note: This listing does not include the additional community services that are
provided by each region under professional and social services contracts
There are three OBH state psychiatric hospitals providing acute, intermediate, and
specialized inpatient care; including one forensic division. During the summer of 2009,
the services previously provided at a fourth hospital, New Orleans Adolescent Hospital
(NOAH) were transferred under the umbrella of Southeast Louisiana Hospital (SELH). As
previously mentioned, with the closure of NOAH, two new clinics designed to address the
needs of Children and Adolescents in the New Orleans area were opened.
Note: Acute psychiatric inpatient units are short-term (generally less than 14-day)
programs utilized to stabilize persons in mental health persons showing emergency
need so as to return them back to community functioning as soon as possible. State
Psychiatric hospitals include an acute unit but generally provide more intermediate
to long-term length of care beyond the acute phase of a person‟s illness
PART C LOUISIANA FY 2011 PAGE 52
SECTION I: ADULT & CHILD/ YOUTH –DESCRIPTION OF STATE SERVICE SYSTEM
OVERVIEW, REGIONAL RESOURCES, LEADERSHIP