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At Lafayette Behavioral Health Unit, comprehensive care begins at the time of admission. The behavioral health unit was established through a partnership with the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals and Lafayette General Medical Center. This partnership secures quality of care and access to services for uninsured individuals in need of acute psychiatric care. Our skilled psychiatric and mental health professionals are trained and committed to assist patients in their self-discovery, learning and recovery process.
Why Choose Ochsner Lafayette Behavioral Health?
Lafayette Behavioral Health Unit is a 24-bed secure psychiatric inpatient facility that provides short-term hospitalization and treatment for individuals coping with an acute mental health disorder. Patients admitted to LBHU require a safe, secure and structured environment and an increased level of observation to stabilize their psychiatric symptoms.
Our multidisciplinary team consists of psychiatrists, general practitioners, nurses, social workers, a recreation therapist, dietitians, mental health technicians and other disciplines as determined by needs of the patient. The goals of treatment are to assess and stabilize, identify goals of treatment, patient and family education and community re-integration by incorporating discharge planning into the treatment process. Therapeutic programming is grounded in principles of recovery oriented care in which the patient is an active participant in their treatment and discharge planning.
Our services include:
- Psychiatric evaluation and examination
- Laboratory and diagnostic testing
- Comprehensive and multidisciplinary biopsychosocial evaluation
- Crisis intervention and stabilization of patient’s acute psychiatric symptoms
- Psychopharmacologic evaluation and management
- Activity therapy and patient education interventions
- Case management and collaboration with the patient’s outpatient clinician, physicians, family and community agencies to facilitate an integrated approach and comprehensive discharge plan
Criteria for admission:
- 18 years of age or older
- High risk of harm to self or others
- Acute onset or exacerbation of chronic psychiatric symptoms including depression, anxiety, mania, psychosis or acute stress responses requiring assessment and treatment in a secure environment.
- Medically cleared for admission
Contact Us
Nurses station: 337-289-8595
Patient phone: 337-289-8694
Fax: 337-289-8558
Visitors must bring an ID and be 12 years or older. Only two visitors are allowed at a time.
Visitors will not be allowed to bring in cell phones, purses, lighters or any item considered contraband. All visitors are subject to search. Visitors must have the patient's four-digit identification number, which can only be provided to you by the patient. Visitors must read and sign a confidentiality statement before visiting. In order for our patients to receive the maximum benefit during their stay with us, we ask that visitors adhere to these visitation policies and restrictions.
Our visiting hours are:
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Patient phone call times include:
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
5 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
