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