Central Louisiana State Hospital (CLSH) is a free standing, full service psychiatric hospital by the State of Louisiana, fully accredited by The Joint Commission (TJC) and certified by the Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Services (CMS).

The hospital is licensed for 116 beds, and its primary focus is to provide intermediate inpatient psychiatric care to adults Louisiana residents in need of service.  

The Hospital is highly committed to cooperative work with other state agencies and with the state and regional mental health program to ensure the integration and coordination of hospital-community services into a comprehensive system of mental health care.

Treatment services provided by the Hospital include individual, group, and family therapy, recreational and occupational therapy, pharmacotherapy, speech and hearing therapy, nutritional counseling, dental services, pastoral care services, and limited diagnostic medical services.

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Mission and Values

The mission of CLSH is to provide quality, person centered care, with a focus on recovery and resiliency, in a safe and secure environment.  The hospital is highly committed to cooperative work with other state agencies and with the state and regional mental health program to insure the integration and coordination of hospital-community services into a comprehensive system of mental health care.

Program:

In order to meet the diverse needs of individuals from the patient population served, Central Louisiana State Hospital (CLSH) offers a variety of distinct inpatient treatment programs. Patients are grouped by gender into the Female and Male Services, each with two (2), twenty-nine (29) bed units. Each treatment program provides assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, therapeutic services, and discharge planning through multi-disciplinary teams.  

Treatment Services:

Our program offers a multi-disciplinary approach by way of an interdisciplinary treatment team to its patients in efforts to address their individual needs as effectively as possible. Upon a patient’s admission to the Program, the multi-disciplinary treatment team reviews available pre-admission and current evaluation data to determine the individual’s strengths and treatment needs.

The components of the patient’s treatment program will routinely include the following: Psychiatric Supervision, Psychiatric and Physical Medicine, Nursing Care, Psychiatric Aide Case Management, Community Meetings, Clinical Services (Activity Therapy, Psychology and Social Services) and the Adaptive Behavior Service (ABS) Behavior Modification Program. Referral to other treatment services will be made by the Treatment Team as needed.

The treatment team members will individually and collectively assess, identify problems that caused the patient to be admitted to CLSH, and develop a treatment plan with specific goals and objectives that are both observable and measurable to overcome those identifiable problems. Each treatment team member will develop interventions to perform that are designed to help the patient achieve the goals and objectives that have been developed and agreed upon between the treatment team and the patient.

Continuous Public Involvement:

Central Louisiana State Hospital (CLSH) is accredited by The Joint Commission. A main tenet of TJC's accreditation process is the provision of continuous, safe, high-quality patient care through continuous standards compliance. As such, continuous interaction between a health care organization and its public helps determine if it's meeting that goal.

The organization provides notices to its publics that when an individual has any concerns about patient care and safety in the organization, he or she is encouraged to contact the organization's management. If the concerns in question cannot be resolved at this level, the individual is to be encouraged by the organization to contact the Joint Commission (JTC).

The Joint Commission may be contacted in any of the following manners:

Mailing Address:

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
One Renaissance Boulevard
Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181

Telephone:

(630) 792-5800

Web Site:

• www.jointcommission.org