The main building at Eastern Louisiana Mental Health System in Jackson, Louisiana, dates back to 1848, when it opened as the first state-operated mental health hospital. (Photo by Brett Duke ...

More than 20 percent of the patients at the Eastern Louisiana Mental Health System facilities in Jackson has contracted the novel coronavirus and six of them have died due to the illness ...

In Louisiana, they are usually remanded to the Eastern Louisiana Mental Health System (ELMHS) in Jackson, the state’s only forensic psychiatric facility. But there is no room at ELMHS ...

Testimony before a new Louisiana legislative panel Tuesday ripped the Band-Aid off the state’s ailing mental health care system. The bulk of the discussion centered on the maze patients in the ...

The 61 patients who are infected at the Eastern Louisiana Mental Health System facility represent less than 10% of the total patient population there, says Louisiana Department of Health (LDH ...

Proposal to include partial hospitalization services is moving forward, but only after lawmakers removed a key component to ...

(KTAL/KMSS) — A new study shows that Louisiana ... the behavioral health system in the state. The COVID-19 pandemic brought an increase in substance use disorders on top of mental health issues.

Mental health experts from across the ... mental illness who are stuck in the judicial system. Multiple law enforcement agencies in Southeast Louisiana also have CIT trained officers.St. Tammany ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A Louisiana health insurance agency is shining a light on the importance of maternal mental health as Mother’s Day approaches. Research shows that one in ...

Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre said Jeremiah Lee Wright, 30, was taken to the Eastern Louisiana Mental Health System facility in Jackson on Friday.Judge John Leblanc ordered Wright be held ...