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, NOLA ...

Supporters say the hospital, which provides mental health and substance ... cease when the beds are transferred to Jackson and Pineville. Southeast Louisiana Hospital is also provides an economic ...

Officials purposefully put the hospital next to the state ... The other facility, Eastern Louisiana Mental Health System in Jackson Parish, focuses on people who have been deemed incompetent ...

Drivers passing through Jackson, La., on Highway 10 might think ... of approximately 4,000 people. Today, the hospital serves about 574 patients for mental health evaluation, treatment and ...

Authorities are investigating the death of a 19-year-old man found hanging in his room at the East Louisiana State Hospital in Jackson on Tuesday. Darnell Bailey, who was committed to the mental ...