§ 28:20 A. The legislature hereby finds and declares that residents of Louisiana may require appropriate care for mental illness or developmental disabilities. However, the resources and sta
§ 28:21 A. For purposes of this Part, “state psychiatric hospital” refers to the hospital at Jackson, known as the Eastern Louisiana Mental Health System, and the hospital at Pineville, know
§ 28:21.1 A. The Louisiana Department of Health is authorized to accept indigent patients suffering from co-occurring substance-related or addictive disorders and to give such patients the car
§ 28:22 A. The Legislature of Louisiana finds that appropriate crisis identification and stabilization services, including a coordinated system of entry into the crisis system, is critical t
§ 28:22.5 A. Community behavioral health clinics are facilities operating as behavioral health services providers as defined in R.S. 40:2153 and licensed by the department pursuant to the prov
§ 28:22.6 Payment for maintenance or treatment
§ 28:22.7 A. The department may establish and administer geriatric hospitals or units to receive and care for persons who are elderly or infirm who have been discharged by a hospital for perso
§ 28:22.8 A. The names of the following state developmental centers for persons with developmental disabilities are designated as follows:
§ 28:22.9 The name of the Hammond Mental Health Center is changed to the Rosenblum Mental Health Center and under such name it shall continue to serve as an outpatient center for the care, tre
§ 28:23 The department may establish psychiatric inpatient units in state-owned or state-contracted general hospitals for the emergency and temporary care of cases of acute mental illness.
§ 28:25 A. At hospitals that it may designate, the department may provide facilities for the care and confinement of patients who have a mental illness and who require close confinement in t
§ 28:25.1 A. The forensic unit at Eastern Louisiana Mental Health System is hereby declared to be a separate and distinct facility from East Louisiana State Hospital and hereafter shall be kno
§ 28:25.2 A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, including any provision of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the administrator of the Feliciana Forensic Facility, in his

Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 28 > Chapter 1 > Part II - Facilities and Places for Behavioral Health Patients or Clients

  • Addictive disorder: is a primary, chronic neurobiologic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
  • administrator: means a person in charge of a treatment facility or his deputy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Behavioral health: is a term used to refer to both mental health and substance use. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
  • Client: refers to a recipient of services who has been charged with or convicted of a crime and who requires special protection and restraint in a forensic treatment facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Court: means any duly constituted district court or court having family or juvenile jurisdiction. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
  • Dangerous to others: means the condition of a person whose behavior or significant threats support a reasonable expectation that there is a substantial risk that he will inflict physical harm upon another person in the near future. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
  • Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Governmental entity: means any board, authority, commission, department, office, division, or agency of the state or any of its local political subdivisions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2402
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Law enforcement training course: means a basic or advanced course of study certified by the council on peace officer standards and training, for the purpose of educating and training persons in the skills and techniques required of a peace officer in the discharge of his duties. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2402
  • Local governing entity: means an integrated human services delivery system with local accountability and management and which provides behavioral health and developmental disabilities services through local human services districts and authorities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Patient: means any person detained and taken care of as a person who has a mental illness or person who is suffering from a substance-related or addictive disorder. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
  • Peace officer: means any employee of the state, a municipality, a sheriff, or other public agency, whose permanent duties actually include the making of arrests, the performing of searches and seizures, or the execution of criminal warrants, and is responsible for the prevention or detection of crime or for the enforcement of the penal, traffic, or highway laws of this state, but not including any elected or appointed head of a law enforcement department. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2402
  • person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
  • Psychiatrist: means a physician who has at least three years of formal training or primary experience in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Restraint: means the partial or total immobilization of any or all of the extremities or the torso by mechanical means for psychiatric indications. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
  • Transfer: means the removal of a patient from one mental institution to another without any procedure for admission other than is prescribed by the department. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
  • Treatment: means an active effort to accomplish an improvement in the mental condition or behavior of a patient or to prevent deterioration in his condition or behavior. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
  • Treatment facility: includes but is not limited to the following, and shall be selected with consideration of first, medical suitability; second, least restriction of the person's liberty; third, nearness to the patient's usual residence; fourth, financial or other status of the patient; and fifth, patient's expressed preference, except that such considerations shall not apply to forensic facilities:

                (i) Public and private behavioral health services providers licensed pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2

  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • water pollution control projects: means any waste treatment facilities or any plants or other works which accomplish the treating, stabilizing, or holding of untreated or inadequately treated sewage or other wastes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2321