St. Tammany Parish Opens Safe Haven Behavioral Health Crisis Receiving Center

Start Corporation and St. Tammany Parish in Louisiana opened the Safe Haven Crisis Receiving Center on the campus of the former Southeast Louisiana Hospital. The Crisis Receiving Center is a Level III facility with 23 short-stay beds, two nurses stations, a nourishment station, and other amenities. It provides identification, intervention and stabilization for those in a behavioral health crisis and provides an alternative to the emergency room or jail. The average stay is between 24 to 72 hours. The center is operated by the non-profit Start Corporation.

Opening the center was among the recommendations of a 2014 study . . .