The Advocate reports on mental health bed shortage in Baton Rouge
 

In our recent cover story on the mental health crisis in New Orleans, we spoke to Interim LSU Hospital's emergency director Dr. Peter DeBlieux, who said that the closure of a number of emergency beds as a result of LSU budget cuts:


<blockquote>"As we're having this conversation, I am down to 15 [emergency mental health beds]," DeBlieux says. "You know this is a misnomer.? [ Read more ]

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