Mental Health Care in New Orleans, LA

Metropolitan Human Services District: New Orleans East Behavioral Health Ctr

What Does Metropolitan Human Services District: New Orleans East Behavioral Health Ctr Offer?

Metropolitan Human Services District: New Orleans East Behavioral Health Ctr is a mental health facility at 5630 Read Boulevard, 2nd Floor, New Orleans, Louisiana, offering outpatient care and telehealth therapy. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare and state-financed insurance and offers payment assistance. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT and couples and family therapy. It offers walk-in psychiatric emergency services.

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5630 Read Boulevard, 2nd Floor
New Orleans, LA 70127

Listed in SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov, checked October 2026. A listing is not an endorsement. Call to confirm services, openings and costs before you go.

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Types of Care at Metropolitan Human Services District: New Orleans East Behavioral Health Ctr

  • Outpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • Community Mental Health Block Grants
  • Community Service Block Grants
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Other State funds
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
  • State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
  • Payment assistance (check with facility for details)

Crisis and Emergency Services

  • Crisis intervention team
  • Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Couples/family therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy

Who the Program Serves

  • Young adults
  • Seniors or older adults
  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
  • Ages: Children/Adolescents
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Medications Used

  • Fluphenazine
  • Haloperidol
  • Loxapine
  • Perphenazine
  • Aripiprazole
  • Brexpiprazole
  • Cariprazine
  • IIoperidone
  • Olanzapine
  • Paliperidone
  • Quetiapine
  • Risperidone
  • Ziprasidone
  • Nicotine replacement
  • Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
  • Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Housing services
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Intensive case management
  • Legal advocacy
  • Case management service
  • Integrated primary care services
  • Suicide prevention services
  • Education services
  • HIV testing
  • STD testing
  • TB screening
  • Metabolic syndrome monitoring
  • Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
  • Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
  • Laboratory testing

Before you commit, confirm openings, costs and the program's state license. How to find a therapist you can afford lists the questions to ask when you call, and mental health care in Louisiana lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near Metropolitan Human Services District: New Orleans East Behavioral Health Ctr

Measured by straight-line distance from this facility. See every listing on the New Orleans mental health care page.

Sources

  1. SAMHSA FindTreatment.gov listing data, checked October 2026
  2. About FindTreatment.gov (SAMHSA)

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