Mental Health Care in Shreveport, LA

Intensive Specialty Hospital

What Does Intensive Specialty Hospital Offer?

Intensive Specialty Hospital is a mental health facility at 1800 Irving Place, Shreveport, Louisiana, offering outpatient care, telehealth therapy, partial hospitalization and hospital inpatient care. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, TRICARE, state-financed insurance and self-pay. Therapy approaches include CBT and DBT. It offers walk-in psychiatric emergency services.

1800 Irving Place
Shreveport, LA 71101

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 Intensive Specialty Hospital

  • Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
  • Outpatient
  • Partial hospitalization/day treatment

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • County or local government funds
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
  • Other State funds
  • Private health insurance
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
  • State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
  • U.S. Department of VA funds

Crisis and Emergency Services

  • Psychiatric emergency onsite services
  • Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Activity therapy
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Who the Program Serves

  • Seniors or older adults
  • Veterans
  • Active duty military
  • Members of military families
  • Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Clients with HIV or AIDS
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
  • Persons with Alzheimer's or dementia
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Licensing and Accreditation

  • Federally Qualified Health Center

Medications Used

  • Chlorpromazine
  • Fluphenazine
  • Haloperidol
  • Aripiprazole
  • Clozapine
  • Lurasidone
  • Olanzapine
  • Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
  • 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
  • Case management service
  • 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 Intensive Specialty Hospital

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

Brentwood Hospital, Shreveport

1006 Highland Avenue, Shreveport, LA 71101 · 0.7 mi

318-678-7500

  • Outpatient care
  • Telehealth therapy
  • Partial hospitalization
  • Hospital inpatient care
  • DBT
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Private insurance
  • Walk-in crisis

Overton Brook VAMC, Shreveport

510 East Stoner Avenue, Room BS-66, Shreveport, LA 71101 · 1.4 mi

318-221-8411 x5441

  • Outpatient care
  • Telehealth therapy
  • Partial hospitalization
  • Hospital inpatient care
  • CBT
  • DBT
  • EMDR
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Private insurance
  • Payment help
  • Walk-in crisis

Sources

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

In crisis? Call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org, any time. If someone is in immediate danger, call 911. anxiety.help is an independent guide, not a mental health provider or crisis service, and doesn't give medical advice. For a free, confidential referral, call SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-4357.