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Hope and Healing, 24/7
If you or someone you care about is experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis, we are here to help.
The Bridge Center for Hope provides immediate, short-term care in a safe, supportive setting designed for healing. No referral or insurance is required. Anyone 18 or older can walk in and receive help right away.
How We Help
The Bridge Center for Hope is an inpatient facility dedicated to providing immediate stabilization and compassionate care for individuals aged 18 and older who are experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis. Our goal is to offer a safe, supportive environment where individuals can begin their path to recovery and wellness. We serve both voluntary and involuntary guests, ensuring that anyone in need of urgent help receives timely, professional support from our multidisciplinary team of behavioral health experts.
In partnership with Recovery Innovations, we use the proven Crisis Now model – an evidence-based approach to crisis care.
Our multidisciplinary team includes doctors, nurses, licensed mental health professionals, and peer support specialists (people with lived experience) to support your recovery. Every guest is treated with dignity, understanding, and respect.
The Bridge Center’s home-like setting is designed to feel warm and welcoming- a peaceful place to recover. Guests have a daily schedule that includes individualized counseling sessions, group therapy, medication management (if needed), and meaningful connections with peers who understand what they’re going through.
23-Hour Crisis Observation (Behavioral Health Crisis Center)
All guests arriving at the Bridge Center for Hope enter our 23-hour Observation service, which is designed for guests to stay 23 hours or less, and contains 16 recliner chairs set up for optimal observation. As part of this service, all of the initial assessments are conducted here, and guests are monitored every 15 minutes for acuity. Assessments and treatment include, but are not limited to, clinical assessments, nursing assessments, psychiatric evaluations, individual and group therapy sessions, and peer engagement.
As defined by the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH). Behavioral Health Crisis Centers (BHCC) are facility-based services that operate twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week, as a walk-in crisis center providing short-term behavioral health crisis intervention.
Crisis Observation Staffing
Recovery Innovations provides our excellent guest services team, comprised of doctors, nursing staff, and peers with lived experience. They weave recovery, clinical, and medical services together to provide a comprehensive care experience for guests.
Psychiatrist
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
Nurses
Nurses
Licensed Mental Health Professionals
Certified Peer Support Specialist
Milieu Specialist
Short-term Psychiatric (Crisis Stabilization)
Short-term psychiatric care is a bed-based unit designed for guests who require additional stabilization and treatment. Guest treatment includes a robust daily schedule that provides treatment sessions with licensed providers, individual and group therapy, and peer engagement.
As defined by the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH). Crisis Stabilization is a short-term, bed-based crisis treatment and support service for members who have received a lower level of care service and are at risk of hospitalization or institutionalization.
Short-term Psychiatric Staffing
The Recovery Innovations team comprises doctors, nursing staff, and peers with lived experience. They weave recovery, clinical, and medical services together to provide a comprehensive care experience for guests.
Psychiatrist
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
Nurses
Licensed Mental Health Professionals
Certified Peers Support Specialist
Milieu Specialist
Withdrawal Management & Detoxification
The Bridge Center for Hope also offers withdrawal management and detoxification services. The withdrawal management consists of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and medical detoxification services. MAT is specifically designed for guests who are being treated for opioid use and utilizes specialized medications. Medical detoxification services are for guests who require detoxification and treatment for non-opioid-related substances.
Care Management Team
The care management team is a peer navigation team that will assist guests post-discharge with ongoing peer support services and provide linkage for guests to outpatient services and appropriate community resources.
The Bridge Center offers numerous community resources to help guests who are discharged access appropriate levels of care throughout the community. You can also visit our community resource page for additional information.
Mobile Crisis Response
The Bridge Center’s Mobile Crisis Response Team offers in-person assistance for adults in East Baton Rouge Parish experiencing a mental health crisis. Calls are dispatched through 911 services, and a two-person team—a licensed behavioral health professional and a peer support specialist—arrives to de-escalate the situation, evaluate needs, and connect individuals with appropriate care.
The team’s goal is to stabilize crises within the community, prevent unnecessary ER visits or law enforcement involvement, and, when safe, provide transportation for those seeking voluntary services.
Mobile Crisis Response is available as an initial intervention for individuals in a self-identified crisis. This service is accessed through 911, and teams deploy directly to where the individual is located in the community.
Mobile Response Staffing
Recovery Innovations provides our excellent guest services team, comprised of doctors, nursing staff, and peers with lived experience. They weave recovery, clinical, and medical services together to provide a comprehensive care experience for guests.
Licensed Mental Health Professionals
Certified Peers Support Specialist
Get Help Now
Crisis can’t wait. We’re open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you or someone you care about needs help, come see us or call anytime.